About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Barrera-Sepulveda uses a client-centered approach to guide people toward clearer choices and calmer days. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with more than two decades of experience. She listens closely and helps people find practical steps they can use right away.
Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction concerns. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, sleep problems, anger, bipolar mood challenges, and the effects of ADHD.
Background and approach
Additional areas she addresses include coping after disasters, domestic violence, sexual assault, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose. Elizabeth has practiced in inpatient and outpatient behavioral health settings and has offered crisis counseling in shelters for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
That background includes group work and individual support for people facing suicidal thinking, substance use struggles, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. She draws on hands-on experience when she helps people rebuild routines and safety after hard events. Her sessions aim to combine client-centered listening with solution-focused planning and cognitive behavioral techniques.
She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, test small changes, and set realistic goals. Motivational interviewing also informs her work when people want to change habits like substance use. Elizabeth earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Counseling from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
She practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English. With many years in the field, she focuses on clear steps that people can use to feel steadier in daily life.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a plan from their goals. In online sessions this means the therapist listens actively and helps the person set priorities they feel ready to work on.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect. Online CBT sessions break problems into concrete steps - noticing unhelpful thoughts, testing new actions, and tracking small wins to reduce anxiety or depression.
Trauma-focused methods concentrate on safety, stabilization, and processing hard memories at a pace the person can tolerate. These techniques are useful for post-traumatic stress, recovery after violence, and similar concerns and can be adapted to work over video or phone.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or camera use is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coping tools between sessions, and scheduling quick updates. These options help people fit care into busy days and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English