About Gloria
Gloria Cooper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who brings 15 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and other emotional struggles. Gloria uses practical methods to help clients notice patterns and make changes that fit their lives.
She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people recognize and shift unhelpful thoughts that fuel depression, anxiety, or anger.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior strategies are combined when emotions feel overwhelming or cycles of conflict keep repeating. Gloria also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-focused work to strengthen values, emotional connection, and day-to-day coping. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Gloria aims for a calm, nonjudgmental tone where people can talk openly about what matters most. She helps set small, manageable steps so progress feels realistic and steady. Her experience includes a wide range of concerns such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting stress, self-harm, sexual assault and abuse, hoarding, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, personality concerns, jealousy, and multicultural issues.
She adapts tools to each person’s situation rather than using a single method for everyone. Gloria works with English-speaking clients in Texas and offers online formats to connect. The therapy process begins with discussing immediate priorities, then building skills and supports that fit each person’s daily life.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Gloria uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and often focuses on tasks between sessions, which works well across video, phone, and messaging formats. Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing reactive behaviors; those skills can be practiced and reviewed in short online check-ins or longer video sessions.She also incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and commit to small changes aligned with what matters. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Gloria will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily demands so therapy feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls allow more in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited and are good for focused check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter updates, practicing skills between sessions, or when someone needs regular brief support. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English