About Gloria
Gloria Gonzalez helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and major life changes. She works with issues like parenting strain, relationship challenges, grief, eating and body image concerns, anger, self-esteem, and career uncertainty. Gloria is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she offers services in English and Spanish.
Gloria builds each plan around the person she sees. She focuses on strengths and what each person values. Sessions emphasize practical skills clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Gloria aims to help people find clearer thinking and steadier coping when life feels overwhelming. Her style is flexible and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps people set concrete goals.
Depending on the need, she draws on client-centered conversations, cognitive tools to change unhelpful thoughts, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches for emotion regulation. Gloria has five years of experience working with diverse concerns that often overlap, such as trauma, addiction, parenting stress, and mood difficulties.
She has worked in settings that included involvement with child protective services and addiction supports, and she brings that practical background to one-on-one work. Sessions can be conducted in English or Spanish to match comfort with language.
The therapist encourages people to take small first steps toward change, such as identifying one manageable behavior to shift or one thought pattern to notice differently.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Gloria often draws from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral approaches to guide online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to what matters to the person and helping them explore choices without judgment. It helps when people need a supportive space to sort feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and problem behaviors by breaking tasks into small, doable experiments.
She may also use skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. These skills can help when intense emotions, self-destructive impulses, or relationship conflicts make daily life harder.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try out methods, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep using.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversations, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule work around family, job, or school commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish