About Kathy
Kathy Garza is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and issues with self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue and related challenges. Kathy approaches work with a straightforward, practical style aimed at real change.
Kathy draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people recognize unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. Sessions focus on simple skills you can use between meetings, like experimenting with new routines and shifting negative thinking.
Background and approach
She treats clients as experts in their own lives and builds on existing strengths. Her practice includes attention to life events such as adoption and foster care challenges, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, immigration-related stress, and struggles with guilt or shame. Kathy also assists with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Conversations are aimed at small, achievable steps rather than long theoretical talks. Kathy has three years of professional experience as an LPC in Texas. She values clear communication and practical tools, and she encourages people to try approaches that fit their daily lives.
Expect a calm, direct tone and a focus on what works for you. People who choose her work together to set short-term goals and track progress. Kathy helps plan manageable changes and checks in on what’s helping and what needs adjusting.
Evidence-Informed Care and Online Options
Many of Kathy's sessions draw on cognitive behavioral approaches, which help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. This approach is practical and goal-oriented, suitable for stress, panic, and low mood.She also uses problem-solving techniques that focus on breaking larger issues into manageable steps. These techniques help with caregiver strain, chronic illness challenges, and everyday overwhelm by creating small, doable plans and tracking progress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathy works with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts methods as progress is reviewed together.
Online therapy with Kathy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins and reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care across distances.
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What this counselor works with
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- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English