About Marcos
Marcos Villareal is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with 20 years of experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and the ripple effects of major life changes. He also supports those facing ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Marcos uses a straightforward, person-centered style. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps people can use between meetings. He listens for how emotions and past attachments shape current behavior, then helps clients try small changes and notice what works.
Background and approach
Therapy blends skills and conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps by identifying thought patterns that keep problems alive. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas are used to strengthen connection and repair trust in relationships.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers ways to move toward valued living even when hard feelings remain. His approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Marcos asks about daily routines, communication habits, and specific moments that cause pain.
Together with each person he outlines concrete strategies for coping, improving communication, and managing mood swings or impulsive behavior. Sessions can address a wide range of concerns from parenting and blended-family issues to body image, chronic illness stress, commitment and control problems, and kink-friendly relationship concerns. His goal is to help people build more balanced lives through steady, practical work in therapy.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck during life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It can help with mood management, stress, and impulsive behaviors tied to ADHD or addictions.
Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas guide work on relationships by identifying patterns from past connections that show up today. This helps people improve communication, rebuild trust, and handle intimacy-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Marcos will review your goals, symptoms, and preferences and suggest techniques to try. He adjusts methods as progress is made so therapy stays relevant to your life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to check in more often or to use shorter coaching-style moments between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English