About Maria
Maria Rangel-Gomez is a bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 16 years of experience to sessions. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression.
She aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for people who are nervous or unsure. She encourages honest, straightforward conversations about what is hard right now. Sessions focus on noticing patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She helps people try small, practical changes and build skills to manage strong emotions and difficult memories. Maria often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients name unhelpful thoughts and test out different ways of thinking. She also draws on trauma-focused approaches when painful experiences need careful attention and processing.
Her goal is to tailor methods to what a person needs, not to force a single technique. Her background includes many years working with people facing relationship strain, family-of-origin concerns, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to life transitions. She also has experience with issues like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and adjusting after military-related experiences.
Maria works in a direct but compassionate way. She supports people as they set realistic goals and try new ways of coping. The emphasis is on steady progress and practical steps that fit each person's life.
Approaches for online work and trauma care
Maria uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments you can try between sessions to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful habits.She also uses trauma-focused therapy when past hurt needs careful attention. That approach helps people process difficult memories and reduce the strong emotional reactions tied to those events, while pacing the work so it feels manageable.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will work with each person to decide whether CBT, trauma-focused work, or a mix makes the most sense based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences. The plan can change as people try strategies and learn what helps.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people see facial cues and do deeper work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish