About Maricruz
Maricruz Valdez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. Maricruz offers support in both English and Spanish and adapts her approach to each person's needs.
She draws on client-centered methods that place the person's goals at the center of sessions. Maricruz also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people recognize and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Her work includes mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to build small, sustainable changes. In sessions she pays attention to attachment concerns, abandonment issues, and communication problems that often underlie relationship difficulties. She also addresses control issues, jealousy, infidelity, and body image concerns when these affect someone’s daily life.
Maricruz is comfortable talking about immigration-related stress and financial worries as they relate to mental health. Her style is practical and down-to-earth. She listens first, then offers tools people can try between sessions.
Discussions are paced to match each person's readiness for change and personal values. Maricruz works through a mix of one-on-one and messaging formats, so people can pick what fits their routine. She uses a subscription model for sessions, and the subscription can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Maricruz blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness practices to help people make steady progress. Client-centered therapy means sessions begin with the person’s priorities and values, offering space to be heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises that can ease anxiety and improve emotional regulation.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, comfort level, and daily life. Approach and pace can shift over time as needs change, so treatment planning is flexible and responsive.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a quick verbal check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter updates, practical problem-solving, or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish