About Marina
Marina Escobar is a bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She brings eight years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and sleep problems. Marina focuses on practical steps people can use each day to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She speaks English and Spanish and works with adults across a range of life challenges. Marina emphasizes a team approach. She works alongside people to identify strengths and to build skills that reduce distress.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused, with attention to what feels doable between meetings. Her work often addresses parenting strain, relationship and communication problems, addiction-related concerns, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing major life changes, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Clinically, Marina draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered therapy, among other methods. She blends these approaches to match each person’s needs, using mindfulness, behavioral tools, and emotion-focused work when appropriate. People can expect a compassionate, practical style that balances empathy with skill-building.
Marina invites clients to move at a pace that feels manageable while working toward clearer priorities and better everyday coping.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. CBT is often used for stress, sleep problems, and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center and uses empathy and validation to support change; it works well when someone needs space to process grief, loss, or emotional overwhelm.Figuring out which approach fits best is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose techniques and adjust them as progress is made, combining mindfulness, skill practice, and emotion-focused work when appropriate.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to exchange brief updates, practice skills between sessions, or check in on hard days. These options help people fit therapy into real life while using the approaches described above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish