About Medina
Medina Thomas uses a client-centered approach to help people work through stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas with nine years of experience in outpatient mental health. Medina aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what feels hardest right now.
Her sessions focus on practical tools and steady support. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques and motivational interviewing are used to set small, achievable steps toward change. Medina draws on a long history in healthcare alongside her recent years in outpatient mental health. That background gives her familiarity with chronic illness, caregiving stress, and the ways medical issues can affect mood.
She uses that perspective when addressing chronic pain, illness, or aging-related stress. She also works with people facing attachment and relationship patterns, abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and personality-related worries such as avoidant or dependent tendencies. Practical communication skills and clearer boundaries are common goals in her work.
Sessions begin by building rapport and mapping a client's history and goals. From there, she and the client co-create a roadmap with measurable steps and skills practice between meetings. The emphasis is on steady progress, not quick fixes, so people leave sessions with concrete next steps and a clearer sense of direction.
How her approaches fit online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflects concerns, and helps the client set goals that matter to them. This approach works well for people feeling overwhelmed or uncertain about next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is practical and skill-based, which translates neatly to online sessions where homework and thought records can be reviewed together. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety, and these short practices can be guided during a call or sent as brief audio exercises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. This collaborative process means techniques may shift over time to match changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and skills practice, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins or processing between appointments, and messaging allows short updates and coaching over days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English