About Norma
Norma Beardwood is a Licensed Professional Counselor who draws on many approaches to help people through hard times. She brings 41 years of experience and a steady, straightforward manner to sessions. Norma works from Texas and conducts therapy in English.
She focuses on common and serious stresses people face, including anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, anger, self-esteem, career changes, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Eating and body-image issues, postpartum mood changes, and compassion fatigue are listed among her specialties. Norma uses methods that help people make sense of thoughts and feelings and then try practical changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns that keep problems going.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for intense emotions and better interpersonal effectiveness. She also uses client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to meet people where they are and encourage step-by-step change. Mindfulness approaches are woven in when slowing down and noticing the present moment helps reduce reactivity.
This combination aims to make therapy both practical and personally relevant. Norma has worked in standalone offices and with psychiatric facilities over decades. Her long experience means she has seen a wide range of concerns and has adapted methods to fit each person’s needs.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect people to the right option for video, phone, chat, or messaging sessions.
How Norma’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work begins by listening to what matters most to the person and shaping sessions around their goals and values. This helps clarify priorities and guides which skills to practice next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting thought and behavior patterns that keep problems alive and testing small changes to see what helps. It is useful for anxiety, depression, eating-related issues, and adjusting routines.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving communication, and tolerating distress. Those skills can reduce fights, impulsive reactions, and overwhelming moods.
Norma treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clear. This keeps therapy flexible and tailored to real-life needs.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets conversations feel more like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support ongoing reflection between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options make regular work on goals easier to arrange around daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English