About Pedro
Pedro Lora is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life transitions. He speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for those feeling overwhelmed. He focuses on helping adults sort through decisions, cope with change, and manage emotions that interfere with daily life.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on understanding what is happening now and what can change next.
Background and approach
Pedro uses approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused methods. He blends these styles to match each person's needs, emphasizing clear steps and skills people can try between sessions.
He has 19 years of experience in mental health and a background that includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Mental Health from the University of Texas at San Antonio. That experience includes supporting people dealing with grief, relationship strain, workplace stress, parenting concerns, and substance-related problems.
In sessions he listens for strengths, helps set realistic goals, and offers tools to manage anxiety, mood shifts, or addictive urges. Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer work on trauma and patterns that keep people stuck.
People who choose him can expect a direct, compassionate approach that aims to build coping skills and restore a sense of control over daily life.
How Pedro's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist offers support, reflects back what he hears, and helps people name values and goals to move forward. This approach can help when someone needs validation and clarity before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses specific exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood swings. Clients often try small experiments between sessions to test what works.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful for addictions, readiness for change, and commitment issues because it draws out personal motivation rather than pushing advice.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions stay useful and focused on real-life steps.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, flexible communication. 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
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish