About San
San Juanita Diaz is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with 29 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, and major life transitions. Her style is warm and practical, and she aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful.
She commonly helps people living with chronic illness and those who want a better relationship with themselves. San Juanita also addresses grief, anger, addictions, parenting challenges, career stresses, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She draws on long experience across many settings to meet people where they are. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in counseling and guidance. Over her career she has worked in nursing homes, outpatient clinics, vocational programs, women’s shelters, and substance abuse facilities.
She also provided counseling to families involved with Child Protective Services for 15 years. In sessions she emphasizes a person-centered approach. That means listening first, then tailoring practical steps like cognitive behavioral techniques or solution-focused strategies when useful.
Her aim is to build a working relationship that feels supportive and respectful. People can expect direct conversation about concrete goals. San Juanita uses techniques such as coping skills, thought work, and short-term problem solving to address immediate concerns while also attending to deeper patterns.
She invites people to name priorities and tests approaches that fit their life and values.
Approach-driven care available online
San Juanita uses a person-centered style that begins with listening and understanding what matters most to the person. This approach helps anyone who wants a respectful space to talk through stress, life transitions, or ongoing struggles with self-regard.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, unhelpful thinking patterns, and for building concrete coping skills. Solution-focused therapy is another tool she draws on - it concentrates on short-term goals and practical steps people can take right away to feel better and move forward.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. San Juanita will ask about goals, daily life, and what has or hasn't helped before making recommendations. Together the therapist and client try methods, adjust them, and track progress so the work fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English