About Sergio
Sergio Fernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of clinical experience in Texas. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. Sergio uses straightforward methods to help clients find practical ways forward.
He approaches therapy in a collaborative, down-to-earth way. Sessions explore how current problems started and what keeps them going. He helps people build skills to cope with strong emotions, improve communication, or handle life transitions.
Background and approach
Sergio uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that increase distress. He also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set small, realistic goals and identify steps that quickly make daily life easier. For those affected by past harm, he applies Trauma-Focused Therapy to process memories and reduce their impact on today's life.
Over more than two decades he has worked with a wide range of concerns, including grief, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders. He tailors sessions to the person in front of him rather than following a fixed routine. Practical tools and short-term skill building are common features of his work.
People who prefer different formats can meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sergio aims to help people leave sessions with clear next steps and manageable strategies for the week ahead.
How Sergio Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Online work with Sergio draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy to address both current symptoms and past experiences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Trauma-Focused Therapy guides gentle processing of difficult memories so they interfere less with daily life.Choosing the right method is part of the process. Sergio will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. He treats this as a collaboration - adjustments are made based on how things feel and what is helpful in practice.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or when someone needs flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English