About Vanessa
Vanessa Garcia Navarrete is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, build self-esteem, and navigate career challenges. She also supports clients coping with life changes and problems with anger.
Her approach starts with listening. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while adapting conversations to each person's needs. Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward, with steps you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Vanessa draws on several therapies to match the issue at hand. She uses client-centered work to ground sessions in the client's priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to sort unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and solution-focused tools to set clear, reachable goals. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas may also be used to help regulate emotions and build stronger self-understanding.
She works with a wide range of concerns beyond the core specialties, including body image, caregiver stress, eating and food-related issues, family problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, and finding life purpose. Workplace stress, social anxiety, and challenges common in young adulthood are also within her areas of focus. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Vanessa will tailor a plan with you, adjusting pace and techniques as your needs evolve. The goal is steady, manageable progress toward clearer thinking and more satisfying daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's priorities and creates space for honest conversation; it helps when you want to be heard and to shape therapy around your goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage anger, or change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-focused ideas help identify and name strong emotions so you can respond to them more calmly and connect feelings to behaviors.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as different skills are tried and progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexible scheduling and different ways to check in. Video sessions are useful for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, written homework, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish