About Vanessa
Vanessa Longoria-Carter meets people where they are and helps them take the next step. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, eating and body-image concerns, relationship and intimacy struggles, and stress related to work and life changes. She holds LPCC and LMFT credentials and has 13 years of professional experience in clinical and coaching roles.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance. She also draws on EMDR for processing traumatic memories when that feels appropriate. Sessions focus on clear goals and real-life skills.
Conversations are tailored to each person - no one-size-fits-all plans. Vanessa helps people develop routines for sleeping, eating, and coping that fit daily life and responsibilities. She also supports career and executive coaching needs, offering strategies for workplace stress, communication, and boundary setting.
Her work includes attention to attachment, adoption and foster care issues, and challenges like dissociation and chronic illness. Vanessa provides online sessions from Texas in English. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an initial session.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include concrete homework, thought records, and skill practice between meetings to track progress and build new habits.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills can be practiced in real time during video or messaging sessions and then applied to daily situations like workplace stress or relationship conflicts.
EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps process painful memories and reduce their emotional impact. When appropriate, elements of EMDR can be adapted for online work, with careful pacing and collaboration about readiness and comfort.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals, symptoms, and preferences and recommend methods that fit the client's situation. Clients can try different techniques and adjust the plan as they learn what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use the methods that work best for each person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Kentucky
- Languages
- English