About Ana
Ana Garcia is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She offers care in both English and Spanish and focuses on stress and anxiety among other concerns. Her approach is straightforward and person-focused.
She aims to make first steps feel doable for someone who is worried. Ana draws on client-centered work to build a nonjudgmental space. She invites people to talk about their thoughts and feelings and listens closely before suggesting changes.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify patterns of thinking that worsen anxiety and stress and to try practical, testable changes in daily life. Her experience includes supporting people dealing with attention deficit and hyperactivity symptoms and with low self-esteem. She helps clients facing depression, life transitions, parenting strain, and relationship or communication problems.
Ana also addresses body image, impulsivity, social anxiety and phobia, young adult issues, and questions about life purpose. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. Ana emphasizes small, achievable steps and skills that can be used between sessions.
She encourages people to notice progress even when it feels slow. Clients meet with a licensed counselor who combines listening with tools for change. Ana’s style is warm and direct, and she invites clients to name goals and choose what to work on together.
Her faith is personally important and she often expresses hope and encouragement in sessions.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Ana combines client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions so people get both listening and practical tools. Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an accepting, nonjudgmental space where a person can speak freely and identify what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs to process emotions, build self-esteem, or work through interpersonal problems.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, social fears, and low mood because it breaks problems into manageable steps and skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, daily life, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there the plan is shaped collaboratively so techniques fit the client’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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