About Ana
Ana Ortiz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She has worked as a rehab counselor, advocate, and therapist supporting people through a wide range of concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and uses approachable, practical talk to help clients move forward.
Her background includes work with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addiction. She has supported those dealing with chronic pain and brain injury, as well as relationship and parenting stress.
Background and approach
This range shapes how she tailors conversations to real life problems. Ana blends several therapeutic styles and adapts to each person’s needs. Sessions are warm and interactive.
She focuses on creating clear goals and step-by-step ways to reach them. In practice she uses techniques from attachment-based work and client-centered listening to build trust. She pairs those with cognitive-behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for managing emotions.
This mix can be used for anxiety, coping with life changes, and relationship concerns. Her sessions are practical and direct. People can expect to talk about what is happening now, learn skills to cope better, and try exercises between sessions.
Ana aims to help clients find small, sustainable changes that add up over time.
How Ana's Approaches Work Online
Ana uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships and why they feel stuck. This approach looks at connection and trust, and can be useful when anxiety or relationship problems come from past hurts.She also uses client-centered work which centers on listening and following the person's concerns. That approach makes room for people to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and helps clarify what matters most.
Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Ana will work with each person to see what fits. She discusses goals and preferences up front and adjusts plans as needs change. That collaboration helps shape whether more skill-building, emotion work, or attachment focus is used.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing written work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life without sacrificing continuity.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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