About Ana
Ana Manrique is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction-related struggles. She emphasizes empathy and respect and encourages clients to use their own strengths to make change. Ana speaks English and Spanish and brings nine years of professional experience to her work.
Her style is straightforward and supportive. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. She listens closely, helps clarify what matters most, and works with each person to set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Ana uses tools that fit the person's daily life rather than one-size-fits-all plans. Ana often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping habits. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people notice their values and take committed actions toward them.
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help manage stress and reactivity. Her sessions aim to strengthen emotional resources after trauma, loss, or major life change. She helps people repair communication problems, address relationship and intimacy-related issues, and manage caregiver stress or compassion fatigue.
Ana supports those dealing with grief, abandonment concerns, body image worries, and work-related strain. People who work with Ana can expect clear, hands-on suggestions and collaborative problem solving. She frames therapy as a partnership where the client’s goals lead the way.
Practical skills, steady encouragement, and real-world strategies are central to her approach.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Ana commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes in behavior to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ana will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit their life. She adjusts methods over time so the work matches what the person needs and what feels most helpful.
Online therapy lets people connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can work well for shorter check-ins, keeping momentum between longer meetings, or when someone prefers writing to talking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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