About Carlos
Carlos Castillo is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. He brings three years of counseling experience and a calm, practical approach to sessions. He speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy easy to follow for people feeling overwhelmed.
Carlos focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and addiction concerns. He also helps with self-esteem, anger, grief, sleep troubles, and major life changes like career shifts or caregiving. He frames problems in everyday terms and works with clear goals rather than vague plans.
Background and approach
In session he listens first and asks practical questions. The first meeting is used to get to know each person and set simple, measurable goals. From there he uses conversational techniques and concrete steps to support change.
He often draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral tools, and motivational interviewing to meet needs in different ways. That means clients can expect empathy, help identifying unhelpful thoughts, and coaching to build motivation and new habits. Carlos has experience supporting people through transitions such as retirement, immigration, and serious illness, and he pays attention to cultural background and life context.
He aims to help people reduce unwanted habits, improve relationships, and reach practical goals one step at a time.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist stays curious and follows the client's lead to identify what matters most and what goals feel realistic.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
Motivational Interviewing is a coaching style that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful for addictions, building healthy habits, and moving through life transitions by strengthening motivation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods based on each person's needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which tools to try and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations, phone can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging allow for quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above to address anxiety, stress, and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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