About Cecilia
Cecilia Clowdus is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or major life changes. Cecilia works with clients on issues like trauma, self-esteem, grief, and compulsive behaviors.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people name what matters and set clear, manageable goals. Sessions often involve learning practical skills for managing panic, mood swings, or strong emotions.
Background and approach
Cecilia draws on several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to identify thought patterns, and from acceptance-focused methods to clarify values and increase psychological flexibility. She also applies emotion-focused strategies to improve how people connect with their feelings.
Many clients come with complex histories such as trauma, adoption and foster care concerns, or family of origin issues. Cecilia addresses related topics like abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, and substance use with steady guidance and concrete coping techniques. Therapy also covers everyday pressures such as parenting strain, workplace stress, body image struggles, and navigating relationship conflicts.
Cecilia helps people build skills for impulse control, healthier boundaries, and more reliable routines. To begin, she works with each person to pick approaches that fit their goals. Sessions can include talk work, behavioral experiments, emotion processing, and homework that connects therapy to daily life.
How specific approaches work in online therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. Online CBT often includes tracking thought patterns, trying small behavioral changes, and reviewing results together to build better daily habits.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes identifying personal values and taking actions that match those values, even when uncomfortable feelings appear. In remote sessions this can involve values clarification exercises, mindfulness practices, and step-by-step goal setting to move toward a meaningful life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to test methods and adjust over time based on what helps most. Clients are encouraged to share preferences so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotion work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and homework reminders. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule while trying different tools and strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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