About Destinee
Destinee Abrego is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, depression, and LGBT concerns. Her style centers on listening first and then working together to set clear, realistic goals.
She begins by building trust and a steady working relationship. Sessions are straightforward and focused on the person in front of her. Topics often include patterns that keep stress and anxiety alive, communication problems, codependency, and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
Destinee uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people meet goals. She incorporates client-centered work to prioritize each person’s perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts and behaviors that maintain problems, and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are layered in when helpful to increase awareness and motivation for change. She helps clients break complex issues into small, manageable steps. Typical concerns addressed include abandonment issues, attachment struggles, chronic pain and illness, and relationship conflict.
Sessions aim to strengthen skills for daily life - communication, commitment decisions, managing triggers, and coping with loss or separation. Destinee works with adults from her Texas practice and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and priorities, giving them space to describe what matters most and guiding sessions around their goals. This approach helps with relationship worries, identity concerns, and setting clear steps forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems like anxiety and depression going. It includes practical exercises and behavioral experiments people can try between sessions to test new ways of thinking and acting.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to communicate. Those skills are useful for intense emotions, relationship conflict, and impulse-related problems.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs and preferences, and adjust strategies based on what helps most. That means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy with Destinee is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for traditional sessions, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text provide quick check-ins or shorter touchpoints, and all formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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