About Dina
Dina Garza is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She works with adults facing mood changes, addictions, grief, and life transitions. Dina aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person’s story.
Dina listens for strengths that a person already uses. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and builds on what is already working.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that connect to daily life. Her sessions mix practical strategies and reflective work. She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to increase calm, and trauma-focused tools for people coping with past hurt.
She also uses solution-focused methods to help clients find concrete next steps. Dina brings eight years of clinical experience from practice in Texas. As an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - she draws on that background to offer straightforward, goal-oriented care.
She helps people work through issues like body image, attachment concerns, chronic illness, and communication problems. People who contact her can expect a collaborative pace. Dina guides conversations toward workable changes and skills that can be practiced between sessions.
She encourages questions and adjusts techniques to fit individual needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Many of Dina's methods translate well to online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against reality to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. It often includes practical exercises to practice between sessions.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. It can help people struggling with stress, sleep problems, or intrusive thoughts. Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on helping people process and make sense of past harmful experiences while building coping skills for the present.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Dina will collaborate with each person to decide what methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adapts techniques over time and checks in regularly to see what is helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the conversation feel similar to an in-person visit. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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