About Garland
Garland Willis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addictions, trauma, and life transitions. He writes and talks plainly and keeps sessions conversational. He aims to help people notice what matters, make clearer choices, and take small steps forward.
Garland spent years as a school principal before moving into counseling, and he also served in the military and ran a business.
Background and approach
That background shapes how he listens and organizes a plan. He draws on five years of counseling experience to support people with PTSD, compulsive behaviors, and struggles around work and purpose. In sessions he blends client-centered listening with practical cognitive-behavioral tools and solution-focused techniques.
Conversations focus on current problems and concrete changes people can try between meetings. He also uses trauma-focused methods when past hurt affects daily life. People can expect a respectful, empathetic tone and a casual style rather than formal lectures.
The therapist works with clear goals and a flexible plan you can change as progress is made. He encourages honest talk about feelings, behaviors, and patterns. Sessions often include thought records, goal-setting, and short experiments to test new habits.
Garland supports people dealing with family and parenting strains, obsessive or addictive patterns, and the stress that comes with career transitions. His aim is practical progress you can notice week to week.
Practical approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your perspective. In this approach the therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you find your own solutions. It is useful when you need a steady, respectful space to sort feelings and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and then tests new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps and gives practical exercises to try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach happens together. Garland will work with you to match methods to your goals, needs, and comfort level and will adjust the plan as you make progress. That collaborative process helps ensure the work stays focused on what you want to change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for a full face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets you share updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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