About Maria
Maria Rangel-Gomez is a bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence for people ready to make changes. Her approach is practical and straightforward, focused on what a person needs now.
She has 16 years of experience working with concerns such as relationships, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Maria supports people dealing with abandonment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems.
Background and approach
She also addresses challenges like commitment and control issues, divorce or separation, and life-purpose questions. In sessions she aims to create an open space for sharing thoughts and feelings. Maria uses clear techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that keep worries and unhelpful behaviors in place.
She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process difficult experiences at a pace that feels manageable. Conversations are collaborative and goal-oriented. Maria works with clients to set small, achievable steps and practices they can try between meetings.
Her style is supportive and practical, emphasizing tools that people can use in daily life. For Spanish speakers she can hold sessions in Spanish. Therapy is offered through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability.
Online approaches for anxiety and trauma care
Maria uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits. CBT sessions often include short exercises and practical steps that people can try between appointments to reduce worry and improve daily functioning.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process painful memories and the ways those experiences affect current feelings and behavior. This approach moves at a persons pace and focuses on making distressing memories less disruptive over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maria collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, while phone calls can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow short exchanges and ongoing support between sessions. These options add flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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