About Norma
Norma Beardwood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 41 years of experience in mental health work. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, and supports adults who face depression, trauma, eating and relationship concerns. Norma takes a warm, respectful approach and meets people where they are in life.
Her practice emphasizes clear, practical steps people can use between sessions. She uses client-centered methods to listen closely and make space for each person's goals.
Background and approach
Norma also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. Norma has worked in outpatient settings and with local psychiatric services during her career. That experience informs her ability to help people managing mood shifts, bipolar concerns, grief, and the aftermath of trauma.
She also addresses issues around body image, eating and food-related problems, and women's wellness topics. In sessions she focuses on building a collaborative relationship based on straightforward communication. People can expect practical strategies, skills practice, and conversation that links daily life to therapeutic goals.
She pays attention to issues like communication problems, codependency, and forgiveness. Norma offers online options including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Conversations begin with a short intake and matching process so scheduling can fit each person's needs.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person says. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects back concerns, and helps clarify goals so sessions feel relevant and personal. This approach is useful for people who want to be heard and to shape their own therapy.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical steps to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be useful for anger, trauma responses, and difficulties with mood swings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods in collaboration with each person. That way the plan reflects what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online therapy makes these methods more flexible. Video calls allow real-time conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, tracking homework, or getting support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 41 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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