About Norma
Norma Clark is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience helping adults face anxiety and other stressors. She practices in Texas and blends practical skills with steady listening. Norma focuses on helping people handle life disruptions so they can feel calmer day to day.
She uses straightforward, hands-on methods to address problems like anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, and substance use. Sessions often include goal-setting, skills practice, and steps to manage intense feelings.
Background and approach
She also works with issues tied to relationships, grief, parenting, and career strain. Norma draws from client-centered work to keep conversations focused on each person’s goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are taught for managing strong emotions and improving focus. Her background includes individual and group therapy in crisis and trauma settings. Over the years she has used creative tools such as writing, art, and movement alongside talk therapy when useful.
This variety helps when people feel stuck or when traditional talk alone isn’t enough. In sessions she listens without judgment and helps clients find practical steps forward. The aim is to identify root issues, build coping tools, and stabilize mood and behavior so everyday life becomes more manageable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Norma commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy during online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so clients can set their own goals and find their path forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and actions interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety and low mood.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness to help manage intense emotions. DBT skills teach ways to tolerate distress, regulate feelings, and improve relationships. Mindfulness practices support attention and reduce reactivity in daily life. Choosing the right mix of these approaches is a collaborative process - the therapist and client review goals, try methods, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for deep conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone work can fit a shorter check-in or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief reflections, skill reminders, or when flexibility matters most. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
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