About Norma
Norma McCarthy is an LPC with 25 years of practice helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, accepting presence and focuses on practical ways to reduce overwhelm and build everyday coping skills. Her sessions begin with listening to what matters to each person.
She asks about current struggles, daily routines, and the goals a person wants to reach. From there she works with clients to build a simple plan of skills and strategies they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Norma draws on several well-known approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, and client-centered work. She adapts tools to fit busy lives, offering breathing and grounding techniques, thought-challenging exercises, and values-based actions. The aim is not just insight but things people can try right away.
She also focuses on relationship and attachment concerns, grief, trauma, mood disorders, and work-related burnout. That includes helping people who face caregiver stress, first responder strain, or the complex feelings that come after loss or separation. Norma provides services from her Texas practice in English.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose what works best for their schedule. Getting started is a step-by-step process that begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while staying focused on what matters to them. It uses simple exercises to build values-based actions that reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments, which can ease anxiety and panic symptoms through clear step-by-step practice. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy so people feel heard and understood while they decide what changes to make.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try tools to see what is most helpful. Adjustments are common so the plan evolves with progress and feedback.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone send quick updates, and text messaging supports shorter check-ins or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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