About San
San Juanita Diaz is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 29 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, grief, or life changes. Her approach is grounded and direct so clients can start making small changes right away.
Diaz draws on a long career across many settings. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance. Her background includes work in nursing homes, outpatient clinics, vocational programs, women’s shelters, and substance abuse facilities.
Background and approach
She also spent 15 years providing counseling services connected to Child Protective Services. In sessions she emphasizes building a strong working relationship first. She focuses on understanding a person's daily struggles and practical barriers.
That helps set clear goals and steps that feel doable between appointments. Her work often includes helping people manage anxiety tied to big life transitions or chronic health problems. She also helps people who want to improve their relationship with themselves and find direction during midlife or after loss.
Diaz uses straightforward tools to change patterns that cause distress. Practical skills are part of her offer. Clients can expect discussion, short exercises to try at home, and realistic plans for coping when things get hard.
She communicates plainly and adjusts pace to each person's needs.
Approach and online options that fit your life
San Juanita Diaz uses client-centered work that puts your priorities first. This approach means sessions begin with listening and understanding what matters to you, then shaping goals around those priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test practical behavior changes; it is often used for anxiety, low mood, and coping with chronic illness. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on current strengths and small steps forward, which can be useful when someone wants clear, short-term goals.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Diaz will review your needs, preferences, and goals with you and try one or more methods to see what fits. She adjusts pace and techniques so work feels realistic and useful for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and support steady progress without added travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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