About Sergio
Sergio Fernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 26 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship problems. Sergio aims to make therapy straightforward and usable for everyday life.
He uses clear, goal-oriented methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Sessions often include talking through recent difficulties, identifying small steps to try, and tracking what works.
Background and approach
The approach is collaborative - clients set the priorities and Sergio offers tools to meet them. Sergio has long experience supporting people after trauma and abuse, and he helps those managing mood issues such as bipolar disorder. He also supports people with parenting strain, caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and work-related pressures.
Common themes he helps with include self-esteem, communication, and coping with life changes. In therapy he blends cognitive behavioral ideas with solution-focused and trauma-focused approaches. That means sessions can move between examining thought patterns, planning short-term changes, and working through past hurts at a pace that feels right.
The style is direct but compassionate, aimed at creating skills that carry into daily life. Sergio offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. He works in English and practices under his Texas LPC credential.
If someone is ready to begin, they can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How Sergio uses CBT and Trauma-Focused work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different responses. It helps with anxiety, stress, depression, and managing daily symptoms by teaching practical skills you can use between sessions.Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on helping people process and recover from traumatic experiences. It often involves pacing work so memories and reactions feel more manageable and teaching tools to reduce intense reactions over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sergio will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then test methods that fit. He adjusts pace and technique based on feedback so the work suits the person's life and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy days or different comfort levels. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or fit brief check-ins into hectic schedules. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and apply new skills in everyday situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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