About Stella
Stella Rodriquez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 24 years of experience based in Texas. She helps people facing stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Stella aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and nonthreatening.
Stella creates a welcoming space where people can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals rather than jargon.
Background and approach
She encourages small changes that add up over time and helps clients notice what’s working. Her work often includes addressing communication problems, codependency, and the strain that comes with caregiving. She also supports people dealing with divorce, infidelity, isolation, grief around end-of-life, immigration stress, and issues common to first responders.
Stella pays attention to cultural context and multicultural concerns in therapy. She uses methods grounded in evidence-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, narrative work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. When relationship problems are central, she draws on the Gottman Method for concrete communication and repair strategies.
Stella describes therapy as a collaborative process. She partners with each client to set priorities and adjust the plan as progress happens. Her goal is to help people build lasting skills for managing mood, reducing anxiety, and improving relationships.
How therapy methods fit into online care
Stella often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical and goal oriented, and it can help with anxiety, mood concerns, and stress management. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style skills teach concrete ways to cope with strong feelings and improve interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose or blend approaches that best match those priorities. Sessions can be adjusted over time as progress is made and new issues arise.
Online appointments are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or when a shorter contact is preferred. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping regular support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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