About Veronica
Dr. Veronica Martin-Perkins uses an integrative, practical approach to help people manage anxiety and stress. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 25 years of experience in counseling and related work.
Her style is straightforward and focused on concrete skills that reduce daily distress. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and relationship problems. Sessions include talk, skill practice, and short home exercises so clients can try things between appointments.
Background and approach
The aim is to build routines and habits that ease worry and improve communication. Her background includes advanced graduate work in counseling and long experience in education and mental health. That mix informs a calm, structured approach that values both insight and practical change.
She also maintains knowledge of attachment patterns and trauma responses that often affect relationships and functioning. Common topics she addresses are abandonment concerns, attachment issues, caregiver stress, body image, and blended family challenges. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, aging issues, adoption and foster care questions, and co-occurring concerns like depression alongside anxiety.
Dr. Martin-Perkins combines cognitive and acceptance-based strategies with client-centered conversation. The focus is on helping each person set clear goals, try manageable steps, and track progress over time.
Her practice aims to help people feel steadier and more able to handle life’s pressures.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small, doable steps to reduce the power of worry and move toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviors interact and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy creates a respectful, listening space where the client’s own goals guide the work and the therapist follows the client’s lead.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will discuss what feels most helpful and try methods collaboratively, adjusting based on the client’s needs and goals. Sessions can include skill teaching, guided exercises, and brief homework so clients practice between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick reflections, tracking progress, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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