Valerie Garcia (she/her)

LCSW
Accepting Clients

Hi! I am an LCSW licensed in Texas who specializes in working with anxiety, depression, stress management, childhood attachment, and trauma.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Texas

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

It is so difficult at times just to be a human. The global environment we are living in right now has become too much to bear for so many of us. Fear for our safety, fear for our health, fear for our livelihood, and crippling loneliness has plagued us for far too long. My purpose is to help each of us find a way to look inward at the areas within ourselves that need the most compassion, empathy, and understanding so we can manage the absolute unyielding mess the world offers us right now.

My Background and Approach

I firmly believe in the concept of a "multiplicity of the mind." There are many parts within our mind that are designed to control and protect us. My goal is to get to a place where we can develop coping skills on both a proactive and reactive level for anxiety and depression. This way, as we put out the fires of what causes us stress in the day-to-day, we can also dig deeper to see if there is any deeper inner healing we can do together. I specialize in Trauma-Informed Care and am proficient in my ability to accommodate my practice to meet many different life experiences.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am a firm believer in the Black Lives Matter movement, an active ally in the LGBTQ community, I support raising awareness for MMIW, I am an advocate for adoptees and former foster youth, and am a passionate intersectional feminist.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Attachment Theory Eclectic Therapy Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment Theory
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Couples Counseling
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Eclectic Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Family Systems
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Burnout Depression
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Adoption Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Bipolar
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Chronic Pain or Illness
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Divorce
  • Eating Disorders
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief or Loss
  • Infertility
  • Insomnia
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Parenting
  • Personality Disorders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Self-Esteem
  • Spirituality
  • Teen Issues
  • Women's Issues
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Christianity
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 7 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $50 - 100/session

Reach out to Valerie