Maricruz Valdez, LPC

Maricruz Valdez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical experience based in Texas. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, depression, and trauma. Maricruz speaks English and Spanish and uses practical methods to help people move forward.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), client-centered approaches, mindfulness, existential ideas, and motivational interviewing. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused. Clients will work on clearer thinking, realistic problem solving, and building daily habits that reduce distress.

Maricruz adapts tools to each person's life. She listens first, then helps set small, doable steps. This can include thought records, mindfulness exercises, and values-based decision making. The work often mixes skills practice and reflective conversation.

Her background includes individual and group work across age ranges and relationship situations. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping people find meaning and purpose. Maricruz also incorporates faith-based perspectives when clients want that included.

Therapy sessions can address parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, attachment concerns, body image, communication problems, and issues around infidelity or immigration. People who prefer conversational, practical therapy that connects thoughts, feelings, and actions often feel comfortable with her approach.

How therapy approaches translate online

Maricruz uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT focuses on practical steps such as thought records, activity planning, and testing assumptions to reduce distress.

She also uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes listening and collaboration. This method helps people feel heard while they name values and goals, and it supports building motivation and self-compassion.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, values, and daily life. That means adjusting tools over time and combining strategies like mindfulness practice with skill work when it helps.

Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions can be a lighter check-in when time or bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit quick updates or brief coping support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or childcare schedules while keeping the work consistent and focused.