About Alberto
Alberto Figueroa is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with 12 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and concerns around self-esteem and motivation. He also supports those facing addiction, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, and LGBT-related concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Alberto aims for a direct and respectful approach. He listens first, then helps shape a plan that fits each person's life and goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and grounded, with clear steps to try between sessions. He adapts pacing and communication to match how a person prefers to work. His work draws on methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
He also uses client-centered conversations and mindfulness skills to help people notice patterns and make small changes. Dialectical behavior ideas are applied when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Alberto has spent over a decade in clinical settings in Texas, which gives him experience with many situations people bring to therapy.
He treats concerns related to career stress, caregiving strain, aging questions, and coping after major life events. He approaches each case without judgment and with focused practical steps. If someone is considering online work, Alberto offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session that fits the person's routine.
How Alberto’s approaches fit online therapy
Alberto uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward a life that matters to them. ACT focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match personal goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and gives concrete skills for reducing symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-centered work shapes sessions around the person's experience, offering empathy and support as changes are explored.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. Alberto will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different ideas. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and guided exercises. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, between-session coaching, or people who prefer typed conversation. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, caregiving, and other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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