About Ana
Ana Ortiz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She combines practical skills with a warm, direct style. People come to her for help when life feels overwhelming or habits stop working for them.
She listens first and learns what matters to each person. Sessions focus on real problems like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and ADHD. Ana also helps with substance concerns, relationship strain, body image, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools and attachment work. That means conversations are tailored to each person's needs and include straightforward strategies to change unhelpful patterns. She keeps sessions interactive and collaborative.
Clients can expect practical techniques for managing strong emotions, building routines, and improving communication. Ana uses skills training when people need tools, and deeper conversation when people want to understand patterns from the past. She aims for clear goals and small steps that fit daily life.
Fluent in English and Spanish, she draws on years of work as a rehab counselor and advocate. That background informs how she supports people dealing with trauma, chronic illness, or life transitions. Ana frames therapy as a partnership to help people move toward more manageable days.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early patterns affect current relationships and emotion. In sessions this looks like talking through relationship patterns, noticing triggers, and building new ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) zeroes in on thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going; it uses exercises and short experiments to try different reactions and routines. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and move through strong feelings to change how they relate to important people in their lives.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana helps clients decide whether attachment-focused conversation, CBT skills practice, or a mix will fit best. She adapts methods based on your goals, comfort, and what’s happening day to day so the plan feels practical and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can work well for a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for short updates, coaching-style support, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity and try techniques between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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