About Carmen
Dr. Carmen Pulido helps people facing stress, anxiety, mood problems, addiction, trauma, ADHD, and life transitions. She offers clear, practical guidance to reduce symptoms and build routines that fit daily life.
She holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is licensed as a psychologist in Texas and California. Dr. Pulido uses straightforward talk and active tools rather than long lectures.
Sessions focus on small, doable changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance and mindfulness strategies. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and choose actions that match their values. When trauma or attachment issues come up, she uses focused techniques to address those patterns gently.
Many people appreciate that she frames change as a step-by-step process. She listens for patterns rooted in family of origin, work stress, or past losses. Then she helps create practical plans for better sleep, mood management, and managing urges or cravings.
Dr. Pulido also brings years of work with professionals and first responder issues to the room. That background informs how she talks about workplace stress, career shifts, and managing responsibility.
She offers sessions in English and Spanish and works with clients by phone, video, chat, or messaging. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. People who come to her usually leave with clearer routines, skills to manage emotions, and a sense of what to try next.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting ruled by them and choose actions that match what matters. In online sessions this looks like short exercises, values mapping, and setting small behavioral goals between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. It works well over video or phone because homework, thought records, and behavior experiments can be reviewed together and adjusted in follow-up sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and daily routine. That may mean combining ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused ideas and adjusting them as progress unfolds.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let a therapist observe nonverbal cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule on a busy day. Live chat or text messaging work for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers written reflections. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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