About Marcos
Marcos Villareal is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of clinical experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship trouble, and life transitions. He also supports those dealing with grief, addiction, anger, self-esteem, and career strain.
He offers a calm, direct style in sessions. Conversations focus on understanding what matters to the person and finding small, usable changes to daily life. Marcos aims to make therapy practical so clients can test ideas between sessions.
Background and approach
His work draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral tools, attachment-focused thinking, emotionally focused work, and a client-centered stance. He uses these methods to address communication patterns, emotional blockages, and recurring behavior that causes pain. Marcos treats relationship concerns by helping people improve communication and rebuild emotional connection.
For individual worries such as anxiety or ADHD-related struggles he focuses on routines, clear goals, and skills that reduce overwhelm. Clients can expect a collaborative pace. Marcos asks about everyday routines, stress points, and values to shape treatment.
He emphasizes self-awareness, practical skills, and steady progress toward clearer priorities and better functioning.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and commit to small steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while taking action that matches personal goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related overwhelm.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Marcos uses CBT techniques to teach specific skills for managing worry, changing unhelpful thinking, and building routines that reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
Attachment-Based Therapy attends to how past relationships shape present connection and emotional responses. This approach can be useful for relationship struggles, intimacy issues, and people who want clearer emotional safety in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Marcos will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotion work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, tracking skills, or when someone prefers typing to talking. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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