About Marisa
Marisa Esparza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, ADHD, depression, and related concerns. She brings a direct, practical approach and aims to make therapy understandable and workable for daily life.
She earned a Master of Education in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2015 and a Bachelor of Education from the same university in 2011.
Background and approach
Over the past decade she has worked in inpatient units, outpatient programs, and community treatment teams, gaining experience with crisis situations and group work. Her background includes program management in both children and adolescent inpatient care and adult and military outpatient groups.
In those roles she coordinated care with medical staff, contributed to risk and psychological assessments, and led groups and family sessions to stabilize people in distress. Earlier work on an Assertive Community Treatment Team involved psychiatric rehabilitative skills training and crisis management in homes and community settings.
That role emphasized resource coordination to help people stay in the community and reduce unnecessary hospital stays. She has clinical experience across age ranges and settings, and she often supports adolescents and young adults and those exploring gender and sexual identity. She is an LGBTQIA advocate who aims to help young people and families improve communication and understanding.
In sessions she combines practical skills, evidence-informed techniques, and collaborative goal-setting. She focuses on clear, usable strategies for coping, emotion regulation, and improving daily functioning rather than jargon-heavy explanations.
How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes because it encourages practical steps rather than getting stuck on perfect thinking.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer ways of relating. This can be helpful for intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and improving communication with family members.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about problems, goals, and preferences, then suggest one or a mix of methods to try. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people in Texas and beyond. Video calls let sessions feel more like in-person meetings when needed, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage transportation limits, and choose a format that matches comfort and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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