About Norma
Norma McCarthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 25 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and other struggles. Norma listens first and helps people make clear, practical steps forward.
Her work focuses on building a personal toolkit for day-to-day life. She uses straightforward strategies to manage mood swings, panic, and the push of big life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and checking what actually works for each person. Norma draws on several therapy styles to match what a person needs. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clarify values and take action.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. Attachment-based ideas guide her when early relationships affect current patterns. Dialectical behavior skills are used when intense emotion or interpersonal stress gets in the way of daily functioning.
Her client-centered stance keeps the person’s voice central in every session. People who have dealt with trauma, caregiving strain, or complicated family-of-origin issues often find concrete ways to cope here. Norma also supports those facing career stress, identity concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She helps people set achievable goals and practice small changes that add up over time.
How her approaches translate to online care
Norma commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for motivation, anxiety, and coping with ADHD-related challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms.She sees figuring out the right approach as a shared process. In early sessions she and the client review goals, try a few techniques, and decide together which methods feel most helpful. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person’s daily life and priorities.
Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking goals, and keeping skills fresh between sessions. These options help people maintain momentum and make therapy more accessible alongside work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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