About Ana
Ana Parra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress, and phobias. She brings 12 years of experience and an approachable, warm style to sessions. Ana speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy easy to access for people juggling busy lives.
She blends therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Client-Centered Therapy to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
In sessions she focuses on clear steps people can try between meetings, like small exposure tasks for fears or new coping skills for anxiety. She keeps language direct and avoids clinical jargon so parents and caregivers can follow along. Ana has worked with a wide range of concerns including depression, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, phobias, and relationship struggles.
She often helps people who feel stuck after life changes, or who want better sleep, healthier habits, or less workplace stress. Her experience includes work with children, adolescents, and adults earlier in her career. Her style is interactive and respectful.
She listens first, then creates a plan together that fits daily routines. Sessions include practical tools, skill practice, and space to talk through difficult feelings. For people worried about panic, specific fears, or overwhelming avoidance, Ana offers structured steps to gradually face those fears and regain confidence.
She supports parents and individuals who are learning how to respond to anxiety and phobias in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and phobia work
Ana often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. ACT can be helpful for anxiety, phobias, and life changes because it focuses on small steps toward a meaningful life rather than just fighting feelings.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT provides concrete exercises like gradual exposure for specific fears, thought records for anxious thinking, and behavioral experiments to test what actually happens when someone faces a fear.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana treats the process as collaborative and will help clients try different techniques to see what fits best. She tailors plans to each person’s goals, daily routine, and comfort level so progress feels manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows visual cues and real-time coaching, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and text are useful for short check-ins and skill practice between sessions. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and support steady practice of skills for anxiety and phobias.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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