About Cecilia
Cecilia Clowdus is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas with seven years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, mood challenges, and eating or body-image concerns. Cecilia focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier in daily life.
She draws from several well-known therapeutic methods to match each person's needs. Sessions include straightforward skills training, guided conversations about relationships and boundaries, and strategies for managing panic or strong emotions.
Background and approach
Cecilia also helps people dealing with addiction, grief, and major life changes to find clearer next steps. Cecilia pays attention to how past family experiences shape current patterns. She helps clients look at family-of-origin issues, abandonment concerns, and adoption or foster-care questions in ways that reduce shame and increase self-understanding.
Caregiver stress and codependency are also common topics she addresses with concrete coping tools. The work tends to be collaborative and paced to the client. Cecilia uses client-centered techniques to listen first and then layers in cognitive and behavioral tools.
For trauma-related concerns, she incorporates approaches that focus on both symptoms and emotional processing. Sessions can include short skills practice, longer processing work, or a mix depending on what someone needs that week. Cecilia aims to make therapy useful and relatable, helping people build habits that support better days.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to clarify their values and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it focuses on what matters most rather than only reducing symptoms. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce worry and improve mood. It often includes homework and concrete, measurable steps that translate well to remote sessions.Finding the best approach is a team effort. Cecilia will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques from ACT, CBT, or client-centered work. Together the therapist and client check how techniques feel in real life and adjust the plan over time to match results and comfort level.
Online formats make regular work easier to maintain. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option for days with limited internet, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or to practice skills between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules, manage follow-up tasks, and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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