About Dina
Dina Garza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and struggles with motivation and self-esteem. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps so people feel understood and able to move forward. Dina views each person as the expert on their own life.
She looks for strengths a person already has and builds on them. Sessions are focused and goal-oriented while still making room for hard feelings and real stories.
Background and approach
Her style blends problem-solving and skills practice with attention to emotions and past hurts. Dina uses techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, repair communication, and notice how present-moment awareness can lower stress. Over eight years of clinical work inform her choices about pacing and intervention.
She aims to create a steady process so progress feels manageable and measurable. The work often involves small experiments between sessions to test new ways of coping. Dina supports people working through grief, identity and body-image concerns, addiction-related challenges, chronic illness, and major life transitions.
She also addresses issues such as attachment wounds, codependency, intimacy struggles, and career stress. For someone who is nervous about starting therapy, Dina emphasizes taking one step at a time. The focus is on clear goals, practical tools, and helping people reclaim a sense of control over daily life.
How Dina’s approaches translate to online therapy
Mindfulness Therapy focuses on learning to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment. It helps lower stress and reduce reactivity by teaching brief attention practices that people can use between sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thoughts and build more effective habits, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues.
Trauma-Focused Therapy attends to the effects of past hurt and abuse, working slowly to help people feel safer in their bodies and daily routines. Techniques emphasize stabilization, grounding, and building tools to tolerate strong emotions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Dina works with each person to pick and adapt methods based on their goals, comfort level, and what works in real life. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions can be simpler when video would be difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging let someone check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment routines while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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