About Marcos
Marcos Villareal is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. He helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. He also supports those dealing with ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma, and intimacy or parenting concerns.
He uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client. Marcos listens first, then suggests small steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions mix emotional work with specific strategies for daily life. His approach draws on several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral ideas and attachment-focused thinking. He centers the client’s goals and adapts techniques to the situation.
This means sessions can include skill-building, exploring patterns, or working on communication skills. Marcos frames therapy as a collaborative effort. He helps clients identify what they want to change and crafts a plan to get there.
Progress is tracked in ways that fit the person’s life and pace. Clients in Texas can expect a calm, direct style that balances empathy with practical tools. He aims to help people feel more connected to themselves and others, manage intense feelings, and handle life’s transitions with more confidence.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that reflect personal values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making meaningful life changes by teaching practical exercises to reduce avoidance and increase valued action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms through structured exercises and practice between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional reactions. This approach can be useful for people wanting to improve communication, intimacy, or to understand recurring relationship challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on results and personal preference. Clients play an active role in choosing what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and body language, while phone calls work with lower bandwidth or a quiet check-in. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, skills practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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