About Maricruz
Maricruz Valdez is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of clinical experience. She works from Texas and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Maricruz focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and related concerns.
Maricruz combines client-centered listening with practical strategies. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused so people can see small changes over time.
Background and approach
She also uses existential ideas to help people clarify values and find meaning when life feels confusing. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to build motivation for change. Maricruz adapts methods to each person rather than using one fixed plan.
Common concerns she supports include relationship strain, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and obsessive or compulsive patterns. She also addresses issues like abandonment worries, attachment struggles, body image, and infidelity in individual work. Maricruz aims to create a respectful, straightforward space where people can talk through problems and set realistic goals.
Her approach blends empathy with practical steps so people leave sessions with something to try. New clients complete a short questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their needs.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and helping people feel heard; online sessions use that same approach so clients can talk through what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; it works well online because homework and thought records are easy to share and follow up on. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and worry; these exercises can be practiced between sessions and discussed over video or text. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she will suggest methods to try and adjust them based on how they feel in practice, so you and the therapist find what fits best. Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls let you see facial cues and use visual tools during a session. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, progress notes, or when scheduling makes real-time conversation difficult. These options give flexibility to keep therapy part of a busy life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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