About Norma
Norma Jean Salinas is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She aims to make the first step less intimidating and offers a calm, approachable style for people coping with stress, anxiety, phobias, trauma, grief, and life transitions. She trained in mental health counseling and brings eight years of professional experience.
Norma Jean shifted into counseling after a first career in broadcast journalism, so she values clear communication and practical guidance.
Background and approach
She works in a warm, relaxed, and nonjudgmental way and will use gentle humor when it fits the moment. Norma Jean favors a client-centered approach that lets people guide the focus of their work. She combines that with other methods so each plan matches the person's goals.
Sessions typically include teaching skills, practicing new ways to cope, and talking through difficult memories or fears. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing methods, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. She pulls from these to create a tailored plan rather than using one fixed method.
People can expect collaboration and steady support aimed at practical change. Norma Jean emphasizes building a strong working relationship and helping clients find tools they can use between sessions. She welcomes those ready to take a next step toward feeling better and gaining more control over daily life.
Approaches you might use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. The therapist creates space for the person to say what matters most and helps them shape the work around their goals, which can be helpful for anxiety, self-esteem, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, involves identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, panic, phobias, and depression and emphasizes doable steps people can use between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a method used to work through distressing memories and trauma symptoms. It pairs focused attention with guided processing to reduce the intensity of difficult memories and related reactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Norma Jean will talk with the person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress or needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, low-intensity contact between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into their daily life and try different ways of working to see what feels best.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- 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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