About Una
Una Howard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people get a handle on stress and anxiety while also addressing depression and low self-esteem. She offers calm, respectful care and aims to meet people where they are in their lives.
Her work often centers on relationship concerns and the emotional fallout of grief and loss. She also supports people navigating identity and LGBT issues, as well as complex topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, and blended family dynamics.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and geared toward practical next steps. Clients can expect a plan tailored to their goals and circumstances. Una listens for patterns that keep people stuck, then helps them try different ways of responding.
She uses techniques grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s pace. She pays attention to common obstacles such as communication problems, codependency, control issues, and the stress of caregiving. She also works with concerns related to body image, intimacy differences including BDSM and kink culture, and the emotional effects of separation or divorce.
Una presents herself with compassion and sensitivity. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and helps people build skills for everyday life. Taking the first step can feel risky, and she aims to make the process straightforward and manageable.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Many of the methods used are drawn from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One common approach helps people notice and change thought and behavior patterns that increase anxiety and low mood; it teaches practical ways to test and shift unhelpful thinking. Another approach emphasizes learning emotional and communication skills to improve relationships and manage strong feelings like grief or shame.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then suggest techniques to try together. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation from wherever they are, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity across different circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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