Ana Ortiz, LPC

Ana Ortiz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 14 years of experience. She began her career as a rehab counselor and advocate, and now focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She speaks English and Spanish and uses straightforward, respectful talk to understand what matters to each person.

She shapes sessions around the person in front of her. Ana draws on client-centered methods that let people set the pace and topics. She also uses cognitive-behavioral tools to notice unhelpful thinking and build different daily habits. These approaches are offered alongside work that looks at attachment and relationship patterns.

In a typical session she listens for what feels stuck and helps create small steps to try between meetings. That might include changing routines, practicing new ways to handle strong emotions, or trying communication strategies that reduce conflict. The focus is on practical changes people can use in everyday life rather than labels or complicated theories.

Ana has experience with a wide range of concerns related to family stress, parenting strain, grief, intimacy issues, body image, chronic pain and illness, and career transitions. She also supports people dealing with addiction, ADHD, and emotion regulation challenges. Her approach aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable.

Her style is warm and interactive, grounded in respect and compassion. To start, she asks about current goals and builds a clear plan together, checking in along the way to adjust what’s working.

How her approaches translate to online work

Ana uses client-centered methods that focus on what each person wants to change and how they want to work. This approach centers the conversation on your priorities, and helps shape sessions around your goals and pace.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and routines affect mood and behavior. CBT sessions often include concrete exercises and small behavior changes you can practice between meetings to build different everyday habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ana will work together with each person to choose techniques that match goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. That collaborative decision-making helps people try methods that feel useful and realistic.

If you are interested in online sessions, please confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example by saving travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a break, or offering sessions when attending in person would be difficult. Licensed professionals can use these options to help people practice new skills and change everyday habits without adding extra appointments.