About Ana
Ana Ortiz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 14 years of experience. She began her career as a rehab counselor and advocate and has since worked across a range of settings. Ana speaks English and Spanish and focuses on practical, down-to-earth help.
Ana sees people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also helps those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, and career pressure.
How Ana works
Other areas she supports include ADHD, compassion fatigue, body image, chronic illness and pain, and codependency. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are conversational and focused on what the person wants to change.
Ana adapts her approach to each person instead of using the same plan for everyone. She uses tools from attachment-based work, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and emotionally-focused methods. Those tools are applied in ways that fit a person's goals, pace, and comfort level.
Ana offers multiple online formats so people can choose what works for them. She helps clients set realistic steps, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress over time. Her focus is on making change feel doable and relevant to everyday life.
Ana lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Ana works with
The areas below are the ones Ana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on relationship and skills
Ana commonly draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships and how these patterns affect feelings and behavior. This approach looks at ways to build more reliable emotional connection and repair, which can help with intimacy, abandonment concerns, and communication problems.She also uses client-centered techniques that keep the person's perspective central. This means conversations are guided by what the person brings, with the therapist offering empathy, reflection, and support rather than a preset script. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is another frequent tool; CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then teaches practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and some stress-related issues.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Ana will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then recommend methods to try and adjust them over time in collaboration with the client.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people keep visual connection for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or movement is a concern. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy days and to continue steady progress between sessions.
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