About Daena
Daena Gonzalez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with three years of clinical experience. She provides calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, or stressful life changes. Her sessions focus on straightforward, skill-based work.
She helps people manage panic, reduce social anxiety, and cope with obsessive thoughts and compulsive urges. She also supports parents and caregivers who are juggling responsibility and stress. Daena pays attention to how attachment and control issues show up in relationships and daily life.
How Daena works
She talks with clients about guilt, shame, and finding a clearer sense of purpose. For many people she works with, improving self-esteem and self-love is a starting point for bigger change. Her background includes experience in social services and work with mental health and intellectual and developmental disability related needs.
That range of experience informs practical strategies for behavior change and everyday coping skills. Daena builds a treatment approach around each person's goals. She adapts conversations and plans to fit individual needs.
The focus is on small, doable steps toward a more balanced life.
What Daena works with
The areas below are the ones Daena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Daena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on concrete skills people can use right away. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These techniques help reduce panic attacks and social anxiety by practicing manageable steps.Another strand of her work focuses on behavior change to support mood and daily functioning. That includes building routines, tackling unhelpful habits, and breaking down goals into small tasks. This approach is useful for depression, low motivation, obsessions, compulsions, and seasonal affective shifts.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past attempts at change. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good short check-in. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick questions, brief reflections, or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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