About Dina
Dina Garza helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with self-esteem, addiction concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, and parenting strain. Dina is a Licensed Professional Counselor, or LPC, with eight years of clinical experience in Texas.
Dina keeps sessions practical and straightforward. She listens first, then helps clients set small, achievable goals. Conversations focus on skills that can be tried between sessions and checked on later.
How Dina works
She emphasizes strengths people already have and builds from there. Her approach combines tools from cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness work, and solution-focused strategies. For relationship concerns she uses ideas from the Gottman Method to improve communication and repair patterns.
For trauma and abuse, she integrates trauma-focused methods that aim to reduce symptom distress and increase daily functioning. Dina often works with people facing life transitions, chronic health challenges, body image or eating-related issues, and complex emotions like emptiness or abandonment. She pays attention to how attachment and communication patterns shape current problems.
Sessions aim to make everyday life more manageable and aligned with the client’s values. She speaks English and practices in Texas. Dina invites people to take a first step even when it feels hard, and she helps clients pace the work so it fits real life.
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What Dina works with
The areas below are the ones Dina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Many clients use cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and then practice different responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.The Gottman Method offers concrete communication tools and exercises that can help reduce conflict and rebuild trust in close relationships. It focuses on improving day-to-day interaction and problem solving between partners.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. It can support stress management, emotional regulation, and chronic pain coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dina will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then collaborate on a plan that mixes approaches when needed. This lets clients try methods and adjust as they learn what fits.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and exercises. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins, homework, or shorter weekly support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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