About Marcos
Marcos Villareal helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and big life changes. He also supports concerns related to ADHD, addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy, parenting, bipolar symptoms, and self-esteem. Marcos is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas with 20 years of experience.
He uses a calm, collaborative style that focuses on clear goals and steady progress. Sessions are practical and straightforward. Marcos listens first, then helps people try small changes that build confidence and ease daily strain.
How Marcos works
His background includes long-term clinical work addressing emotional connection and communication struggles. Marcos draws on therapy approaches that emphasize emotions, thought patterns, and personal values to guide the work. He helps people notice how thoughts and actions affect relationships and mood.
In sessions Marcos offers tools for handling intense emotions, resolving recurring conflicts, and creating routines that support better focus and mood. He can assist with navigating relationship cycles, improving communication skills, and reducing avoidance or isolation. People who seek his help often want concrete steps and support to make life feel more manageable.
Marcos aims to create an environment where clients feel heard and can test new ways of relating to themselves and others. He tailors the pace to each person’s needs and priorities.
Marcos lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Marcos works with
The areas below are the ones Marcos selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes when motivation or direction feels unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. CBT can help with depression, anxiety, and patterns that keep problems stuck.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, or another approach best fits the person's needs, and they adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions when video is not practical, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow quick check-ins, and let people choose formats that match their energy and schedule.
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