About Norma
Norma McCarthy is an LPC with 25 years of clinical experience who draws on practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She offers a steady, empathetic presence and focuses on building skills that fit each person's daily life. Her work aims to reduce distress and increase the ability to cope with challenges.
Her background includes long-term work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
How Norma works
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behavioral experiments. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when emotional regulation and intense reactions need structure and practice. Norma includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps, and Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early patterns shape current relationships.
She blends these approaches in a client-centered way, listening first and adapting tools to each person's goals. Sessions focus on practical strategies, practice between sessions, and realistic goal-setting. People who turn to her often have complex stresses such as caregiver strain, first responder or veteran-related issues, postpartum mood concerns, or challenges around identity and relationships.
Norma also supports those facing career setbacks, midlife transitions, and struggles with anger or self-esteem. Her practice is based in Texas and she conducts sessions in English. Therapy combines conversation, skill-building, and short homework tasks so progress can be measured and adjusted over time.
Norma lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Norma works with
The areas below are the ones Norma selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. Online sessions using ACT focus on noticing thoughts and choosing value-guided steps that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses short experiments and skill practice to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions, CBT tasks and worksheets can be shared and reviewed together for clear next steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first based on needs, goals, and what feels most useful. That ongoing conversation shapes the plan and allows adjustments if a different focus would help more.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation are helpful. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to handle brief coaching, daily tracking, or timely support between sessions. These formats let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while still working with licensed professionals.
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