About Pedro
Pedro Ricardo Gonzalez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 22 years of clinical experience. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and focuses on helping people make practical changes in their lives. He works by setting clear, reasonable goals together with each person.
He has worked across higher education, non-profit programs, inpatient residential settings, and independent practice. That range of experience means he has seen many kinds of struggles and brings practical knowledge to sessions.
How Pedro works
He uses approaches people can understand and apply to everyday life. Pedro combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and narrative approaches. He also uses mindfulness techniques and EMDR where appropriate.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs, not rushed or one-size-fits-all. Common concerns he addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting and grief. He also helps with career transitions, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and self-esteem work.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and communication problems. People who prefer clear goals and straightforward strategies tend to do well with his style. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled to fit both schedules.
Pedro lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Pedro works with
The areas below are the ones Pedro selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a supportive relationship; it helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk and sort priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses clear, structured techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and often works well for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a process for addressing traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided processing to reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and past experiences, then recommend methods to try. Decisions are collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people access licensed professionals from different locations and adapt therapy to everyday life.
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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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