About Stella
Stella Rodriquez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 24 years of clinical experience in Texas. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship problems in a straightforward, practical way. She focuses on creating a calm space where clients can talk openly about difficult emotions and experiences.
Stella draws on several therapy approaches to match what each person needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills.
How Stella works
Mindfulness practices are included to help people stay grounded in stressful moments. She also uses elements of the Gottman Method for relationship work, focusing on concrete communication skills and patterns that affect closeness. Narrative therapy helps clients reorganize their stories and discover choices they may have missed.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused. Stella works with each person to set clear, manageable steps and practices between meetings. The approach balances practical skill building with time to process feelings.
Her additional focus areas include caregiver stress, codependency, grief or hospice-related concerns, immigration issues, and multicultural topics. She is experienced helping people facing infidelity, divorce and separation, first responder stresses, and midlife transitions. Stella offers care in English from her Texas practice.
Stella lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Stella works with
The areas below are the ones Stella 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
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Stella commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors through practical exercises. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems because it gives clear tools to practice between sessions.She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy, which offers emotion regulation skills, distress tolerance, and interpersonal techniques. DBT-style skills can help when overwhelming feelings or relationship conflicts get in the way of daily life. The Gottman Method is used for relationship-focused work and emphasizes specific communication techniques and patterns that affect closeness.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Plans can be adjusted over time so the approach fits the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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