Maricruz Valdez, LPC

Maricruz Valdez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical experience based in Texas. She holds a master’s degree in counseling and has worked across age groups, including school-age children, adolescents, adults, and couples. Maricruz focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, depression, trauma, and parenting concerns.

Her approach is practical and collaborative. She adapts methods to each person instead of using a single fixed plan. Sessions often blend client-centered conversation with cognitive-behavioral strategies and mindfulness moments to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Maricruz also uses existential ideas to help clients consider values and meaning, and motivational interviewing to support change.

She brings a respectful and compassionate style to the work. Clients can expect to be heard and treated as individuals while the therapist and client set clear goals. Biblical perspectives are part of her background and may be included when clients request them.

Maricruz has experience with a wide range of concerns beyond the core specialties, including attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication and control problems, infidelity and jealousy, money and life purpose questions, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. She works in both English and Spanish.

If someone is weighing therapy, she encourages taking the first step and completing a brief matching questionnaire to get connected. From there, scheduling is arranged according to therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding someone’s experience, then helping them lead the discussion about what matters most. It works well for relationship struggles, grief, and self-esteem concerns by giving people space to make sense of feelings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and try small, practical changes. It’s often used for anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and mood issues because it gives concrete tools to practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean mixing listening-based work with CBT exercises or adding mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support change.

For online therapy logistics, confirm the current session options before booking. This therapist’s listed approaches can be used effectively in remote work, and many people find online sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Benefits can include shorter check-ins, fewer travel interruptions, and the ability to schedule appointments around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities. Therapists and licensed professionals will discuss what will work best during the initial match and scheduling steps.