Dina Garza , LPC

Dina Garza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression. She works with concerns like grief, parenting challenges, intimacy issues, and struggles related to addictions or major life changes. Dina speaks English and brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice.

Her sessions are practical and down-to-earth. She treats clients as the expert on their own life and helps them use their existing strengths. Conversations focus on clear goals and small steps that can be practiced between sessions.

Dina draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and trauma-focused work when those methods fit a person's needs. She also uses solution-focused ideas to break problems into manageable parts. These approaches are chosen to match what each person wants to work on and how they prefer to make change.

In sessions Dina aims to make things feel manageable. She listens for what matters most and then helps build tools for coping, communication, and decision-making. She offers ways to address body image, codependency, attachment worries, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence.

Her practice includes conversations about career pressures, chronic illness, disruptive mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Dina encourages people to take one step at a time and to use therapy as a place to try new responses and rehearse different choices.

How Dina’s Approaches Work Online

Dina commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused methods in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-focused therapy pays attention to how past hurts affect current feelings and behavior and works on skills to manage triggers and regain control.

She also draws on mindfulness practices to help people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away. Mindfulness can be used alongside CBT or trauma work to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Dina treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process and will help clients decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or ongoing text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can use less bandwidth, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports short, flexible check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress even when schedules change.