Elizabeth Barrera-Sepulveda , LPC

Elizabeth Barrera-Sepulveda is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who focuses on helping people cope and find steadier ground. She uses straightforward listening and practical strategies to help clients reduce distress and move toward clearer goals. Elizabeth draws on 22 years of combined counseling experience to guide conversations and plan steps that feel doable.

She began her career after earning a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Counseling from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. Her work history includes roles in inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, crisis counseling in shelters, and facilitating support groups. That background shaped her approach to trauma, mood disorders, and substance-related concerns.

Elizabeth has worked with people who survived domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes. She has provided support for those coping with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and suicidal thoughts. Her practice also addresses stress, relationship strain, sleep problems, grief, and issues many women face during life changes.

Her style is practical and collaborative. She blends client-centered ways of listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused planning. Motivational interviewing and trauma-focused methods are also part of her toolkit when clients need them.

Sessions aim to identify small, concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Elizabeth helps people build coping skills, manage difficult emotions, and reconnect with a sense of purpose. She emphasizes respect for each person’s background and values while working toward realistic change.

How her approaches translate online

Client-centered therapy is about being heard and having the therapist follow your lead. Online sessions use that style to set goals that matter to you and shape each meeting around your priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and helps you test new ways of responding to stress, anxiety, or mood swings through practical exercises and homework.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will help you decide whether client-centered listening, CBT, solution-focused planning, or trauma-focused methods fit your goals. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you connect face to face for in-depth work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messages let you reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum when circumstances shift.