Maricruz Valdez , LPC

Maricruz Valdez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a decade of clinical experience supporting children, adolescents, adults, and couples. She earned a Master’s Degree in Counseling from Angelo State University in December 2010 and has provided both individual and group therapy across a range of presenting concerns.

Maricruz has a strong interest in helping people improve their daily lives and discover a deeper sense of meaning. Her work emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she tailors interventions to meet each person’s unique needs. She integrates person-centered and cognitive-behavioral strategies alongside solution-focused and biblical approaches to help clients pursue their goals with renewed hope and perseverance.

Her practice includes support for stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication and control problems, forgiveness, immigration-related concerns, infidelity and jealousy, life purpose and midlife transitions, financial stress, mood disorders, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.

Maricruz approaches therapy as a collaborative process, aiming to empower individuals and couples to build healthier patterns, strengthen relationships, and move toward a more fulfilling life.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Maricruz uses client-centered therapy to place the client's experience at the center of treatment, helping people feel heard and supported as they explore personal values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, another core approach, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and developing practical strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mood difficulties. She also incorporates mindfulness therapy techniques to help clients build present-moment awareness and coping skills for stress, grief, and emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Maricruz works with clients to assess needs, goals, and personal preferences, and she adapts methods over time so therapy fits each person's life and circumstances.

Online therapy offers flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, family, and other commitments, and allow clients to continue therapy from familiar settings while receiving support from licensed professionals and therapists who tailor treatment to their needs.