- Years in practice
- 14
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Ana
Ana Ortiz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and parenting concerns. Ana speaks English and Spanish and aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable and direct.
She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral and attachment-based work to help people change unhelpful patterns. Sessions are collaborative and focused on what a person wants to achieve.
Background and approach
Ana keeps conversations warm and interactive while helping people build useful skills. Many people come to her for help after trauma, emotional abuse, or difficult life changes. She also supports those dealing with grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or problems with intimacy and commitment.
Ana pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions and decision-making. Her style blends listening with clear tools for coping and problem solving. That might mean working on thoughts and routines that increase anxiety, or practicing new ways to respond in close relationships.
Ana helps people set realistic goals and track small steps toward them. Sessions can include coaching-style guidance for career or parenting challenges alongside therapy for mood and addiction concerns. She encourages people to bring practical questions and real moments from daily life into sessions so work can be applied right away.
What Ana works with
Everything Ana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Ana helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Ana lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Ana commonly uses cognitive behavioral approaches and attachment-based ideas in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives straightforward exercises to change unhelpful habits. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how past connections shape current reactions and relationship choices.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Ana works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and personality. She discusses options, tries techniques together, and adjusts the plan based on what is helpful and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when that matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit counseling into busy family and work lives while keeping focus on the real problems they want to change.
Questions people ask about Ana
What concerns does Ana commonly address?
Ana helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, and related concerns such as ADHD, caregiver stress, and chronic illness.
What is Ana's therapeutic style like?
Her sessions are warm and interactive and blend listening with practical tools. She focuses on clear strategies and collaborative goal-setting rather than long lectures.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience working as a rehab counselor, advocate, and therapist with a wide range of presenting issues.
Where is Ana licensed to practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Texas and provides services to people located in that state.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Ana?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.
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