Carmen Torres, LPC

Carmen Torres is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical experience. She practices in Texas and draws on her bilingual skills to work with English and Spanish speakers. Carmen focuses on making therapy straightforward and practical for people under stress. Her sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to build small, doable steps forward. Carmen helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and relationship strain. She also supports those dealing with parenting stress, identity concerns including LGBT issues, eating and body image problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, autism spectrum concerns, codependency, and communication or control problems. Therapy with Carmen often looks like setting clear goals, practicing specific skills, and checking what works between sessions. She encourages practical experiments - trying things differently and noticing results. Clients can expect a warm, respectful tone and attention to cultural context. Sessions are available via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Carmen’s approach aims to fit each person’s needs and schedule while helping them build coping strategies and clearer choices.

How Carmen's Approaches Work Online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. It tends to focus on specific problems and practical exercises that can be practiced between sessions.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes noticing difficult feelings and choosing actions that align with personal values. It supports people facing grief, trauma, or stress by helping them clarify what matters and take small committed steps toward those values.

Carmen will work with each person to find the right mix of methods. She treats choosing an approach as a team effort, adjusting techniques based on the client's goals, feedback, and comfort. Clients set priorities and together they try strategies to see what helps most.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging options support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the work focused and goal-driven.