Kathy Boaz-Chavez, LPC

Kathy Boaz-Chavez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, bipolar challenges, and struggles with self-esteem. She speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Kathy aims to make reaching out feel less daunting for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.

Her approach is warm and down-to-earth. She creates a calm setting where clients can talk through painful memories, current worries, and the small daily habits that shape mood. Sessions often center on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of behaving to see what actually changes how someone feels.

Kathy uses a mix of methods tailored to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work to help people notice thoughts and try different responses. She also draws on client-centered listening to follow what matters most to the individual and uses mindfulness and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions.

In practical terms she helps people build coping skills for panic, manage symptoms of mood disorders, and work through guilt, shame, or isolation. She also supports those dealing with relationship attachment struggles, abandonment worries, and life transitions such as midlife concerns or aging issues.

With six years of experience as an LPC in Texas, Kathy focuses on steady, collaborative progress. She helps people set small goals, practice new skills, and track what improves over time.

How Kathy’s approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to see what actually helps. It is commonly used for anxiety, panic, mood disorders, and negative thinking that fuels low self-esteem. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening closely and following the client's priorities, creating space for people to name what matters and set their own pace. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills and can help when feelings feel overwhelming or change quickly.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathy will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and preferences, and then recommend ways of working together. She adjusts methods over time so the plan fits what the client needs and what actually helps in real life.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for learning new skills and practicing them together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera feels like a barrier. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in, get short skills coaching, or keep momentum between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep working on goals consistently.