About Marcos
Marcos Villareal is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has spent 20 years helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life changes. He works with clients dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, substance concerns, ADHD, bipolar-related issues, intimacy and parenting challenges, and LGBTQ matters.
Marcos brings a calm, direct style to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. He combines somatic awareness with talking-based therapies.
Background and approach
That means attention to how the body holds emotion alongside exploring thoughts and patterns. Sessions aim to build emotional safety, improve communication, and reduce overwhelming reactions. Marcos uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centered methods, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
He adapts tools to each person’s needs so therapy feels useful and grounded. The focus is on skills you can use in everyday life. In practice Marcos emphasizes self-awareness and emotional resilience.
He helps people identify unhelpful habits, try new ways of relating, and practice small changes that add up over time. His goal is to support people in feeling more balanced and capable. Marcos holds an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - in Texas (TX LPC 79064).
He conducts sessions in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients are not accepted.
Approaches used online and what they do
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how sensations in the body link to emotions and stress. This approach can help people notice physical tension, learn grounding skills, and reduce overwhelm that shows up in the body.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking action toward them while allowing difficult thoughts and feelings to be present. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes when someone wants clearer direction and more flexibility.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connection and trust. It can help people improve communication, repair hurts, and build more supported ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to figure out what methods fit their goals and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. These options allow flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences, and they let people continue progress even when they cannot meet in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English