About Norma
Norma McCarthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 25 years of experience. She creates a calm, welcoming space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Norma listens and helps clients build practical ways to cope and move forward.
She combines somatic awareness with talk-based work to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. That makes it easier to calm physical tension and think more clearly about next steps.
Background and approach
Norma also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help people name values, shift unhelpful thoughts, and take manageable actions. Norma works with a broad range of concerns including ADHD, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing career strain, postpartum mood changes, panic attacks, and mood disorders such as bipolar.
Additional focus areas include attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, and problems stemming from family of origin. Sessions are grounded in the person’s goals. Norma helps clients build a personalized mental health toolbox with skills they can use between sessions.
She encourages small, steady steps that match each person’s pace. Norma provides services in English from Texas and brings a steady, patient manner to the work. Her years of practice give her experience with many kinds of transitions and losses, and she aims to make therapy a practical, usable resource.
Approaches that connect mind and body online
Somatic work helps people notice where stress and strong emotions live in the body. In online sessions Norma might guide gentle awareness of breath, posture, or tension so clients can learn to calm physical reactions tied to anxiety or trauma.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on naming values and taking small actions that match those values. It helps when people feel stuck by teaching ways to accept uncomfortable thoughts while still moving toward what matters.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online conversations explore those patterns and help clients develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Norma will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort with online formats. The plan can shift as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and client-centered.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. This variety makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, continue work during life changes, and access help from home. Norma uses these options to keep care consistent and responsive to each person’s schedule and preference.
Frequently asked questions
What issues does Norma commonly address?
What is Norma's therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is Norma licensed and located?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with Norma?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English