Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Carmen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas, Arizona
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Carmen
Carmen Torres is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience supporting people through stressful and painful life moments. She practices in Texas and works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship stress. Carmen speaks English and Spanish and brings a calm, direct style to sessions.
She focuses on clear, practical steps clients can use right away. Carmen helps people handle work pressure, parenting strain, grief, and changes like separation or career shifts.
Background and approach
She also supports folks navigating identity and intimacy issues, eating concerns, and trauma recovery. Her approach blends evidence-based techniques with a person-centered attitude. Carmen uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients clarify values and make choices that match those values. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are part of her toolbox for building momentum and short-term goals. Sessions tend to emphasize doable strategies, experiments to try between meetings, and clear next steps.
Carmen prioritizes listening, normalizing difficult feelings, and helping people regain a sense of control. Clients who do best with her tend to want practical guidance and respectful conversation. She works with people who need help with anger, communication problems, attachment struggles, and caregiver stress.
Carmen can also assist with ADHD-related challenges and career decision-making using structured exercises and coaching-style support.
What Carmen works with
Everything Carmen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Carmen's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Carmen lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-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 Carmen blends proven approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and big life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behavior that make problems worse and practicing new ways of responding. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and building a trusting relationship so clients can find their own solutions and develop self-understanding.Carmen treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. The first few sessions are often used to figure out which combination of techniques feels most useful for your situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and routines. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be a shorter check-in or a way to reflect between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other obligations while keeping focus on progress and practical next steps.
Questions people ask about Carmen
What concerns does Carmen help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating concerns, self-esteem, ADHD, and parenting and family stress.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a practical, person-centered style that focuses on short-term goals, experiments to try between sessions, and clear coping strategies for everyday problems.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Carmen has ten years of experience working with a range of concerns and diverse cultural backgrounds.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LPC credentials and is licensed to practice in Texas and Arizona, and her practice is based in Texas.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with people located in the U.S.
What formats are available for online sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to start, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.