About Vanessa
Vanessa Longoria-Carter is a licensed mental health professional in Texas with 13 years of experience. She helps people facing trauma, depression, anxiety, eating and addictive behaviors, and challenges related to ADHD. Her approach aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported.
She uses short, clear conversations to learn what matters most to each person. Together with clients she builds practical plans that fit daily life. She adjusts sessions based on how someone responds, focusing on skills that can be used right away.
Background and approach
Vanessa combines several therapeutic methods to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an option when past events keep causing distress. Clients can expect respectful, sensitive care and a focus on realistic goals. She often blends coaching-style problem solving with clinical tools to support work, parenting, or stressful life transitions.
Progress is tracked in simple ways so changes are obvious. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy schedules. People who speak English can work with her from within Texas.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for both client and therapist.
How Vanessa’s approaches work online
Vanessa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that change how they feel. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments you can do between sessions.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills can be useful when strong feelings or relationship conflict get in the way of daily life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is offered as a way to reduce the ongoing impact of past traumatic events for those who choose it.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Vanessa will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then pick or combine methods that fit. She adjusts plans as needed so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text messaging can serve for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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