TAKING NEW CLIENTS (IN TEXAS) Sessions in ENGLISH, PORTUGUÊS, or ESPAÑOL
Hi! My name is Veronica Z. Herrera
Genuinely, I am a people advocate. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, Associate (LPC-A, supervised by Anne Hardegree, LPC-S) in the state of Texas; an executive consultant, and coach.
My mission is to accompany clients in their pursuit of mental serenity. For many years, I have helped professionals realize career goals and navigate life transitions.
Through individual or group talk therapy, my clients and I work together to identify the impacts of past and current distress while reframing limiting thoughts and learning adaptive behaviors. Using various therapeutic approaches (trauma-informed techniques, psychodynamics, schema therapy, attachment theory, and existential methodologies), I treat symptoms of depression, anxiety, grief, confusion, or disconnect. In my practice, I coach clients in achieving self-valorization, implementing problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
I am multi-cultural practitioner based in Austin, Texas.
Specialties
Symptom Focus...
- Trauma or chronic stress: confusion, scattered thoughts, numbness, mental exhaustion.
- Depression: sadness, apathy, lack of quality sleep, irritability, demotivation, mood instability, emotional discomfort.
- Anxiety: excessive preoccupation, anticipation, fear; agitation, racing heart, shortness of breath, sweaty palms, social dread.
- Grief and loss: sorrow, shock, anger, disbelief.
- Self-consciousness: cognitive distortions, inter-personal difficulties, maladaptive behavioral patterns (addictive behaviors and more).
Partnering with clients in their pursuit of...
- Emotional and behavioral regulation
- Distress tolerance
- Self-confidence boost
- Life/work balance
- Self-efficacy and actualization
- Interpersonal effectiveness
Adult populations...
My specialty is assisting adults to manage all stages of their life journey, from the 20s to senior years. My clients consciously seek mental stability and aim to organize internal resources, improve interpersonal patterns, and ultimately achieve career and life goals.
Career & Leadership...
For fifteen years I have worked with professionals, executives, experienced and rising managers, members of staff, netrepreneurs, and college graduates from all industries. We have focused on developing their self-awareness and confidence, their acquiring of social skills, and the portray of personal brands that align values, personality traits, competencies, life and career goals. Career counseling and coaching involves assessing worldviews, which are determined by specific chronological or psychological stages.
Individual and Group Counseling...
My guiding principle is building up trust-based partnerships to form the critical foundation for all successful counseling. I meet individually with clients who seek a supportive, private alliance. As a facilitator, I aim to create an environment where all can benefit and grow from the interaction while honoring the needs and experiences of each member. Stillness, compassion and deep listening are the instruments I use to achieve positive therapy sessions.
How I approach psychotherapy...
Trauma-informed, person-centered tehcniques are core for my practice. With an integrative view of therapy, I utilize cognitive behavioral techniques (CBT) which involve the management of emotions, in combination with methodologies to explore change and decision-making (DBT). As I believe in human psychodynamics, I promote the unveiling of self-limiting cognitive schemas and the core beliefs that shape motivation.
Existential and positive psychology theories also inform my talks in session. Developing awareness of values, purpose, strengths, potential, and fears are part of my clients' work. My intention in every encounter is that clients leave with a solid sense of accomplishment, a breakthrough, or a new life tool.
What I Expect from my Clients
Be ready to partner with me...
- Be you.
- Acknowledge your accountability with the therapeutic process.
- Be willing to work on yourself outside therapy.
- Let me help you.
- Use your words, body, heart or soul to communicate.
- Give me feedback; remember that I don't have answers, I offer you company to unveil solutions.
- Trust the flow of your intuition and feelings.
- Flow to Be...
Group Counseling
- Mid-Life Transitions for individuals 40+ years old
- Life & Purpose for retirees and senior adults
- Relocation, Culture & Career for professionals recently settled in Texas
More about Me
I believe in your strength and potential.
My work is founded on principles of positive psychology: we all have potential to unveil and a purpose to fulfill. We can rule thoughts and behaviors. We have the power to benefit from such resources and construct wellbeing.
Because I personally experienced great help from therapy, I know it works.
I am a curious mental health practitioner who continuously researches the human mind and soul. Licensed as an Associate Mental Health Counselor in the state of Texas, I have been an ICF accredited Executive, Leadership, and Career Coach for more than fifteen years. Previously, I did consulting work for global and national corporations, along with SMEs, a professional phase that taught me about the dynamics of people within systemic, business settings.
Empathy, excellence, enthusiasm, and committed service lead all I do.
Along with a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling, I hold graduate diplomas in Positive Psychology, Business and Marketing, and Organizational Change and have completed certifications in Stress and Resilience, NLP, social skills, business communications, human relations, and more.
Originally from South America (Venezuela), I am an adventurer who relocated internationally five times. One of the gems I have acquired in life is to be able to communicate in different languages, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and a bit of French.