Vanessa Longoria-Carter
Compassionate clinician blending therapy and coaching
LPCC, LMFT Texas
- Experience
- 13 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Trauma and abuse, Eating, Depression
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Languages
- English
About Vanessa
Vanessa Longoria-Carter is a licensed clinician in Texas who brings 13 years of professional experience to her practice.
Background and approach
She works with people facing a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, eating struggles, depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, ADHD, relationship and family challenges, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her additional focus areas include attachment and adoption-related concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, dissociation, and fertility and parenting challenges.
She blends evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR, the Gottman Method, and hypnotherapy to create individualized treatment plans. Vanessa emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion, adapting conversations and therapeutic techniques to fit each person’s goals and circumstances.
She also offers coaching for executive and professional development alongside clinical work. Taking the first step toward change is acknowledged as an act of courage, and she aims to provide steady support while clients pursue a more fulfilling and balanced life.
How Vanessa’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Vanessa frequently integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) into her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and building practical skills to change patterns of emotion and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. EMDR involves structured processing of traumatic memories using bilateral stimulation and guided recall to reduce the intensity of distress related to those memories.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Vanessa works with clients to explore their symptoms, goals, and preferences to determine whether techniques like CBT, EMDR, DBT skills, or elements of the Gottman Method or hypnotherapy are the best fit for the presenting concern. This partnership helps create a tailored plan that can evolve as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations within her practice region. These options allow clients to access licensed professionals who can provide ongoing support, teach coping skills, and guide therapeutic work in formats that suit individual routines and comfort levels.
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Experience
13+ years
Licensed
Texas, Texas, Kentucky
Languages
English