Destinee Abrego, LPC

Destinee Abrego is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 18 years of experience in the counseling field. She has provided care to school-aged children, adolescents, and adults, addressing a broad range of emotional and behavioral concerns. Her work draws on long experience with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, anger, LGBT issues, and adjustment disorders, and she also supports clients dealing with stress, addictions, relationship challenges, and related concerns.

Her approach centers on building a strong therapeutic relationship grounded in trust and rapport. She uses an eclectic mix of evidence-informed methods, including solution-focused strategies, cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, attachment-based ideas, mindfulness practices, and client-centered techniques. In sessions she emphasizes clients' strengths, abilities, and practical skills to help them meet individualized goals.

Therapy with Destinee is collaborative and goal oriented. She partners with each person to set attainable objectives that reflect their values and needs, while offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space to explore change. She looks forward to supporting clients as they work toward greater well-being and more effective ways of managing life challenges.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy

Destinee uses client-centered methods that prioritize the individual's experience and perspective, creating a collaborative space where clients guide the focus of sessions while the therapist supports growth and insight. This approach works well for people seeking a strengths-based, empathetic partnership to address personal and relational concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a structured approach that helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and adjustment concerns and lends itself to practical strategies and homework that translate easily to virtual sessions.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. These concrete tools are helpful for clients managing intense emotions, relationship challenges, or impulsive behaviors and can be practiced and reinforced through online work.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Destinee will work with each client to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan over time as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and easier access to care. Clients can connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which helps maintain continuity of support across diverse life circumstances and locations.