Bilingual therapy for Corpus Christi, Texas — meeting your family in both languages

Corpus Christi is a coastal, working South Texas city with a deep, multi-generational Tejano community — families that have been on this stretch of coast for a long time, woven into the refineries, the base, the fishing, and the schools. Language here often runs along generations: an abuela who thinks and prays in Spanish, parents who move easily between both, kids who answer in English. When something painful moves through a family like that, it can be hard to find one person who can sit with each member in the language they actually feel in. I can — Spanish and English are both fully mine, and we can move between them the way your family does.

Most of the people I meet from Corpus aren't in crisis. They're steady, hard-working, and quietly stretched: the shift worker who never quite rests, the mother holding several jobs together, the adult child watching a parent age. We work on low self-esteem, anxiety, grief that never got its turn, and the burnout of being the dependable one for everybody. I draw on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and a holistic, client-centered approach — at your pace, and you decide what we touch and when.

Meeting online fits a working city and a working schedule. There's no drive across town after a long shift, no waiting room, and no one needs to know where you're spending the hour. You log on from home, and it's yours — a rare thing for people who spend most of their week taking care of everyone else.

I'm Maria Teresa Valencia, MA, LPC — a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas (license #64813), licensed in Texas since 2009. I grew up further down the border, in the same South Texas world, so the culture doesn't need translating — it just gets to be the room we work in.