Meet Our Staff
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, CAGCS
Since 2000, I’ve been working as a certified Counselor who specializes in helping people cope with their issues. I coach my clients in a way that utilizes both their heads and their hearts. I first learned about coaching when I hit a roadblock in my own life and was struggling to move past it. The techniques I developed were so successful that friends and family began asking me for help with their own challenges. This motivated me to turn my newfound passion into a full-time career.
I specialize in working with adults ages 18 to 65+ in addressing the following: grief, trauma, emotion regulation, and adjustment issues related to life changes and stressors across the lifespan. I welcome adults of all ages for individual counseling, I utilize primarily cognitive-behavioral, trauma focused, and existential approaches, but will work to align my therapeutic approach with your specific needs and values. Since the therapeutic relationship is the strongest predictor of success in counseling, I will provide a warm, supportive, and collaborative space for you to explore and grow.
As a Certified Grief Counseling Specialist, I hope to be a companion through your journey towards redefining your life in the context of grief and trauma. Using evidence-based treatment methods, we will work to challenge distressing thoughts, build healthy behaviors, and develop meaning and purpose in your life in response to your individual concerns.
As human beings, we all desire connection and meaning in our lives. Grief, trauma, adjustment issues related to life changes, and distressing thoughts and feelings are often obstacles in our journey towards self-fulfillment. I hope to provide you with a safe, empathic, and non-judgmental space to explore your inner world and reach your individual goals.
Jamie Manning
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Belinda Valenzuela graduated from Texas A&M University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and from Sam Houston State University in 2010 with a master's in counseling with a minor in marriage and family therapy. After 10 years in the mental health field working as an at-risk youth counselor and case manager, Belinda decided to work towards becoming fully licensed, becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate (LPC-A) in 2020 and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in August of 2022. Belinda's work experience over the last 13 years has been diverse in setting and population, ranging from non-profit, rehabilitation, private practice, and university settings. Belinda has worked with diverse ages, from children to older adults, as well as people from various ethnic backgrounds and other varied aspects that can aid in defining one's identity, such as sexuality and gender. Aside from individual counseling, Belinda also has provided psychoeducation in anger management groups, as well as couples and family counseling. In the therapeutic setting, Belinda takes a multi-modal approach, not believing in a one-size-fits-all for any issue a client may bring to counseling, but she is most experienced in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), solution focused brief therapy (SFBT), grief, and existentialism. Above all else, Belinda believes the most important component to therapeutic success is a client feeling safe enough to be vulnerable; this needs to be achieved first for any real work to begin.
Belinda Valnzuela
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”