Meet Dr. Ana M. Salazar, LPC-S
“We can work together to empower you.”
Ana M. Salazar, Ph.D., LPC-S
Owner & Clinical Director
Licensed Professional Counselor - Supervisor
Pronouns: she/her/hers
TX License #71856
I am most passionate about helping adults who hold identities from groups intentionally and historically excluded because of their race or ethnicity, gender, sexual or affectional orientation, or ability statuses including intersecting identities. My hope is we can work together to empower you to explore how systems have impacted your life and to lean into your strengths to navigate your own path towards resilience and success; whatever you define that to be.
I commit to talking with you…never at you…in our clinical work together.
I am always open to talking about culture, race, experiences, discrimination, and all of the hard topics of life and our systems today. With over a decade of experience in a wide range of settings, I have helped persons struggling with anxiety, depression, burnout, systemic oppression, and more.
While I approach all sessions & clinical work with compassion, care, and clinical excellence with personalized attention, I do have two things I tell all my clients:
I won’t lie to you & I don’t sugarcoat things.
Who I am Passionate to Help
Latino/Hispanic Communities
Women & Men from Marginalized Communities
LGBTQIA+ Communities
People who need to heal from previous negative therapy experiences
Overachievers & Professionals
Young Adults & Gen Z
Therapists & Counselors
Other Helpers (Nurses, Teachers, etc.)
Therapy Specialties
Women’s Issues
Cultural & Systemic Oppression
Work-Life Balance
Social Anxiety
Self-Esteem & Self-Empowerment
World & System Exhaustion
Clinical Professional Burnout
Life Transitions
Communication Issues
What Therapy With Me Looks Like
I focus sessions on listening to you as a whole person including your cultural story, systemic oppressions, and how you can reengage with your personal cultural healing practices as YOU define them to be.
No topic or concern is off limits; come to sessions as you are to process what YOU want to process.
What I Offer Through Therapy
Individual Therapy for Adults
In-Person Sessions for the Coastal Bend
Virtual Sessions across Texas
Personalized therapy experience
My Therapy Approaches
I will work to shift therapy to fit you, not put you into a mold of what someone says therapy is “supposed” to be.
Relational Cultural Therapy (RCT)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
CBT for Anxiety
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
I have over ten years’ experience in providing therapy, crisis services, community mental health, college counseling, and suicide intervention training services. I focus my therapeutic work in three general areas of the counseling field: teaching, healing, and community wellness.
About Me:
My name is Dr. Ana Salazar but please call me “Dr. Ana”. I am a Latina, an anti-racist Counselor, a mother, counselor educator, LGBTQIA+ advocate, and mom to fur-babies.
I believe in the power of healing & therapy so much I am not afraid to share that I’ve done my own therapy as a client and I’ve also been in couples’ therapy.
My friends think I’m funny, but usually I’m just a GenX speaking truth. I’m not great at social media even though I use it. (@dr.ana.lpcs)
I read way too much; I can absolutely devour a huge novel in a long weekend. I don’t understand the hype around “romantasy” but maybe because I love fantasy & science fiction? (Octavia Butler, Robert Jordan, etc.).
I also know it’s bad for my energy and for survivors, so I’m weeding out my crime podcasts and documentaries because I was obsessed (and not sleeping!) I still enjoy stories of survival, however.
I am also proud to be a first generation college graduate, joining the 1% of Latinas in the United States to have a Ph.D.
About Me:
Obviously, some topics are off limits like my kid and what I went to therapy for, but if it’s important for you to feel safe in our work together, I’ll answer questions about myself, my beliefs, and my work.