- CBT methods
- DBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Amaranta
Amaranta Penate-Marty is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and life changes. She also focuses on relationship and parenting concerns, LGBT issues, career and coaching, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Amaranta approaches therapy as a practical process. She helps people notice how their thinking affects feelings and behavior. She uses that understanding to develop clearer choices and small, manageable changes. Her work also addresses attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and blended family issues.
Her background includes work with grief, substance-related problems, and mood or personality concerns. She draws on methods that help with emotional regulation and coping after trauma. That experience informs how she supports people coping with divorce, domestic violence, caregiver stress, and aging-related issues.
In sessions she integrates methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness practices, narrative work, and solution-focused strategies. That mix is used to help people reframe difficult memories, practice new ways of responding, and set realistic goals for change. Therapy emphasizes concrete skills alongside personal reflection.
Amaranta values bilingual and bicultural perspectives and brings that awareness into conversations about culture and family interaction. People who want to explore next steps in work, relationships, or wellbeing can begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an initial appointment.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Amaranta blends cognitive behavioral work and dialectical behavior skills alongside mindfulness techniques to help people manage thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that help during intense moments. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention practices that increase awareness of present-moment experience and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaboration. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress is made.
The original biography does not specify session formats, so confirm the current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week and reduce travel time. They also allow for different ways of working such as shorter check-ins or less use of video when bandwidth or quieter surroundings matter. Amaranta uses her CBT, DBT, and mindfulness tools in virtual sessions to teach skills, practice responses, and review progress in ways that fit everyday life.
Areas of expertise
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
11+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, life changes, relationship and parenting concerns, career questions, and related issues listed in her specialties.
How does she approach feeling stuck or directionless?
She uses practical techniques that show how thoughts influence feelings and actions, combined with skill-building from CBT and DBT to help people try different ways of responding.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 11 years of experience working with mood, trauma, grief, and relationship issues and has worked with both North American and Hispanic cultural contexts.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas and practices with that credential in that state.
Can I work with her in my language?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.