Meet Dr. Ana M. Salazar, LPC-S

Ana M. Salazar, Ph.D., LPC-S

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.

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 & Areas of Focus

  • 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

My Therapy Approaches

Relational Cultural Therapy (RCT)

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

CBT for Anxiety

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

What I Offer Through Therapy

Individual Therapy for Adults

Personalized therapy experience

In-Person Sessions for the Coastal Bend

Virtual Sessions across Texas

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. Everyone deserves to be well and to draw on their unique cultural and personal strengths.

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, and mom to fur-babies. 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.

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.

Dr. Ana’s Education & Clinical Experience

Licensure

  • Texas Board Approved Supervisor, License #71856

  • Expiration: 8/2025. Approved Supervisor since 07/2021

Education

  • Ph.D., Counselor Education, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (2023).

    • Dissertation: “Creating Safe Spaces: Latino Counselor Educators Advocating for Social Justice in Counselor Education.”

  • M. S., Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (2012)

Clinical Experience

  • Three years community mental health

  • Seven years higher education

  • Two years inpatient behavioral hospital setting

  • Three years supervising LPC Associates

  • Four years supervising clinicians in training

Professional Experience

  • Clinical Director, University Counseling Center

  • Clinical Case Management & Crisis Response

  • Local Mental Health Authority, Clinical Supervisor

  • Inpatient Behavioral Health Technician

Sampling of Research & Presentations

  • National Professional Presentations: Association for Counselor Education & Supervision, Suicide Prevention Symposium, National Latino/a Psychological Association

  • Regional Professional Presentations: Southern Association for Counselor Education & Supervision, Gulf Coast Counseling Association

  • State Professional Presentations: Texas Counseling Association, Texas Association for Counselor Education & Supervision, Texas A&M University Student Affairs Symposium, Texas University & College Counseling Centers Conference