About Heriberto
Heriberto Pena Jr is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, LGBTQ issues, relationship strain, and major life changes. He keeps sessions straightforward and calm so clients can talk through what matters most. He uses clear language and practical steps to make therapy easy to follow.
He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new coping habits.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. He also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. Clients can expect a conversational style that mixes short-term problem solving with attention to longer patterns.
Sessions often focus on small, doable goals and on skills that can be practiced between meetings. He works to make the process feel collaborative rather than directive. Heriberto has four years of experience as a social worker and is listed as LCSW, TX LCSW 58767.
He offers therapy in English and practices from a place of respect for each person’s background and identity. He supports people dealing with caregiver stress, attachment questions, communication problems, anger about past hurts, and struggles with guilt or shame. He also helps with issues such as obsessive thoughts, impulsivity, and challenges tied to aging and life transitions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Heriberto uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and learn new behaviors, which often suits work on anxiety, stress, and compulsive habits. Motivational Interviewing is useful when someone feels unsure about change; it focuses on strengthening a person’s own reasons for taking the next steps. Psychodynamic ideas are used to look at repeating relationship or emotional patterns and where they might come from.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then shape sessions to match those needs. That collaborative process helps pick techniques that feel useful and realistic for the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. Video calls let people read facial cues and do deeper conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while matching the format to what works best for the person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English