About Mayra
Mayra Tovar is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to create a calm, approachable space where clients feel heard. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on clear steps forward rather than jargon.
Mayra spends sessions helping clients name what feels hard and plan small changes that add up. She often addresses self-esteem, communication problems, and issues around attachment and codependency.
Background and approach
Practical skills and real-life examples are central to her work. People bring concerns such as abandonment fears, impulse control, or feelings of isolation. She also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, domestic violence history, immigration stress, and broader multicultural concerns.
Mood disorders and commitment issues are part of her caseload as well. With three years of clinical experience, Mayra applies evidence-based therapeutic techniques in straightforward ways. Her Texas license is LCSW 111126, and she uses that background to guide treatment choices.
Sessions are available through various online formats. Mayra helps clients set achievable goals and checks progress each step of the way. The aim is to reduce overwhelming feelings and restore more control over daily life.
Conversations are practical, focused, and tailored to each person’s situation.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Mayra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and relationship patterns. One common approach helps clients understand attachment and codependency patterns by tracing how past relationships shape current reactions; this can reduce repeated conflict and increase healthier relating. Another focuses on mood and anxiety management through structured skill practice, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes to lower daily distress and improve routines.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what feels most helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay aligned with their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free option is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or step-by-step problem solving between longer sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent support while fitting therapy into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish