Marcos Villareal - Licensed Therapist in Texas

Accepting new clients

20 years experience

About Marcos Villareal

As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas, I bring over two decades of experience helping individuals and couples navigate life’s emotional and relational challenges. My practice focuses on supporting clients through relationship difficulties, communication struggles, anxiety, depression, bipolar-related concerns, stress, and major life transitions.

I provide a compassionate, collaborative, and personalized therapeutic approach designed to meet each client’s unique needs and experiences. I work with individuals and couples seeking to strengthen emotional connection, improve communication, manage conflict, and develop healthier patterns within their relationships and daily lives.

My therapeutic style emphasizes self-awareness, emotional resilience, and practical strategies for meaningful growth and healing. Drawing from extensive clinical experience and a holistic, person-centered framework, I strive to create a supportive environment where clients feel understood, empowered, and capable of building more balanced and fulfilling lives.

Ready to talk with Marcos? Marcos is accepting new clients online.

Work with Marcos

Licenses

LPC

79064

Professional experience

Addictions
ADHD
Anger management
Bipolar disorder
Career difficulties
Coping with life changes
Depression
Family conflicts
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
LGBT
Parenting issues
Relationship issues
Self esteem
Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse

Additional Focus Areas

Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Antisocial personality
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Gender dysphoria
Guilt and shame
HIV / AIDS
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Narcissism
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Paranoia
Phobias
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Post-traumatic stress
Prejudice and discrimination
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sex addiction
Sexual dysfunction
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Somatization
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Clinical Approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Attachment-Based Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Gottman Method
Internal Family Systems
Mindfulness Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy
Somatic Therapy
Trauma-Focused Therapy

Languages

English

15 Reviews

“I’m really pleased and happy with all the professional guidance that he has given me that that’s why I have continued my services with him on the app.”

“Marcos is very perceptive and picks up on my concerns and present issues. He is very easy to talk to and I established a connection from our very first session. I’m glad that BetterHelp matched us as therapist-client.”

“Very nice and understanding I would recommend”

“Straight to the point. Offers exercises to do outside of session”

“Marcos has been EXCELLENT. He shows up as a super experienced listener that truly is nonjudgemental and offers beautiful reframes, techniques, homework and astute summaries of what's happening in the relationship dynamics. We both feel seen and heard.”

“Marcos guides us in exactly the way we need and helps us navigate a variety of challenges in our marriage and we’re so grateful to have been paired with him.”

“Marcos is wonderful. Professional, prompt, knowledgeable, gentle and challenges me at the same time. I’ve seen him for years.. wow close to half a decade now!”

“He is a very capable therapist, who listens and offers help that I have included in my life and it helps me.”

“Marcos really helped me come to terms with everything going on in my life and helped me develop the tools I needed to succeed where I needed them.”

“Marcos is a thoughtful and fair therapist. We always feel heard and respected.”

“Although our time was short, Marcos is an excellent therapist and I would highly recommend him”

“Marcos is great at identifying and getting to the root of issues I bring up to him. He listens intently and offers me very meaningful advice. He is definitely the most truthful therapist I have had, and he gives me insightful and honest opinions which I personally appreciate.”

“Marcos listens, commends, and challenges me in different ways. Sometimes I know exactly when he is challenging my thoughts and ideas. Other times it takes time and hindsight. In the end, I always find myself looping back to realize why he asked what he asked or challenged my ideas and thoughts in the ways he does. I’m so grateful for Marcos (:”

“Marcos is such a kind soul and an incredible therapist. He really pushes to ask the deep questions. He'll ask me something, and then when I respond casually, he'll often simply ask, "Why?", prompting me to really consider why I believe the things I believe about myself. He is very thorough, and he's also personable and friendly. He will listen to you and work for you, and not try and steer you off the path you set for yourself. 10/10, absolutely recommend, I brag to my friends about my therapist.”

“Nice guy that made it easy for me to open up.”

These reviews represent a few of the most recent positive reviews from the therapist's clients on BetterHelp. Some people's experience may be different.