- Attachment work
- CBT techniques
- Solution-focused steps
About Easter
Easter Spates is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 21 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family strain, trauma and abuse, and struggles like grief, addiction, and problems with self-esteem. She also lists guilt and shame among the issues she addresses.
Her practice focuses on practical conversations about what is happening now and what repeating patterns come from earlier relationships. Sessions look at attachment patterns, family of origin issues, communication habits, and how those things affect everyday life. She also helps with parenting stress, caregiving strain, midlife transitions, and questions about life purpose.
Easter uses approaches that include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). That means she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings, listens to each person’s perspective, and works on the thinking and behavior patterns that keep hard feelings going. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques are also part of her toolkit for action-based steps.
She supports people who are processing abandonment, codependency, control issues, and forgiveness concerns. She also helps with intimacy-related struggles and rebuilding self-love when guilt or shame is present. Conversations can include practical steps and small experiments to test new ways of relating.
Sessions are conducted in English and are based in Texas. The practice is suited to adults looking to address personal and relational concerns without focusing on families or couples as formal client groups.
How her approaches fit with online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current emotional patterns. It helps people understand why they react strongly in relationships and supports learning new ways to connect and feel safer with others. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and reflecting back what a person says so they can find their own answers; it works well for people who need time to name feelings and make sense of them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and provides practical exercises and experiments to test new responses to stress, anxiety, or shame.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches suit their needs and goals. That decision is based on what the client wants to change, the patterns they bring, and what feels doable in everyday life.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. They also permit using talking, structured worksheets, and behavioral experiments between sessions so change can be practiced in real life. Licensed professionals often adapt the mix of approaches to suit the pace and goals of the person they are working with.
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Experience
21+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, and struggles like low self-esteem and guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of shame or guilt?
She uses attachment-based thinking, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to look at where those feelings come from and what keeps them active.
How many years has she been practicing?
She has 21 years of experience as a clinician working with adults on relational and personal challenges.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are used.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to start working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.