Manuel Olvera

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, panic, or emotional stress — or noticing patterns from the past repeating in your relationships — you’re not alone. Unresolved trauma, depression, or anger can affect the way you think, behave, and connect with others. These patterns can also affect how you see yourself — leading to self-doubt, low self-esteem, or a sense of not being good enough.

I’m Manuel Olvera, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. I specialize in helping adults work through anger, anxiety, acute and complex trauma, depression, self-doubt, and relationship issues, so you can feel more calm and balanced. I also welcome clients who struggle with ADHD-related challenges, particularly when emotional regulation or past trauma is involved. Teenagers are also welcome.

In therapy, I aim to listen more than I talk. I offer guidance and explain psychological concepts when they’re helpful, but my main focus is creating space for you to express yourself and process what you're feeling. I ask questions to help you explore your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviors — and I follow your lead.

I use Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, and elements of CBT to support healing at the level of both the mind and body. I also help you explore how past wounds may be affecting your current relationships. For couples, I use the Gottman Method and often work with each partner individually in addition to joint sessions — especially when personal trauma is showing up in the relationship dynamic.

Whether you’re seeking relief from anxiety, struggling with anger, shutdown, or self-doubt — or feeling disconnected from yourself or the people around you — therapy can help. You don’t have to have all the answers. If you’re ready to start, I’d be honored to work with you.

In our first session we will discuss all of the challenges you are facing and we'll go over some of your background information. We'll talk about your goals and what you hope to achieve through therapy. In following sessions we'll build upon what we have talked about previously, as well as processing the experiences you go through on a weekly basis. Hopefully after each session you'll feel like you have been understood and supported and also given another point of view that will be helpful to you.