Licensed Professional Counselor
Esmeralda Cardenas
LPC, PMH-C
About
Meet Esmeralda
Esmeralda Cardenas is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Helotes and certified in perinatal mental health. She specializes in maternal mental health, supporting mothers through pregnancy, postpartum and parenting, and she works with dads too. Many of her clients seem to be coping well but feel overwhelmed inside, carrying anxiety, intrusive thoughts, guilt, identity shifts and strain in their relationships. She also helps adults and couples with depression, trauma, ADHD and grief. Her therapy is collaborative and structured, offering practical tools and deeper insight to help clients regulate emotions and rebuild confidence, using CBT, ACT, DBT, cognitive processing therapy and somatic, trauma-informed care. She sees clients online.
Specialties
Top specialties
Also works with
- Trauma & PTSD
- ADHD
- Grief
- Life transitions
- Self-esteem
- Stress & burnout
- Couples
- Family
- Postpartum & perinatal
Issues
Treatment approach
How Esmeralda works
Client focus
Who Esmeralda sees
Fees & insurance
Cost of sessions
Insurance accepted 4
- Payment options
- Insurance notes
- Curative; Lyra Health; Optum; Oscar Health; UnitedHealthcare / Optum EAP; superbill for out-of-network
- Payment notes
- American Express, Cash, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Visa, Zelle
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Qualifications
Training & license
- License
- LPC · TX · 71039
- Experience
- 13 years
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Location & availability
Where to find Esmeralda
Online sessions in TX
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