- Sleep focused care
- Skills based
- Collaborative approach
About Cierra
Cierra Batiste is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas who helps people manage stress, sleep problems, anxiety, depression, and substance-related concerns. She offers straightforward support for relationship and intimacy issues, grief, anger, self-esteem, and career strain. Her approach is practical and collaborative, aimed at small, workable steps that fit into daily life.
She trained and worked in Tennessee during her undergraduate and graduate studies, then moved to Dallas, Texas where she practices. Her clinical background includes work with trauma, depression, substance use, and youth who have faced serious challenges. She balances part-time private practice with a leadership role at a behavioral hospital while pursuing doctoral study in a counseling education and supervision program.
Cierra uses person-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. She also draws on acceptance and commitment strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, and mindfulness tools depending on what a person needs. Sessions focus on goals you set together and skills you can use between meetings.
She has 13 years of clinical experience and is working toward a supervision credential to expand mentoring and oversight skills. Cierra enjoys outdoor activities and exploring restaurants and new cultures when she is not working. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to make sessions feel useful from the start.
For sleep and rest concerns she combines practical behavior changes with mindfulness and cognitive strategies to improve routines and decrease nighttime worry.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online sessions using CBT focus on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying small behavioral experiments between meetings to improve sleep, mood, or stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches noticing difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, trauma reactions, and sleep-related worry. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and working at the client’s pace, offering a supportive space to talk through challenges and clarify goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which tools to use based on goals, preferences, and what feels useful in session. That means plans can shift over time as needs change.
Confirm the current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time. It also supports using practical exercises and sleep-focused strategies between sessions to build routines that help with rest.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
13+ years
Credentials
Texas, Arizona
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Cierra commonly help with?
Cierra supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy and eating struggles, and sleep or parenting challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is person-centered and collaborative, using clear, practical steps. She mixes cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and acceptance strategies to match each person’s needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 13 years of counseling experience, including work in Tennessee and in Dallas, Texas, and roles that include practice in a behavioral hospital and private practice.
What credentials and location information are on record?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and practices out of Texas.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can I work with her from outside the United States?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions scheduled and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.