Individual therapy, couples counseling, family therapy, and teen counseling — in person in Houston and Darien, and by secure telehealth across Texas and Connecticut.
Counseling Services
- Adult therapy
- Teen therapy
- Individual & family therapy
- Couples counseling
- Virtual therapy
- Therapy for moms & perinatal support
Specializations & Focus
- Mental Health Counseling: Manages conditions like anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress.
- Trauma & Grief Counseling: Provides specialized clinical support for processing acute loss, life-disrupting transitions, or traumatic events.
- Trauma-Informed Care: An approach to all our work that puts safety, trust, and your pace first, with awareness of how trauma affects people.
Focus areas include:
- Women’s Issues
- ADHD
- Parenting
- Relationship Issues
- Family Conflict
- Spirituality
- Anger Management
- Peer Relationships
- Life Coaching
Ages Served
Preteens, teens, adults, and older adults.
Session Formats
- Individual Counseling: One-on-one sessions tailored to personal goals and emotional well-being.
- Couples / Marriage Counseling: Focuses on communication, conflict resolution, and relationship satisfaction.
- Family Therapy: Examines household dynamics, systemic roles, and multi-member interactions.
- Group Counseling: Brings together peers facing similar challenges (such as grief or addiction recovery) to share support.
- Online & Telehealth Counseling: Delivers therapy virtually via secure video or phone for increased accessibility.
Therapeutic Approaches, Explained
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Focuses on identifying and shifting negative thought patterns and behaviors.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Used primarily to process and reframe traumatic memories.
- Humanistic / Client-Centered Counseling: Prioritizes personal growth, empathy, and self-awareness.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Helps you accept difficult thoughts and feelings, clarify what matters to you, and take steps toward the life you want.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Works with emotions directly to help couples and individuals understand their patterns and strengthen connection.
- Family Systems: Looks at how family relationships and roles shape each person’s experience, and works with the whole system.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Builds on your strengths and what already works, focusing on practical steps toward the future you want.
- Strength-Based: Centers your existing strengths and resources as the foundation for change.
- Mindfulness: Uses present-moment awareness practices to help you respond to stress and emotions with more steadiness.
- Somatic Practices: Pays attention to the body’s signals and sensations as part of healing, alongside talk.
- Positive Psychology: Focuses on well-being, resilience, and what helps people thrive, not only on reducing symptoms.
- Culturally Sensitive: Care that respects your background, identity, and lived experience.
- Faith-Informed: Makes room for your faith and spirituality in the work, if and how you want it included.
Coaching
Coaching is a separate, non-clinical service focused on goals, decisions, and action steps, rather than counseling or treatment for a mental health condition. Learn more about coaching.