Services

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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

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
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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.