Adoption Therapists in 75209
Zoey Nelson
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Dallas, TX 75209
Hello! I know it takes a lot of courage to make the choice to seek help. You have accomplished the first and most important step of starting your journey to improve your overall well-being. My desire is to gently assist you in achieving your unique goals through a supportive process moving at a pace comfortable for you. While doing so, I commit to providing a compassionate, private and collaborative environment so you feel safe and secure while we work together.
Hello! I know it takes a lot of courage to make the choice to seek help. You have accomplished the first and most important step of starting your journey to improve your overall well-being. My desire is to gently assist you in achieving your unique goals through a supportive process moving at a pace comfortable for you. While doing so, I commit to providing a compassionate, private and collaborative environment so you feel safe and secure while we work together.
Courtney Hicks
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT-S, DBT-LBC
Verified Verified
Dallas, TX 75209
Courtney is one of just three DBT-Linehan Board Certified Clinicians in north Texas. She works with adolescents and adults using Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help clients build a life that they believe to be truly worth living! She offers telehealth across the state of Texas. Courtney and her team at North Texas DBT Associates provide comprehensive DBT, which is comprised of highly structured weekly individual sessions, weekly group skills classes, and access to 24/7 phone coaching support. Courtney also offers DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol for PTSD. For more information, visit our website, ntxdbt.com.
Courtney is one of just three DBT-Linehan Board Certified Clinicians in north Texas. She works with adolescents and adults using Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help clients build a life that they believe to be truly worth living! She offers telehealth across the state of Texas. Courtney and her team at North Texas DBT Associates provide comprehensive DBT, which is comprised of highly structured weekly individual sessions, weekly group skills classes, and access to 24/7 phone coaching support. Courtney also offers DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol for PTSD. For more information, visit our website, ntxdbt.com.
The Center in Waxahachie
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Dallas, TX 75209
The Center provides comprehensive and compassionate mental health care for individuals of all ages. Our team in Waxahachie specializes in working with children, teens, and adults, and we are dedicated to helping our clients improve their overall well-being. Whether you are dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, or other mental health issues, we are here to support you on your journey towards healing and growth. Our evidence-based therapy approaches are tailored to meet your unique needs and goals, and we offer a safe and supportive environment to help you find your way through the difficulties that life may bring.
The Center provides comprehensive and compassionate mental health care for individuals of all ages. Our team in Waxahachie specializes in working with children, teens, and adults, and we are dedicated to helping our clients improve their overall well-being. Whether you are dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, or other mental health issues, we are here to support you on your journey towards healing and growth. Our evidence-based therapy approaches are tailored to meet your unique needs and goals, and we offer a safe and supportive environment to help you find your way through the difficulties that life may bring.
Desmond Shepherd
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Dallas, TX 75209
If you feel that life is almost unbearable, or that a personal crisis has made it worse, and you would like it to be better, I'd like to help you. Maybe you would just like to change the trajectory of your life, because the stress, anxiety, and depressive feelings you're experiencing is not normal. Know this, your life is important, it always is. Your mental health is also important, now more than ever. I can help you learn to manage the negative emotions you are experiencing. I will help you find solutions to the anxiety, anger, depression, life's failures, relationship and marriage problems, of a stressed out life.
If you feel that life is almost unbearable, or that a personal crisis has made it worse, and you would like it to be better, I'd like to help you. Maybe you would just like to change the trajectory of your life, because the stress, anxiety, and depressive feelings you're experiencing is not normal. Know this, your life is important, it always is. Your mental health is also important, now more than ever. I can help you learn to manage the negative emotions you are experiencing. I will help you find solutions to the anxiety, anger, depression, life's failures, relationship and marriage problems, of a stressed out life.
Jan Scott
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC
Verified Verified
Dallas, TX 75209
Are you struggling with making a change but afraid to make that step? Are you in a relationship that's painful, or do you find yourself surrounded by friends but have no one to talk to? I've worked with hundreds of clients just like this and I can help you. Hi, I'm Dr. Jan Scott and I've had a successful psychotherapy practice in the Dallas-Forth area for over 40 years, and I would love to hear about your unique needs.
Are you struggling with making a change but afraid to make that step? Are you in a relationship that's painful, or do you find yourself surrounded by friends but have no one to talk to? I've worked with hundreds of clients just like this and I can help you. Hi, I'm Dr. Jan Scott and I've had a successful psychotherapy practice in the Dallas-Forth area for over 40 years, and I would love to hear about your unique needs.
Larneka Lavalais LPC, PLLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, MEd, CSC, LPC-S, NCC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Dallas, TX 75209 (Online Only)
Not accepting new clients
I am here to help clients find hope in the midst of their storm. My practice style is client centered, honest, compassionate and enthusiastic. I focus on uncovering my client's strengths, building them up, and encouraging them to live their best life possible.
I am here to help clients find hope in the midst of their storm. My practice style is client centered, honest, compassionate and enthusiastic. I focus on uncovering my client's strengths, building them up, and encouraging them to live their best life possible.
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Adoption Therapists
Does my adopted child need therapy?
Not every adopted child needs therapy. However, many can benefit from seeing an adoption-informed therapist, especially if they were victims of abuse or neglect, appear withdrawn or disconnected, have behavioral or developmental issues (which may or may not be related to their adoption), are struggling with feelings of grief or loss surrounding their birth parents, or find it difficult to establish an identity, a challenge that often becomes most apparent during adolescence.
When should adoptive parents seek therapy?
Prospective parents can benefit from therapy even before an adoption—for example, to voice worries and fears; to reconcile infertility struggles, if relevant; or simply to prepare themselves for parenthood. After the adoption, parents who are struggling to bond with their child; are unsure how to talk about adoption or related issues, such as race; or whose child is dealing with developmental, behavioral, or psychiatric concerns can address these and other issues with the help of an adoption-competent therapist.
Is family therapy appropriate for adoptive families?
Family therapy can be invaluable for strengthening the bond between adoptive parents and children, helping the latter feel more secure in their place in the family. Family therapy can also help adoptive families navigate complex communication issues—for example, parents who feel uncomfortable discussing race with their child, who in turn feels invalidated by their silence, or a child who has questions about his birth parents but avoids asking them out of fear of hurting his adoptive parents’ feelings.
What therapy is not appropriate for adoption issues?
A discredited therapy known as “attachment therapy” (sometimes called “holding therapy” or “rebirthing therapy”) should not be used to treat adopted and foster children, though it was largely designed for this population. Attachment therapy involves restraining, coercing, and punishing the child in order for them to “release” negative emotions and attach to their new caregivers—techniques that are abusive and dangerous and have even proven fatal in some cases.