Marriage Counseling Therapists in Brenham, TX

I work with honest clients needing help to restore a damaged marriage, relationship, or get thru grief over loss of a loved one. Women need encouragement in life stage changes and abuse or other unavoidable suffering. Parents also seek help for their teens in anxiety/depression over peers, loneliness, goals, and academics.

Are you struggling with challenges in your life? You are not alone! You can expect compassionate, nonjudgmental, professional attention based on proven therapeutic care. Adults, couples, teens & children of all ages are welcome! I see people for a variety of concerns, including, but not limited to, mood problems, anger issues, marital challenges, parenting, grief, trauma, & abuse. I will work with you toward your personal goals in therapy. My services combine the best in time-tested help with belief in your potential for healing, faith in the human spirit, & deep respect for you. Call for an appointment. Evening hours available.

Carrying the weight of anxiety, grief, disconnection from those around you, maybe even from yourself, can be overwhelming at times. It can be difficult to navigate these things alone. I believe in the power of the therapeutic, client-focused relationship as a catalyst for exploration and healing. My work with clients focuses on guiding people as they process life transitions, challenges and new opportunities. I walk alongside you in making a shift in your mindset to a place aligned with your core values and truth. I maintain a holistic perspective integrating mind, body, and spirit to empower every client in reaching his/her goals.

I have been a Licensed Professional Counselor twenty six years. I have broad experiences working for the Mental Health Mental Retardation Authority, a psychiatric hospital and for two Samaritan Counseling Centers (non-profit organization). I have been in private practice seven years. I work with adults, couples and families. I work most extensively with co-dependent women. Helping them improve their self-esteem and make healthier decisions for themselves and their families is a very rewarding experience. I also work extensively with persons suffering from depression, anxiety and grief.

Currently Accepting New Clients. I am an interpersonal process/person-centered therapist. I believe that many clients experience mental health concerns that are interpersonal in nature. This could include relationships with spouse/partner, family, siblings, co-workers, employers, God and/or SELF. Within relationships we experience our emotions and our therapeutic relationship becomes a tool for addressing these concerns. I tend to be a direct therapist and share my feelings, thoughts and reactions. I use a lot of metaphor and narrative in therapy and expect clients to come prepared to talk about things in therapy.

Life can be challenging and at some point, those “challenges” can be a bit more than we know how to tackle on our own. Whether you are simply seeking a healthier lifestyle, focusing on managing relationships, or needing support to get through a life-altering crisis or traumatic event, therapy can help. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, bi-polar disorder, grief or any other issue, there is hope. You may feel hesitant at first to seek assistance, but once you do, you will feel more confident knowing you are taking the beginning steps to a better life and more improved you.

NOTE: My goal is to help clients identify and more successfully manage challenges that interfere with their daily quality of life. Together we build new habits and thought processes that create balance, direction and hope. I partner with my clients as we assess issues, set goals and work together to achieve change. In addition, I have specialized training in trauma utilizing EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.)

My clients express honest problems and appreciate respect, practical tools, and compassion in generating options. They are patient with the process but value a timely and efficient treatment plan outlining our goals. Trust is a must in every session as we move past crisis to changing areas over time.

Everybody can face different challenges in life. Let me help you or your loved one navigate those challenges in a safe environment. For my clients, my goal is to create an open, non-judgemental space where everybody feels welcome at all times. I hope to create a safe space where clients can share each challenge and we can work together to seek positive changes.

I have been in practice for many years focusing on using techniques like EMDR and hypnosis that help my clients move through their issues more quickly than using talk therapy alone. Anxiety is one of my specialties. It is often connected with depression, grief, and addictions. Those are also areas I have a great many years of experience in working with. I have recently become a Medicare provider because I can relate to the many issues that come with aging.

Congratulations on taking the first step toward prioritizing yourself and your mental health. If you are on this site, you have already made progress. Let's talk about how you can continue. Everyday life, in addition to recent stressors, can weigh heavily on our shoulders and we may not realize how it is affecting us until our body starts reacting. If you are feeling overwhelmed, less motivated to do activities you once enjoyed, are lashing out at people you love, come talk to me. You are not alone. These are just a few of the common feelings of a larger issue. I can help you process them and develop a plan for a brighter tomorrow.

I am here to help those struggling with unprocessed grief over trauma, abuse, and toxic home environments. Unprocessed grief often plays out in life through symptoms of codependence, relationship issues, anxiety/depression, and addiction that hinder us from living in freedom.

If you are reading this then you have made a huge step on your path to healing and help. I am here to walk with you along that path providing comforting, challenging and helpful tools as we learn more about what you are going through. Once we identify the darkness of the past, you can then take steps now into truth and love as you live out your life as you were meant to, full of hope and peace.

If you are looking for a holistic, integrative, and personal approach to your mental health and well-being, then you have found your place. Our therapists respect your individual journey and the challenges you may face or are facing. We strive to help you find your own place of healing by acknowledging, embracing, and allowing you to come to understand yourself as a unique and wonderfully made spiritual being. There is not a "one size fits all' answer or fix for the issues you may be experiencing, so we creatively integrate different modalities as needed.

My approach when meeting and treating new clients is simple: you are not alone. We will start there. I work with individuals, couples, and families that find themselves struggling with relationships, anger, depression, hopelessness, addictions of all sort, anxiety and everything in between. I want to walk alongside my clients to help them find their true selves and find meaning in whatever they do and whoever they intend to be. I use person-centered, cognitive-behavioral techniques, alongside skills building and mindfulness.

You don't have to suffer in siIence anymore. In our fast changing world, finding balance can be difficult and may even seem impossible at times. Feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and the thoughts of giving up make it hard to push forward when you have conflicting goals, objectives, and situations in your life. They can seem to happen all at once, and it feels like they are all demanding our energy, thoughts, and immediate choices in order to progress and change. Anxious or depressing thoughts and feelings accompany the trying times of life, and therapy can be a way to get yourself and/or your family up to optimal functioning.

Finding a therapist is often really difficult in the Brazos Valley. Oakwood Roots works to be responsive to new clients. With over 20 clinicians on staff, from students who offer low fee counseling to our associates and licensed clinicians with more experience and specializations, Roots wants to be here to help. We see kids, teens, college students, adults, couples, and families, and we regularly offer low-fee groups and workshops for folks that are looking to supplement their individual therapy or for folks who just want to grow a little with others from the community.

Our psychological, emotional, and social well being is an important aspect of our overall health. In fact, when our mental health is out of balance it could have a negative impact on our physical health and vice versa. Common factors that affect our mental health include loss of a loved one, medical diagnosis, relational and family issues, difficulty finding life/work balance, job loss or work dissatisfaction, life transitions, and past/current traumatic events. These are part of living and being human. Counseling is one resource that could help you get through these difficult times, to process your feelings and learn coping tools.

Accepting New Clients- I have a process-oriented approach to counseling, and consider myself an interpersonal counselor. I work toward understanding how family of origin (and other impactful relationships) has played a part in the current and present relationships that exists in the client's world. Within therapy, I like to focus on the process of the relationship the client is having inside the session, which usually mirrors the relationships outside the session.