Max
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-S (he, him)


Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $150
- Couple Sessions $150
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
Payment Methods
American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, VisaInsurance
- AARP
- Aetna
- Aetna EAP
- Ambetter
- Anthem
- Anthem EAP
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Community Health Choice
- Curative
- Evernorth EAP
- Medicare
- Molina Healthcare
- Optum
- Oscar Health
- Surest
- TriWest
- UnitedHealthcare / Optum Medicaid
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- WellCare
- Workplace Options
- Zelis Healthcare
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Texas / 62615 Max Christopher Arzola
- Attended University of Houston School of Social Work, Masters in Clinical Social Work, Graduated 2016
- Degree/Diploma from The University of Texas - Austin BA Psychology / 2008
Education and Years In Practice
Additional Credentials
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Mood Disorders
- Child
- Trauma and PTSD
Expertise
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Body Image
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Cultural conflicts
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- isolation
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Neurodivergence
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Polyamory & ENM
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Psychosis
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sex-Positive & Kink Friendly
- Sexual Abuse
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Veterans
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Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
- Attachment-based
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing (CPT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dance Movement Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Energy Psychology
- Existential
- Experiential Therapy
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gestalt
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Person-Centered
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Strength-Based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Trauma Focused
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Empathy First Clinical Counseling and Consulting
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7790 West Grand Parkway South
Suite 103
Richmond, TX 77406
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Empathy First Counseling
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suite 102
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Psychiatry and Behavior Center
7790 West Grand Parkway South
suite 103
Richmond, TX 77406
(832) 850-2612Group Practice
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