Teletherapy for Bryan, TX

Stress is a natural result of facing life's challenges and necessary for growth. Finding balance allows us to manage stress. With 34 years of experience working with children, adults, couples and families, I can help you and those you love navigate the journey of growth and self-discovery, develop and prioritize strategies for achieving your goals and find balance. I start by performing a solution-focused interview to identify and build upon your unique strengths and resources. I have faith in the perseverance of the human spirit, given the right amount of time, support and the necessary tools.

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.

I commend you on taking the first step to seek therapy, this already shows one strength in you. Sometimes there are obstacles that get in the way and one can find it hard to move past those obstacles. Some of those obstacles could be depression, anxiety, daily life challenges, and marital conflicts. Are you seeking pre-marital counseling, finding it hard to see eye to eye with your partner, having conflicts? My mission is to provide a warm inviting atmosphere that will enable you to find your strengths, create effective goals leading to successful interventions for you and or your partner.

Accepting new clients. My passion and absolute privilege is to help people of all walks and stages of life grow and heal. My goal is for each client to feel safe, heard, and understood from the first minute of their session until the last. I utilize a Christian worldview and look at the whole client to help each person find and pursue a healthy balance mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually within themselves and in relationships. My client-centered, strengths-based approach offers clients many opportunities to gain greater self-awareness, learn tools, and facilitate growth in all areas.

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.

Now Accepting Patients 18 years of age and older. I am not currently seeing children or high school students. Appointments provided Monday-Thursday from 10:00AM- 5:00PM I provide both in person and online appointments. In Network with AETNA, BCBS TX, United Health Care (UHC) and Traditional Medicare Part B. Depression, Anxiety, Grief and Loss, Chronic Illness, Caregiver support, Life limiting, Disease, Fertility Issues, Fetal/Infant loss, Relationship issues, Pre and post Bariatric Patients, Self-esteem, Coping skills, Stress Management, College related issues Short-term, solution focused cognitive behavior therapy.

Accepting New Clients: Let’s face it relationships are complicated! Whether it is with yourself, your spouse, partner, family, or friends, relationships challenge us on all levels. I explore how emotions, thoughts, and beliefs impact personal well-being and the health of our relationships. My experiences and Christian faith have shaped me to understand that we need healthy emotional connection, and to understand where we are going, we need to know how we arrived at this crossroad. Change begins through the therapeutic relationship built on trust, acceptance, honesty, and emotional connection.

My clients seek therapy for a variety of reasons such as trauma, anxiety, depression, or hyperactivity. Building trust between client and counselor is the most important first step. Every client is unique, so together we explore effective ways to work through each issue and set realistic goals.

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.

Whether dealing with past trauma, current stresses, relationship challenges, or feeling "I just can't do it today," we'll work together to find your strengths to face these issues head-on.

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.

As we go through life, we can experience difficulties and challenges. Reaching out to someone for help can be difficult so I commend you for doing so. As a therapist, I am here to listen and provide a safe space in which to share those concerns. Every person is unique so I take time to develop a strong therapeutic relationship based on trust while tailoring the therapy to each person. -Kristina Walters, MA, LPC

Do you struggle with feeling disconnected from others or suffer with a loss of your sense of self that affects your relationships and overall wellness? Do you feel alone, overwhelmed, or exhausted from trying to make things better but not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel? Do you hope that life can somehow be better? More connected and less lonely? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious and unsure about how to show up as their genuine self and live a healthy and fulfilling life. We believe that we are our best when we are in connected, growing, and thriving relationships with ourselves and others.

(Currently NOT Accepting New Clients) Supervised by Amanda Gray, MA, LPCS. My philosophy as a counselor is to provide a safe, non-judgmental space for you and meet you where you are in your mental wellness journey. I believe YOU are the expert in your life; by tapping into guidance, support, and empowerment, I can collaborate with you to aid in the change of your mental health and in reaching your hopes for the future. My promise is that you will never sit alone in the darkness of your mental health struggles- I'll be right there next to you and when the time is right, I'll take your hand and guide you back out into the light.

"Reaching out for professional help with personal problems can be a difficult thing to do for many people. I commend you for taking that first step by looking here. Every therapist has their own approach to therapy, so I encourage you to explore your options and find a therapist you feel comfortable and confident with. As a therapist, I take the approach that every person is unique and therefore have unique needs. I like to get to know my patient and tailor therapy to best fit each client." - Amanda Gray, MA, LPCS

Feeling “Stuck” can feel and look like a lot of things. I understand the stress and overwhelm that can well up from searching for language to articulate your emotional turmoil. Stress tends to invade our daily routines, disrupt our sleep patterns, strain relationships, and compromise our overall sense of wellbeing.

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.

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.

My therapeutic training is a combination of Gottman, DBT, CBT & EMDR that compliment my therapeutic philosophy: each client possess invaluable personal strengths that serve in healing, personal growth, and relational satisfaction. Counseling allows for safely discovering of "what happened to me" to integration "what do I want do now" to dissemination "how can I govern my future."