Parenting Therapists in Georgetown, TX

Carmela enjoys working with Adolescents, Couples, Individuals, Families, & Groups addressing the issues of adolescents, parenting , marriage, divorce, change, grief, communication, family disputes, & crisis. Carmela utilizes a Cognitive Behavioral Approach with "supportive confrontation" to assist & facilitate change within individual dynamics, focusing on one's strengths while building on their perceived "weaknesses". Perception Is Everything!~ Carmela has served as Senior Supervisor, Juvenile Probation Officer, & Family Preservation & PROMPT Program Supervisor and Family Therapist providing mental health counseling services to court ordered juveniles and families within homes, school, & community settings. Carmela has experience working with Military personnel & families through deployments of Desert Storm & Somalia.

I am currently not taking new clients due to the death of my spouse, in the fall of 2020. It may be 6 months or so, before I can welcome individuals, couples, teens and children having difficulty adjusting to change in their life. I work with all ages: grandparent, parent , young adult, and children (K-12). I have compassion for the struggles that life's journey may bring you. In fact, my tagline is "helping you, along 'life's journey' ". My primary area of counseling is grief and loss of any kind, with adjustments to daily living and re-establishing purpose and meaning.

In a blink of an eye, you're now a parent of a tween/teen(s). Your child has become w/drawn, negative, loss of interest & enjoyment of activities they once enjoyed. There's a change in their sleep, eating habits, doing poorly in school, isolating from friends and family, showing risky or harmful behaviors, even possible suicide thoughts. Your child shares with you that they feel depressed, anxious and don’t want to go to school. You try asking them what’s wrong, just to be yelled, “nothing, you wouldn’t even understand. You turn to your partner for support just to find yourself feeling angry, emotionally overwhelmed, invalidated.

NOTE: Tonya Hiland, LCSW is TEMPORARILY NOT taking new clients. I offer individual and group mental health counseling to children, adolescents and families. My primary goal is to assist the client in identifying strengths to improve personal growth and success. My therapeutic focus is strength-based integrated with various other therapeutic approaches (i.e. solution-focused, cognitive behavioral, etc.) depending on client need. Often the individual presenting issue actually lies within key relationships of client; therefore it may be necessary to schedule time with both the client and member(s) of the client's family system. This will only occur with client permission.

I have 17 years specialized training & experience in body-centered psychotherapies, working with trauma, post traumatic stress & moral injury. Neuroscience confirms trauma resides in the body; we know the body's wisdom guides the release of trauma perfectly with adequate safety, effective "witnessing," & mindful inner attention. Distressing thoughts, beliefs & social inhibition are the primary barriers to the body's ability to release trauma & re-wire the neurological system in a transformational process that decades of "talk therapy" could never accomplish. These powerful, highly effective interventions assure the debilitating effects of trauma are no longer something people must "live with."