SE Behavioral Consulting
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, LCDC, NCC, ACS
Verified Verified
Stafford, TX 77477  (Online Only)
We specialize in treating individuals and family systems including addressing children's needs through behavioral and person centered therapy.
SE Behavioral Consulting is dedicated to serving clients with professional and effective behavioral health services. Our company provides quality services that enrich and strengthen the lives of our citizens. We offer an array of services to support those challenged with behavioral health concerns. Our mission is to provide optimal therapeutic services to improve the quality of life for persons suffering with personal issues, traumatic experiences and mental illness through professional care and support. We provide high quality, safe and effective services that incorporates cultural diversity and the dignity of the individual.
We specialize in treating individuals and family systems including addressing children's needs through behavioral and person centered therapy.
SE Behavioral Consulting is dedicated to serving clients with professional and effective behavioral health services. Our company provides quality services that enrich and strengthen the lives of our citizens. We offer an array of services to support those challenged with behavioral health concerns. Our mission is to provide optimal therapeutic services to improve the quality of life for persons suffering with personal issues, traumatic experiences and mental illness through professional care and support. We provide high quality, safe and effective services that incorporates cultural diversity and the dignity of the individual.
(832) 947-7806 View (832) 947-7806
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Bridget Thomas
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, LCDC, SAP
Verified Verified
Stafford, TX 77477
I specialize in working with people with depression, anxiety, anger management, domestic violence, grief/trauma and loss issues, relationship issues, family, parenting, co-occurring disorders, substance use disorders, and stress issues.
I have over 20 years of experience working with adults, adolescents and their families who are dealing with a variety of behavioral health, alcohol and drug abuse issues. My experience has shown me that by changing unhealthy patterns, expressing fears and concerns and taking gentle risks, it is possible to live a satisfying life regardless of what or how long your struggle. I use a combination of techniques depending on issues presented and we will work together on both short and long term goals.
I specialize in working with people with depression, anxiety, anger management, domestic violence, grief/trauma and loss issues, relationship issues, family, parenting, co-occurring disorders, substance use disorders, and stress issues.
I have over 20 years of experience working with adults, adolescents and their families who are dealing with a variety of behavioral health, alcohol and drug abuse issues. My experience has shown me that by changing unhealthy patterns, expressing fears and concerns and taking gentle risks, it is possible to live a satisfying life regardless of what or how long your struggle. I use a combination of techniques depending on issues presented and we will work together on both short and long term goals.
(281) 336-0508 View (281) 336-0508
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Asma Rahim
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, S
Verified Verified
Stafford, TX 77477
Mrs. Rahim started RCCS in 2010. Her first experience in the field in 2007 was at the Veteran Hospital's Pain Clinic and In-patient Area. After Graduation, she spent some time in the Middle East and voluntarily served her time and knowledge with familial issues and women issues. She has experienced hospice and loss, & understands grief and suicide. Her years of experience is wide as she has worked with clients and their families about depression, anxiety, addiction, multi-cultural, multi-racial family and marital issues. She works well with adults and adolescents dealing with self esteem and communication issues.
Mrs. Rahim started RCCS in 2010. Her first experience in the field in 2007 was at the Veteran Hospital's Pain Clinic and In-patient Area. After Graduation, she spent some time in the Middle East and voluntarily served her time and knowledge with familial issues and women issues. She has experienced hospice and loss, & understands grief and suicide. Her years of experience is wide as she has worked with clients and their families about depression, anxiety, addiction, multi-cultural, multi-racial family and marital issues. She works well with adults and adolescents dealing with self esteem and communication issues.
(832) 308-8146 View (832) 308-8146
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Crystal Clay
Drug & Alcohol Counselor, MS, LCDC, SAP, CART
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Stafford, TX 77477
Are you angry? Is your anger destroying your life? Do something about it! Stop being mad NOW! I help my clients learn to identify triggers and I'll work with you to develop a plan that helps you effectively manage your emotions and control your anger. As a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, I work with my clients to develop a plan that fosters continued recovery by utilizing effective coping skills, and creating a lifestyle that promotes sobriety and recovery while emphasizing personal development.
Are you angry? Is your anger destroying your life? Do something about it! Stop being mad NOW! I help my clients learn to identify triggers and I'll work with you to develop a plan that helps you effectively manage your emotions and control your anger. As a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, I work with my clients to develop a plan that fosters continued recovery by utilizing effective coping skills, and creating a lifestyle that promotes sobriety and recovery while emphasizing personal development.
(832) 742-1678 View (832) 742-1678
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Ordered Steps To Recovery, LLC.
Drug & Alcohol Counselor, LCDC, ADC, ICADC, CART, CHW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Stafford, TX 77477
Ordered Steps To Recovery is an Educational and Counseling Program designed to help clients recognize and recover from addiction through assessment, counseling and aftercare. Treatment services are available to adults on an outpatient basis that enables them to maintain normal activities, such as work and school, during the treatment process. Our counseling is conducted in a supportive virtual environment and all clients receive direction on ways to achieve a positive, drug and alcohol-free lifestyle.
Ordered Steps To Recovery is an Educational and Counseling Program designed to help clients recognize and recover from addiction through assessment, counseling and aftercare. Treatment services are available to adults on an outpatient basis that enables them to maintain normal activities, such as work and school, during the treatment process. Our counseling is conducted in a supportive virtual environment and all clients receive direction on ways to achieve a positive, drug and alcohol-free lifestyle.
(713) 597-2123 View (713) 597-2123
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LTS Lamerle Therapy Solutions
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-S
Verified Verified
Stafford, TX 77477  (Online Only)
Not accepting new clients
La’ Merle serves children and adults and provides Individual and family counseling. She works with individuals in order to help them deal with issues involving mental and emotional health that could be related to past trauma, mental illness or substance abuse. She helps individuals to gain insight into their emotional make-up and find healing around past trauma. In family counseling she helps families to work through their issues facilitating dialogues and ensuring everyone’s needs are met.
La’ Merle serves children and adults and provides Individual and family counseling. She works with individuals in order to help them deal with issues involving mental and emotional health that could be related to past trauma, mental illness or substance abuse. She helps individuals to gain insight into their emotional make-up and find healing around past trauma. In family counseling she helps families to work through their issues facilitating dialogues and ensuring everyone’s needs are met.
(832) 342-9755 View (832) 342-9755

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Madonna M. Yancey
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LCDC, NCC, MAC, BCPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Missouri City, TX 77459  (Online Only)
You need support so that you can show up for your family and partner when you loved one’s need you the most.
The changes one faces in confronting the COVID-19 health crisis can be overwhelming generating anxiety, depression and fear. Our experienced team of licensed therapists provide rapid access to fee for service phone support/counseling in the comfort of your home by phone. One call is all it takes to access one of our seasoned clinician who have the skills/experience to connect with you by phone in a meaningful ways that can help arm you with coping strategies you need to help you face the emerging health crisis. If you are experiencing difficulty managing your mood as you respond to today's threat, we want to help.
You need support so that you can show up for your family and partner when you loved one’s need you the most.
The changes one faces in confronting the COVID-19 health crisis can be overwhelming generating anxiety, depression and fear. Our experienced team of licensed therapists provide rapid access to fee for service phone support/counseling in the comfort of your home by phone. One call is all it takes to access one of our seasoned clinician who have the skills/experience to connect with you by phone in a meaningful ways that can help arm you with coping strategies you need to help you face the emerging health crisis. If you are experiencing difficulty managing your mood as you respond to today's threat, we want to help.
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Abbie Cecil
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, NCC, CCTP
Verified Verified
7 Endorsed
Missouri City, TX 77459
As such, my therapeutic style is rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing(EMDR)/Internal Family Systems(IFS).
Do you have difficulty maintaining focus and a piece of mind? Are you someone who appears to have it all together, but still find yourself experiencing unpredictable emotions, bouts of anxiety and depression that have strained your relationships? Do you have an internal fear that you will be exposed as broken? Trauma serves as a filter, a lens through which a person views the world. Everything is shaded differently. It can have you feeling like “What’s wrong with me?” and “I’ll never feel at home with myself” or “Why does life have to be this hard?”. So now you’re ready to make a change. You’re ready to feel relief.
As such, my therapeutic style is rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing(EMDR)/Internal Family Systems(IFS).
Do you have difficulty maintaining focus and a piece of mind? Are you someone who appears to have it all together, but still find yourself experiencing unpredictable emotions, bouts of anxiety and depression that have strained your relationships? Do you have an internal fear that you will be exposed as broken? Trauma serves as a filter, a lens through which a person views the world. Everything is shaded differently. It can have you feeling like “What’s wrong with me?” and “I’ll never feel at home with myself” or “Why does life have to be this hard?”. So now you’re ready to make a change. You’re ready to feel relief.
(832) 345-3105 View (832) 345-3105
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Shalonvia R Gundy
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Houston, TX 77077  (Online Only)
I specialize in Family Conflict, Couples, Pre-Marital and Marital, Anxiety, Depression, Teen and Adolescences, Self-Esteem/Self-Image, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Healthy Interpersonal Relationships.
No one is an island unto themselves, nor should anyone feel as if they must work their way through life alone. My focus has been on empowering clients and their loved ones to navigate the rough terrains of their life journeys. My mission is to help families and individuals to have lasting, healthy marriages and families and the interpersonal relationships that they seek, while helping the community to prosper through the solidification of the individuals within it. Clients that know that they want all that life has to offer but need more support to grasp it are encouraged to reach out for support here through therapy.
I specialize in Family Conflict, Couples, Pre-Marital and Marital, Anxiety, Depression, Teen and Adolescences, Self-Esteem/Self-Image, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Healthy Interpersonal Relationships.
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Harold Haven Boggs
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT, LCDC, EMDR
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Sugar Land, TX 77478  (Online Only)
Texas: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC).
I help adults with: (divorce, remarriage, PTSD, alcohol, drugs, depression, anxiety, grief, suicide prevention, compulsive sex, job loss; physical illness and disability; eldering); male teens: (problems with self-confidence, sexuality and identity; relationship with parents; alcohol drug problems, depression, grief); with : parents' divorce, or remarriage); families with : (Covenant Marriage, pre-marriage, remarriage, blended families, conflict and violence, abuse, divorce, empty nest), parents : (parent-child conflicts, problems with co-parenting, single-parenting and/or blending families, difficulties with CPS cases, and in-laws
Texas: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC).
I help adults with: (divorce, remarriage, PTSD, alcohol, drugs, depression, anxiety, grief, suicide prevention, compulsive sex, job loss; physical illness and disability; eldering); male teens: (problems with self-confidence, sexuality and identity; relationship with parents; alcohol drug problems, depression, grief); with : parents' divorce, or remarriage); families with : (Covenant Marriage, pre-marriage, remarriage, blended families, conflict and violence, abuse, divorce, empty nest), parents : (parent-child conflicts, problems with co-parenting, single-parenting and/or blending families, difficulties with CPS cases, and in-laws
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Adrienne Parker
Licensed Professional Counselor, LMHC
Verified Verified
Sugar Land, TX 77498  (Online Only)
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Pathway to Empathy
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, NCC
Verified Verified
Sugar Land, TX 77479  (Online Only)
You may have a goal of living a meaningful life in all its richness and seeking help with interpersonal or mental health symptom related concerns? Depression, anxiety, history of trauma? Are you, your family or relations journeying through life transitions or in need of support related to medical-health concerns? There are times in life when it feels like you are barely keeping your head above water. Not a fun feeling! More importantly, I work with compassion, empathy, and am non-judgmental, while creating a safe space for you to explore and understand.
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Barbara J. Washington
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, CART
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Sugar Land, TX 77479  (Online Only)
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Holistic Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA
Verified Verified
Houston, TX 77074  (Online Only)
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Spoon Therapy Group
Pre-Licensed Professional
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
West University Place, TX 77005
You can have a loving and healthy relationship with yourself, your family, and those close to you.
Have you ever gone to a different country and not understood their native language? How difficult was it for you to get what you needed? Imagine you are a child, wanting to tell you what they are going through but cannot tell you in words. Play therapy is a language a child utilizes to express what cannot be vocalized. I am Whitney, trained to interpret this language to help you get the ease you need as a parent. You are a good parent, you are here; looking to do all you can for her child. Give me a call!
You can have a loving and healthy relationship with yourself, your family, and those close to you.
Have you ever gone to a different country and not understood their native language? How difficult was it for you to get what you needed? Imagine you are a child, wanting to tell you what they are going through but cannot tell you in words. Play therapy is a language a child utilizes to express what cannot be vocalized. I am Whitney, trained to interpret this language to help you get the ease you need as a parent. You are a good parent, you are here; looking to do all you can for her child. Give me a call!
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Joy Couseling Services, LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, LPC
Verified Verified
Houston, TX 77042  (Online Only)
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Ayesha Lakhani
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC, CART
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Bellaire, TX 77401
Drawing on a desire to help people overcome obstacles in their personal relationships, my professional work involves counseling individuals and families in order to achieve conflict resolution and better communication. As a neutral third party, I am better able to identify the challenges my patients face and facilitate positive change. Working with families, it is essential to foster a high level of trust between the therapist and family members. Mutual respect and open communication are essential to the therapeutic process. Engaging patients at their level, I help people find the change that they desire and the strength within themselves to achieve that change.
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(281) 724-4296 View (281) 724-4296
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Angelina H Rodriguez
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC-ATS, ATR-BC
Verified Verified
Bellaire, TX 77401
Marriage Therapy, Individual Therapy, Couple Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Art Therapy.
Has your life not been going the way you planned? Perhaps the Covid-19 pandemic created new problems or dragged up unresolved issues. You may have spent countless hours on social media searching for relief for your loneliness, sadness, anger, shame and anxiety only to realize how easy it is to be influenced by false profiles, false information and alternative versions of reality. Even if you are not alone, perhaps you are feeling isolated because you are struggling in your marriage or other relationships and are wishing that you had better communication, emotional connection and intimacy. There is a way out of your pain and sufferin
Marriage Therapy, Individual Therapy, Couple Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Art Therapy.
Has your life not been going the way you planned? Perhaps the Covid-19 pandemic created new problems or dragged up unresolved issues. You may have spent countless hours on social media searching for relief for your loneliness, sadness, anger, shame and anxiety only to realize how easy it is to be influenced by false profiles, false information and alternative versions of reality. Even if you are not alone, perhaps you are feeling isolated because you are struggling in your marriage or other relationships and are wishing that you had better communication, emotional connection and intimacy. There is a way out of your pain and sufferin
(713) 338-9047 View (713) 338-9047
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Lori Fiester
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LSCW-S, CIS, ADS, CDWF, CFSW
Verified Verified
Houston, TX 77057
I have a private practice in which I focus on trauma, grief, family of origin, interpersonal relationships, and codependency issues.
Therapy can be daunting, and the process can be slow and tough. It also brings opportunity. Opportunity can bring hope, new coping skills, a different perspective, healing, and so much more. The hardest part - but often the most exciting part - can be deciding where to begin. I value and honor the starts, stops, and all that is in between. I have been in the clinical mental health field since 1986, so one could say I've been around the block. With that experience, I help my clients find their paths, and I serve as a witness to their growth.
I have a private practice in which I focus on trauma, grief, family of origin, interpersonal relationships, and codependency issues.
Therapy can be daunting, and the process can be slow and tough. It also brings opportunity. Opportunity can bring hope, new coping skills, a different perspective, healing, and so much more. The hardest part - but often the most exciting part - can be deciding where to begin. I value and honor the starts, stops, and all that is in between. I have been in the clinical mental health field since 1986, so one could say I've been around the block. With that experience, I help my clients find their paths, and I serve as a witness to their growth.
(281) 357-9092 View (281) 357-9092
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Kagey Family Counseling
Drug & Alcohol Counselor, LCDC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Houston, TX 77077
If you, a friend or family member is struggling with substance abuse, addiction, trauma, codependency or disruptive family dynamics, I can help. You don't have to continue being consumed by feelings of shame, guilt, betrayal, anger, tension or isolation. I know personally and professionally the power of addiction and the distressing effects this disease has on families. With more than 30 years as a certified addiction counselor (ADC) and 30+ years as a sober alcoholic in recovery, I understand your struggles and have the empathy and experience to help you find hope and healing.
If you, a friend or family member is struggling with substance abuse, addiction, trauma, codependency or disruptive family dynamics, I can help. You don't have to continue being consumed by feelings of shame, guilt, betrayal, anger, tension or isolation. I know personally and professionally the power of addiction and the distressing effects this disease has on families. With more than 30 years as a certified addiction counselor (ADC) and 30+ years as a sober alcoholic in recovery, I understand your struggles and have the empathy and experience to help you find hope and healing.
(713) 597-4035 View (713) 597-4035
Family Therapy

What do family therapists do?

A family therapist facilitates the process of understanding and improving how a family functions. The therapist will help family members develop empathy for one another. They’ll seek to understand existing patterns, misunderstandings, and conflicts that arise, in order to help the family arrive at a realistic, unified understanding and develop the coping skills they need to build stronger relationships.

How long does therapy for families take to work?

Therapy manifests differently in every family; a common time frame is 12 weekly sessions, but some families may see improvement after just a few weeks. Families should discuss their goals with the therapist at the beginning of the process and periodically revisit those goals to assess their progress together.

How can you encourage a family member to attend family therapy?

You can encourage family members to attend therapy by expressing with both love and concern the challenges you see and explaining how a therapist could help the family navigate those challenges together. An outside perspective can help everyone feel heard, get on the same page, and develop new skills. If family members are still hesitant, it may be helpful to emphasize that family therapy is short-term—it won’t last forever.

Is therapy for families effective?

Family therapy can significantly improve family dynamics and relationships. Research suggests that family therapy can help individuals understand their role in the family, communicate and solve problems together, reduce conflict and draw boundaries when necessary, and develop coping skills for stressors, major life changes, and mental or physical illnesses within the family.