Psychotherapy and Counseling

Integrative Mental Health

We are here to support you in your healing journey. If you are looking for therapy in Houston then you have come to the right place. We want to help you learn how to create a safe and nurturing psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual experience for yourself. Any of your feelings are valid, but often we all need sorting through them. We are determined to find the right counselor to help you through whatever struggle you are facing.

Mental Health Therapy Houston TX

Here at our beautiful center with offerings for counseling and psychotherapy, you can choose to see a psychotherapist, a Jungian analyst, a social worker, a marriage and family therapist, or a licensed professional counselor. Our office is conveniently located in central Houston, Texas, and our mental health professionals are highly trained in every issue you may be struggling with.

We treat adults, children, and teenagers, as well as couples, families, and groups. Whether you are struggling with an upheaval in your life, a mental health disturbance, feeling stuck and lacking meaning in life, or just everyday ups and downs, we are eager to help.

Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy in Houston Texas

We understand that one-on-one talk therapy isn’t for everyone, so we offer a wide variety of therapeutic support. Maybe group therapy will be right for you, so that you have peers alongside you on your journey. Just as a family serves as a lifelong support system, group therapy is a microcosm of interconnected lives, each enriching and empowered by the other. Group Therapy is not merely a supplement to individual therapy; it's an expansive healing environment where emotional, psychological, and relational growth flourishes.

Other clients prefer art or yoga therapy, involving their body and minds in their treatment.

No struggle is too big or too small; we welcome you no matter what stage of life you are in.

Counseling and Psychotherapy in Houston TX

Our staff includes a variety of highly trained counselors and analysts with many different approaches so that you can find the best fit.

We offer trauma-informed care, Jungian analysis, family therapy, child play-based therapy, EMDR, grief counseling, support for religious and spiritual wounding, relational-based therapy, substance abuse disorder treatment, couples therapy, and therapy for struggles related to sexual orientation. We connect with you and teach you how to suffer and how to transcend and transform your suffering. However, if you don’t see your concern listed below, we”ve got you covered.

We are here to hold space for you to heal and empower you to become the person you have always wanted to be. Continue reading to learn more about what we treat at our center for counseling and psychotherapy.

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Counseling and Psychotherapy in Houston TX

Types of Psychotherapy & Counseling Offered in Houston

What is Jungian Analysis?

Jungian Analysis is an approach to personal growth developed by Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung. This approach stresses bringing parts of ourselves, for example conscious and unconscious, rational and instinctual, mind and heart, into a healthier relationship. As in any relationship, these parts of ourselves can collaborate creatively, or destructively fight for control. As Jung put it, “Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

Jungian Analysis is a long-term, depth-oriented process of cultivating curiosity rather than judgment toward the unknown parts of ourselves in order to better understand who we are, our motivations and relationships. This can involve exploring creative outlets, dreams, fantasies, and other symbolic material.

 

Jungian Analysis seeks to understand the origins, messages and deeper meanings of our inner and outer conflicts. Just as when we grow, our clothes may become constricting. The same can be true of our attitudes and self-definitions as we pass from one stage of life to another. The Jungian Analyst and client work together to explore and interpret where the client’s experiences no longer fit with the goal of living more authentically.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. ACT helps us approach distress in a different way, turning towards the struggle and finding our strength.

Steven C. Hayes, a psychology professor at the University of Nevada, developed ACT in 1986. Some important points to consider:

  • Psychological pain is normal, it is important, and everyone has it.
  • You cannot deliberately get rid of your psychological pain, although you can take steps to avoid increasing it artificially.
  • Pain and suffering are two different states of being.
  • You don’t have to identify with your suffering.
  • Accepting your pain is a step toward ridding yourself of your suffering.
  • You can live a life you value, beginning right now, but you will have to learn how to get out of your head and into your life.

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Our thought patterns and subsequent behaviors greatly influence the way we experience life, especially when coping with depression or anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of treatment that examines the way thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. Clinicians can help you identify different patterns in your thoughts and behaviors that feel harmful to you and change your relationship to the way you approach your mental and physical environment. When you can reframe your thoughts and behaviors, you are in a better place to make the changes you want to see.

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Family Therapy is about building a Lifelong Support System. One predictor of success when navigating any suffering that we encounter through our lives is a system of support. The family can serve this purpose and it possesses power beyond what any individual would imagine while they are in the throws of distress or crisis. Working with our team can bring you much needed relief. Let us help you work together to solve problems, avoid blame, and minimize stress. Family therapy can increase your family’s flexibility, while establishing boundaries and routines that promote mutual respect and accountability.

All members of the family can be part of the solution. Family work can offer the laser focused attention to be taken off the “offending” member of the group. Through time the energy shifts from that of blame, fear and contempt to solution orientation, thus lifting the veil of shame, and making space for new perspective.

Family Therapy is a wonderful treatment for families who are experiencing recurring difficulties in relationships;

  • between parents and children
  • between siblings
  • blended families after a divorce and remarriage

After therapy, your family will have a deeper understanding for the roles they play in the larger family dynamic, and a better understanding how and why each family member chooses to act in the way they do.

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Our relation to life has become ambiguous. Jungian Analyst Edward Edinger stated, “We have lost our bearing. Our relation to life has become ambiguous. The result is a pervasive feeling of meaninglessness and alienation from life. Whether or not a new collective religious symbol will emerge will remain to be seen. For present those aware of the problem are obliged to make their own individual search for a meaningful life. Individuation becomes their way of life” (p. 107, Ego and Archetype).

At a dark point in the life of Carl Jung, he questioned the meaning of his life and began asking the question, “What is my myth?” This started an endless pursuit of empirical truth and investigation of the psyche.

Honor the Journey and Discover Your Truth

Each of us is walking our own Hero’s Journey – and we all are, indeed, the hero, heroine, or star in our own personal story. The path of individuation is one of honoring your journey and discovering your truth as you become the unique you that you were created to become. This is one of the primary tasks of psychotherapy and analysis. To create the context for an individual to own what it is of themselves that is truly theirs so that the imposing voices of others can subside.

Trust-Based Relational Intervention – A Framework for Connecting to the Emotionally Injured.

Dr. Karyn Purvis and David Cross founded The Institute for Child Development and are responsible for developing Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), which is a framework for connecting with little ones and families who have been injured by experiences such as trauma, abuse or neglect.

See the “Real Child” Behind the Behavior

Through this work, we have seen many firsts. The first time that a family has seen a child not tantrum when triggered. The first time that a child has tears instead of anger. The first time a child reaches out in love, as opposed to pushing others away.

TBRI helps us develop skills needed to stay present with the child when their behavior tends to result in us wanting to walk away. It is the work of “seeing the real child” behind the behavior, thus facilitating a deep bond of connection needed for them, and our relationship with them, to heal.

Yoga therapy is a type of integrative medicine that couples yoga practices with psychodynamic movement to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

This trauma-informed asana practice is designed to connect the three bodies in which you experience being alive: your physical body, emotional body, and thinking body.

It involves the use of various yoga techniques, such as postures, breathing exercises, meditation, and relaxation, to help manage a variety of health conditions. It is an opportunity to involve your WHOLE being into the process of living fully, living freely, and letting go.

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Processing groups are a powerful tool for growth and change. 5-10 clients meet face-to-face to share their experiences with our highly trained therapists, providing a unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback in safe and confidential environment. Deepen your self-awareness and learn more on how you relate with people – in support of others, we support ourselves.

In process groups, sessions are typically unstructured but may be focused on a particular theme. Members are welcome to bring any issues to the group they feel are important. Everyone is encouraged to give support and feedback to others, and to observe their own reactions and responses that other members’ contributions bring up.

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Connect with Kids Through Art and Engagement.

Art therapy can be an effective tool in the mental health treatment of children. It is also a lot of fun and builds connections as children reveal themselves through their art. Art is an expressive medium that helps our young clients communicate, overcome stress, and explore different aspects of their own personalities. Children often do not yet have the language needed to articulate what they feel so art is a beautiful way to help them share what they are feeling on the inside. The Center for Healing Arts and Sciences provides art therapy and child counseling in a safe, open and healing environment by licensed therapists who care.

What Is It?

Art therapy integrates psychotherapeutic techniques with the creative process to improve mental health and well-being. Children and teens do not need to have artistic ability or any special talents to participate in art therapy, and people of all ages, even adults can benefit from this therapeutic technique.

The Connection Kids Really Need

While it may look like your child is “just playing,” we assure you there is much more going on. Often, after a child has worked with one of our professionals, a kiddo who had never sought healthy touch from their caregiver, begins to ask for a hug. Kids whose engine never seems to stop running, begin to slow down as they learn to take deep, full breaths. Kids who have refused to make eye contact, seek the gaze of a trusted other. Kids who were once terrified of trying new things, begin to come out of their shell.

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Not only is there not a need for the perfect parent, it would be detrimental to the mental-emotional well-being of our children (not to mention ourselves) if we were flawless – or even portrayed an image of flawlessness to our children.

It’s okay that you do not have all the answers and don’t always make the “right” parenting choices. We are here to help both you and your children discover what goes on in a rough patch and collaborate with you to move through it together.

Child Therapy can be very beneficial when your child is experiencing challenges such as behavior problems, emotional difficulties, ADHD, impulsivity, and other developmental issues. Our experienced staff of child therapists can handle any of these situations with sensitivity and competence in a safe, open, and healing environment.

We use play therapy for younger children and other age-appropriate modalities for adolescents to help them express what’s really going on in their hearts and minds. Important to note, we have experience working with adoption-based concerns, as well as with “kids who come from hard places.” These are children who have endured abuse, trauma or neglect at an early age.

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Or See Trust-Based Relational Interventions

Are you and your partner constantly arguing over the little stuff with no resolution in sight? Is communication difficult? Walking on eggshells? Was there a break in the fiber of trust within the relationship? Do you find yourself wondering what happened between now and when you used to be great friends?

There is hope. There are answers for you if you have the willingness to show up honestly for yourself and with your partner. There are ways to overcome these problems within the relationship with help. We will, without judgement, walk with you and your partner as you seek to move through relationship struggles, as you deepen the bonds of your partnership, or even as you consciously move through separation if that decision has already been made.

The conflict in our relationships is usually the discomfort of an emergent, developing consciousness. The pain is usually the protest of the older consciousness as it’s reign is being challenged. This obstacle is the opportunity for you to part ways with the agenda of the existing consciousness and open to a new one, which will likely be in service to your greater path together. Emerge from the discomfort and discover that there is meaning in your suffering.

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Blessed are Those Who Mourn, for They Shall be Comforted

While loss is a part of our lives, this does little to reduce the suffering of grieving that loss. No one can bring back what is gone, although we can discover a road on which to travel, to heal, and to grow from our loss.

Grief counseling will help you cope with the sense of devastation that follows the loss of a loved one as well as issues that trigger feelings of grief, like stress. We provide a space for you to work through and process these complex emotions surrounding your loss. Healthy grieving results with you remembering your loved one with a newfound sense of peace and resolution.

We Can’t Bring Them Back But We Can Help You Heal and Grow

One of the great tasks of mourning is to find a way to assimilate the content of what was being carried by our lost loved one. Tribes believed that the souls of the departed joined the stars and watched us. Religious traditions give us examples of “knowing” that your lost friend was there with you all along. Gone from the modern world are many of the rituals which would give us more of a context for the grieving process.

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Through our journey of development (which by its very nature included emotional, mental, spiritual, and-or physical wounding), we have all sustained injuries as a result of the fact that no one could have possibly met all of our needs at the precise moment we needed them met.

As we find ourselves adults seeking to repair our own wounds and reattach in relationships from which we feel disconnected, trust is required for mending. Such a large part of therapy is developing a weekly ritual for the purpose of reconnecting with a safe, accepting, trustworthy “other.” Within this ritual a container is established to invite you to reconnect with your Self, and to begin to see yourself as the wonderful person you were created to be. The Center for Healing Arts and Sciences provides Attachment work therapy in individual as well as couples & family counseling.

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