THERAPY FOR INDIVIDUALS IN TEXAS
You're Managing.
You're managing well, but something underneath still feels off. Maybe you're barely surviving, and have been for longer than you'd like to admit to most people.
Individual counseling is where you stop just getting by on your own and start understanding what you're actually working with.
You don't need a reason that sounds serious enough.
People come to individual counseling with things they've been told are too small to bring, and things they've never said out loud to anyone. Both belong here.
Some of what we work on:
Anxiety or low mood that stopped feeling temporary a while ago.
Something happened to you, and you've never really dealt with it.
Something changed, a job or a relationship or a loss or a milestone, and you haven't caught up to it.
DON'T WAIT FOR IT GET WORSEYou're good at being what people need and less clear on what you need.
The same conflict keeps happening with different people.
You feel a lot, or you feel almost nothing, and neither one seems right.
You don't have to know which of these it is. Sorting that out is part of the work, not something to finish before you start.
Needing more support doesn't mean something is wrong with you.
Some of what people bring to therapy has a name. Depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD. These are real, they respond to treatment, and having one doesn't make you broken. It makes you a person carrying something that has a name and decades of research behind it.
I don't prescribe medication, and I won't tell you whether you should take it. What I will do is give you my honest read. If I think an evaluation would help, or that you'd be better served by working with a psychiatrist alongside me, or by an additional support beyond what I offer, I'll say so plainly and help you find it. A lot of my clients see me and a prescriber at the same time. That combination works.
Wanting help with balance, or with managing something that has been hard to manage, is not a lesser reason to be here. For many people it's the whole reason.
You can work on your relationship by yourself.
Many people who see me individually are in a relationship, and that relationship is part of why they're here. Sometimes their partner isn't ready. Sometimes they want to better understand themselves before bringing anyone else into the room. Sometimes it's simply theirs to work on.
That's a legitimate way to do this. How you show up in a relationship, what you expect, what you avoid, what sets you off, what you can't bring yourself to ask for, all of that is yours. It can change without your partner in the chair.
If it turns out couples work would help, we can talk about it. But you aren't doing this the wrong way by starting alone.
I'm interested in what your life means to you, not just how it's going.
HOW I WORKMy doctoral training is in existential counseling. That sounds academic, and mostly it means this: alongside the problem you came in with, I'm paying attention to the bigger questions underneath it. What you actually want. What you've been carrying that was never yours. What it would cost to change, and what it's costing not to.
We'll also work on the practical thing. If it's anxiety, we'll work on the anxiety. I use cognitive behavioral tools where they help, and I build plans with goals concrete enough that you can tell whether they're working.
I'm direct. I'll tell you what I notice, including the parts you might be circling around.
The work usually shows up in ordinary places.
Not in a single breakthrough. In smaller things:
You notice the reaction before it takes you over
Days stop feeling like something to survive
You say the thing instead of rehearsing it for three days
You stop auditioning in relationships that already chose you
You can be disappointed in yourself without it becoming a verdict
You make a decision and it stays made
The point is to be understood, not evaluated.
I work with adults across Dallas-Fort Worth in person, and virtually throughout Texas. I'm LGBTQ+ affirming, and that isn't a line on a website. It's been part of my clinical training, my group work, and my advocacy for years. Your first session shouldn't be spent teaching your therapist about your own life.
Whoever you are and whatever you're bringing: the point is to be understood, not evaluated.
NO PRESSURE. JUST A CONVERSATION.
You don't have to know what to say yet.
Most people don't, on the first day. You only have to be willing to look at it with someone.