Finding the right therapist can feel like one more item on an already overwhelming list. Gate Healing simplifies the process: one experienced therapist, a range of specialties, and flexible virtual sessions available across Texas.
I work with adults, couples, teens, and families who are ready to do the work. My approach is direct, evidence-based, and grounded in over 25 years of clinical experience. If you’re not sure where to start, that’s normal. Most people aren’t, and we’ll figure it out together in the first conversation.
My clinical work is built on Solution-Focused Therapy, developed through direct training and live clinical supervision under Solution-Focused co-founder Insoo Kim Berg, common factors and therapeutic alliance researcher Scott Miller, PhD, and client-directed therapy leader Barry Duncan, PsyD.
How to Choose Where to Start
If a relationship is the source of the pain, start with couples counseling or family counseling. If something inside you feels stuck (anxiety, depression, stress, a life transition), individual counseling is usually the way in. If you’re a parent of a struggling adolescent, teen counseling works directly with the teen with parent involvement as needed; of course, parent-counseling is often a great place to start so that we can discuss your parenting strategies and tweak them as needed. The first session is always a conversation, not a commitment, and we’ll use it to make sure I’m the right fit for what you need. Learn more about what to expect from the first session.
Individual Counseling
Whether it’s anxiety, depression, a life transition, or just a sense that something isn’t working, individual counseling gives you space to figure it out. Sessions are direct, collaborative, and focused on what actually matters to you. Learn more about individual counseling.
Couples Counseling
Good relationships take work, and that work gets harder when communication breaks down. As a Gottman Level II trained therapist, I help couples break destructive patterns, rebuild trust, and develop the skills that make conflict productive instead of painful. If parenting tensions are part of what you’re navigating, see also family counseling. Learn more about couples counseling.
Family Counseling & Parenting
Family conflict doesn’t mean your family is broken. Counseling helps parents, teens, and adult children improve communication, establish boundaries, and navigate the challenges of blended families, co-parenting, and generational tension. Learn more about family counseling.
Teen Counseling
Adolescence is complicated even when everything is going well. When it’s not, when anxiety, social pressure, identity questions, or family conflict are making things harder, a therapist who understands the teenage brain can help. Teen counseling often pairs well with parent coaching or family sessions. Learn more about teen counseling.
Anxiety Counseling
If anxiety is running the show, keeping you awake, making decisions feel impossible, or shrinking your world, therapy can help you retrain the way your brain responds to uncertainty and threat. Anxiety often shows up alongside depression or chronic stress, and we’ll address those connections when relevant. Learn more about anxiety counseling.
Depression Counseling
Depression doesn’t always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like irritability, exhaustion, withdrawal, numbness, or just going through the motions. Therapy helps you understand what’s driving it and build a path out. Depression and anxiety frequently coexist; treatment can address both. Learn more about depression counseling.
Grief Counseling
Loss doesn’t follow a schedule or a set of linear stages; it bounces around and can show up at inconvenient times. Grief counseling provides a space to process what you’re going through without pressure to “move on” before you’re ready. Learn more about grief counseling.
Crisis Counseling & PTSD
Trauma reshapes how you experience the world. Crisis and PTSD counseling helps you process difficult experiences, rebuild safety, and move forward without being controlled by what happened. Trauma often surfaces as anxiety or sleep disruption, and we’ll address those connections directly. Learn more about crisis and PTSD counseling.
Stress Management
I work with a lot of Texas professionals who are great at their jobs and who put everyone else first, sometimes at the expense of family relationships. Stress management counseling goes beyond coping strategies to address the patterns and beliefs that keep the stress cycle running. If chronic stress has tipped into work-life imbalance or burnout, we’ll address those too. Learn more about stress management.
Personal Development
Not everyone starts therapy in crisis. Personal development counseling is for people who want deeper self-awareness, clarity, and intentional living, including high achievers and professionals in transition. If you’ve handled the basics and want to go further, this is that deeper work. Learn more about personal development.
Work-Life Balance
If your identity, income, and sense of worth are all tangled up with productivity, “just work less” isn’t helpful advice. Work-life balance counseling addresses the beliefs and patterns behind the imbalance, not just the schedule. Learn more about work-life balance counseling.
Life Transitions
Career changes, divorce, retirement, relocation, empty nest, loss of identity: life transitions can unsettle even the most grounded people. Counseling helps you navigate change without losing yourself in the process. Learn more about life transitions counseling.
Therapy for High Achievers
Success and suffering aren’t mutually exclusive. If you’re performing at a high level but paying for it with your health, your relationships, or your sense of purpose, therapy can help you find a more sustainable way to operate. Learn more about therapy for high achievers.
Virtual Therapy Across Texas
All services are available via HIPAA-compliant video and telephone sessions to anyone in Texas. Whether you’re in Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, or a rural community, you can access experienced, licensed therapy from wherever you are. Learn more about online therapy in Texas.
Learn More
If you’re not ready to schedule and want to learn more first, these in-depth guides cover the topics that come up most often in my practice:
- Understanding Anxiety — how anxiety works in the brain and what actually helps
- Understanding Depression: Signs, Causes,
and What Actually Helps — recognizing the signs and the path forward - Understanding Grief: When Loss Changes Everything – how grief can show up in unexpected ways, and what to do to get through it
- Communication Killers in Relationships — the four patterns Gottman research identifies as most destructive
- Mindfulness and Meditation: A Practical Guide — what the research actually supports. How to find “your” style of mindfulness
- Stress and Relaxation — managing chronic stress before it becomes burnout
- How to Choose a Therapist in Texas — what to look for and what to ask
Ready to Take the Next Step?
Reach out today to schedule a consultation. We offer virtual and in-person sessions.
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