Therapy for Parents & Caregivers in Houston, TX
Parenting Can Be Hard
Whatever the age of your children, parenting is not easy. As a parent, it’s normal to feel full of love and excitement, as well as overwhelmed, stressed, frustrated, worried, and sad - maybe all in the same day.
If your child has come out as LGBTQIA+, you might also be struggling to understand or accept this part of their identity. You can love and support your child and still feel unsure, confused, or concerned. Or if you identify as LGBTQIA+, you might be figuring out how to share this wonderful part of yourself with your kids and support them as they understand this part of you.
You Deserve Support
Through counseling sessions, I’ll help you get the tools you need to feel less stressed and overwhelmed, more confident as a parent, and improve communication and understanding between you and your children. I have many years of experience working with parents and caregivers just like you - who love their children and want the best for them.
Ways I Can Help
Here are some of the ways I can support you:
Improving communication, increasing understanding, and strengthening your relationship with your child
Learning ways to help your teen or young adult prepare for adulthood, including navigating adolescence, mental health and well-being, understanding emotions and behavior, developing positive friendships, healthy dating relationships, managing life’s responsibilities, and neurodivergence such as ADHD, autism, and OCD.
Supporting your child’s LGBTQIA+, transgender, or gender-expansive identity, including helping them navigate coming out/letting people in, and/or moving from gender dysphoria to gender euphoria
Providing a judgment-free space to discuss, explore, and better understand any thoughts, feelings, and reactions to your child’s LGBTQIA+, transgender, or gender-expansive identity
Opportunity to ask questions and learn about the LGBTQIA+ community in a safe, judgment-free space
Finding ways to communicate your LGBTQIA+, transgender, or gender-expansive identity with your kids and support them as they understand this part of you
Helping you support and advocate for your child at school (LGBTQIA+, gender identity, ADHD, autism, OCD, struggling with academics, behavior, or peer relationships)
Navigating life transitions including divorce or separation, blending families, moving, or having a new understanding of family identity
Get Started with Therapy in Houston
Parenting can be challenging. With counseling, I'll help you get the tools you need to feel better, less overwhelmed, and more confident as a parent. Click here to schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation to get started with counseling in Houston, TX. We'll spend 15 minutes on the phone, and I'll let you know how I can help, or I'll do my best to connect you with someone who can. Let's get started today.
Your Questions About Therapy for Parents & Caregivers, Answered
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Yes. Full stop.
Supporting your child doesn’t require you to disappear. And taking time for yourself isn’t something you have to justify or earn by first proving you've done enough for everyone else. You are allowed to take care of yourself too.
For a lot of the parents and caregivers I work with, getting real support for themselves ends up being one of the most important things they do for the people they love.
When you pour into yourself, something shifts. You start to understand yourself in ways that create more room inside, more presence, more patience, more capacity to be the person you want to be. You show up with a clearer sense of who you are. That steadiness ripples outward. The people in your life feel it, especially the ones watching you most closely.
Taking care of yourself is a gift, to you and to your family. And it's one all of you deserve.
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A lot of parents and caregivers who work with me say the biggest shift isn't a strategy or a technique. It's finally feeling like they make sense to themselves, maybe for the first time. Like they can exhale. Like they're allowed to take up space, not just as a caregiver, but as a whole person.
Sessions are collaborative, low-pressure, and built around how your brain actually works, not someone else's idea of how it should. You'll never be handed a generic parenting checklist and told to try harder. You'll never have to explain yourself from scratch or leave parts of who you are at the door.
And somewhere along the way, a lot of people stop seeing themselves as the problem and start feeling genuinely curious about who they are and what they're capable of, inside and outside of their role as a parent.
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No part of who you are needs to wait outside.
Who you are, where you come from, the communities you were born into and the ones you chose along the way: your cultural background, your ethnicity, your immigration story, your religion or your complicated relationship with religion, your sexuality, your gender identity, whether you're queer, trans, nonbinary, or anywhere on that spectrum, your neurodivergence, your disability, the languages you move between, your body and how you live in it.
None of that is separate from you, and therefore none of it is separate from our work together. Your many identities shape how you move through the world and how you move through your role at home, and they will be woven into our sessions the same way.
I won't assume or pretend to know your specific experience before you share it. What I will bring is genuine curiosity, real familiarity with a wide range of communities, cultures, and contexts, and enough grounding in your world that you won't have to spend your energy explaining why a part of who you are matters, or why navigating the world and caregiving with your particular set of identities can sometimes ask more of you than it should.
You can show up as your full self, and we can get to work.
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Absolutely not, and you are in very good company. A lot of people arrive at this understanding later in life, sometimes after years of working incredibly hard to keep up and quietly wondering why everything felt so much harder than it looked.
However you got here, whether ADHD is a new idea or something you've been sitting with for a while, what matters is that you’re here now. Whether you’re in your 50s, 60s, 70s, or later, people who come to this work at this stage of life often bring a tremendous amount of self-knowledge with them. That’s a real asset.
Your age is not a ceiling on what is possible for you. It is never too late to understand yourself better and start feeling like life does not have to be this hard.
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Yes! This comes up a lot. You start researching your kid and suddenly you are reading a list of symptoms thinking wait, this is also... me?! That moment of recognition is real and it matters. We can absolutely explore that together.
You do not have to have it all figured out before reaching out. Showing up with "I think something is going on and I am not sure what" is a completely valid place to start
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Yes, completely! And not only is it okay, it’s kind of expected. You don’t have to show up as a perfect therapy client. Sessions are not designed to look like a lecture you have to sit through. If your brain wanders, we work with that. If you need to move around, go for it. If you lose your train of thought mid-sentence, no big deal, we will find it. The way your brain works is not a problem to manage in here. It's just a part of you, and a pretty great one.
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That uncertainty makes a lot of sense, especially if you've spent years focused on your kids, your family, and everyone else's needs, and quietly wondering whether you're even allowed to take up this kind of space for yourself. A lot of caregivers feel that way. The free consultation is a no-pressure way to ask questions, get a feel for whether this might work for you, and decide from there. You’re not committing to anything by reaching out.
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A lot of parents and caregivers feel this way when they first reach out. And most of them also have a quiet voice underneath saying, "but I really need this." Both of those things can be true at the same time.
Sessions are 55 minutes and held via telehealth, which means there's no commute, no waiting room, and no having to explain to anyone where you're going. All you’ll need is a private, reasonably quiet space where you can log on and be present for yourself. That might be your bedroom with the door closed, a parked car in the driveway after drop-off, or anywhere you can carve out an hour that belongs to you. It does not have to look perfect.
Carving out that time is not a luxury or something you earn once everything else is handled. For a lot of parents and caregivers, it's what makes the rest of life more manageable.
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Your free consultation is a 15-minute phone call, and it's pretty low-key. You'll share a little about what's going on and why you're reaching out, I'll share a little about my approach and what it's like to work with me, and you'll have a chance to ask any questions you have.
From there we'll both get a sense of whether this feels like a good fit. If it does, we'll get a first session scheduled. If you'd like more time to think about it, that's completely fine.
And if it turns out someone else would be a better fit for what you're navigating, I'll say so and help point you somewhere useful. No pressure, no commitment either way.
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Sessions are $200 for 55 minutes, though we almost always use the full hour.
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I'm an out-of-network provider, which means I don't bill insurance directly. If you have out-of-network mental health benefits, your plan may reimburse you for part of the session fee.
I can provide a superbill, which is an enhanced receipt with the clinical codes your insurance needs to process a reimbursement. You'd submit it to your insurance directly and they would reimburse you based on your plan’s benefits.
Each insurance provider and plan is different and the fastest way to find out your specific benefits is by reaching out to your insurance provider’s member services number. You can usually find this on the back of your insurance card.