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Life can be challenging and, even with our best efforts, we can have difficulty sorting through our own challenges. Let us help. Sometimes, having an impartial listener can help. Whether you're anxious, depressed or trying to sort through relationship difficulties, our therapists are trained to give you our full attention and help you find the solutions that work for you.

We offer the options of in-person therapy, virtual counseling or telephone sessions to current and new clients. (Our virtual services are offered through HIPPA compliant and encrypted services. This option involves new clients filling out intake forms--links on first page of this site--and either faxing them to 817-275-3720 or emailing them to our office at centerstaff@hotmail.com. Arrangement of payment method needs to be made with our office and we are glad to file insurance claims when appropriate.)

Credit cards are also accepted. All our therapists are licensed in the state of Texas.

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RELATIVES YOU LOVE…BUT DON’T LIKE

Holidays don’t always bring out the best in families…no matter how hard you may try. This is the time of year when individuals often succumb to the “perfect family” goal. Furniture advertisements abound, as do flooring ads. At this time of year more than any other, we want our homes–and our families–to be perfect. The […]

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SOMETIMES DEFIANCE FEELS LIKE POWER

If you’ve ever been around a two year-old, you’ve seen defiance. At two and a half years, most children become excellent at saying “No!” From a developmental perspective, we know that kids this age are just learning to separate themselves as individuals. They protest and refuse almost everything and they usually do it loudly. These […]

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WORKING MY WAY OUT OF A JOB

After several weeks or months of therapy, some of clients just go away. And this is okay, although I do prefer them to cancel or just not reschedule. No shows are a waste of my time and are particularly frustrating when I have others waiting for open appointment times. Still, I get it. Knowing how to leave […]

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COMMANDING THE CONVERSATION

“I have 2 sons and a daughter. My oldest son is married 10 years with 3 kids. His oldest is a step-daughter, who’s 15. He also has 2 younger sons, ages 10 and 5.  When my daughter came to visit recently, I tried to spend as much time with her as I could. She invited my daughter-in-law to go shopping […]

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YOU HAVE POWER…EVEN IF YOU DON’T FEEL THAT WAY

“My father has admitted to having an affair with a woman a few years ago. At the time, my mother was very upset and even threatened to leave, but somehow they worked it out. However, he still seems to be seeing this woman. They talk on the phone for hours at a time, he visits […]

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DEPRESSION AND MEDICATION

We live in a very complicated world and sometimes we get depressed. Many choose to take medications to help with this, but a recent Harvard study showed that depression medication–for those who are mildly to moderately depressed–has no more impact than that of a placebo. For the severely depressed, medication was found to have more effect.For some […]

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DARK, DIRTY SECRETS

Everyone has moments they’re not proud of–mistakes they made or bad choices they regret. Some, though, have secrets they hide in shame. Clients sometimes tell me about these, confessing in hushed, halted voices to sins they can’t forget or forgive themselves for.They fear the consequences of these secrets ever becoming known, but more than this, they […]

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HOW TO FORGIVE

“My husband and I have a happy healthy relationship for the most part, but it changes when he goes to work.  He works out of town every other week and it seems like every time he leaves we start arguing.  The minute he gets home we are as happy as can be.  I don’t know […]

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YOU GET TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF

Let’s just start off by saying there are usually many right ways to accomplish whatever, but many individuals still insist they’re right about pretty much everything.Admittedly, being right feels good. We’re like kids in the classroom, eagerly raising our hands when we know the answer. We love winning–being right!–so  much that many of us are tempted to cheat […]

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QUESTIONING YOURSELF

We focus a lot on resolutions at the first of the year–often the same ones every year–and after getting a gym membership and a personal trainer, subscribing to a diet service or promising ourselves we’ll live better lives in various ways, we often fail. Let’s admit it, sometimes we suck. We don’t tell our bosses […]

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