In-person therapy in Houston, online in Texas • In-network with BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, UHC, Oscar, Tricare, Curative • Therapy in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi • Immediate Openings
Child & Teen
Child & Teen Therapy in Houston, TX
Children and adolescents communicate in particular ways. Kids tend to speak through play and behavior; teens, through silence or in sudden bursts. In specialized therapy, they are supported in understanding their own forms of expression and met in ways that are developmentally appropriate and responsive to who they are.
We offer therapy for children and teens in person in Houston and online across Texas. Our clinical team of PhD-level psychologists is in-network with Aetna, Cigna, BlueCross BlueShield, UnitedHealthcare, Oscar, Curative, and Tricare. We'll verify your benefits before your first appointment.
Our clinical director reviews each inquiry personally and recommends a clinician whose background and approach fit what each kid is bringing in.
Our psychologists come from diverse cultural backgrounds, speak several languages, and have worked in multiple countries and settings. We are attentive to how culture, migration, race, gender, and identity shape a person's life and inner world.
Our clinical approach is depth-oriented. We are interested in what sustains the symptoms, not only what they look like on the surface. Why does this keep happening, and where did it come from? These questions take time and require a different quality of attention, a willingness to stay with what is uncomfortable, and a clinician who can hold complexity over the long term.
Where clinically indicated, our psychologists also draw on structured, evidence-based approaches, including CBT and other manualized treatments for trauma, OCD, and other conditions. Depth and structure are not opposites. For many patients, both are part of the same course of treatment.
What Changes Over Time
Fewer explosions or shutdowns
Clearer words for hard feelings
School and home routines that hold
Friendships that feel steadier
More curiosity, less hiding
Specialized Training in Children and Teens Therapy
Children and adolescents present differently than adults, and accurate clinical reading requires training that goes beyond general psychotherapy. Specialized training matters most when a child or teen's difficulties span multiple settings and do not respond to standard intervention, when behavioral presentations may be masking anxiety, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, or mood disorders, when family systems are themselves in distress and complicate the clinical picture, or when a young person's presentation requires careful differential diagnosis before a treatment direction is set.
Jonathan Haidt. End The Phone-Based Childhood Now.
The Atlantic, 2024. Read here.
David Robson. The biggest myths of the teenage brain.
BBC, 2022. Read here.
From Our Journal
The Fear of Being Misunderstood.