In-person therapy in Houston, online in Texas • In-network with BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, UHC, Oscar • Therapy in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi • Immediate Openings
Depression & Low Mood
PhD-Level Depression Therapy in Houston, TX
People use the word "Depression" loosely, for many states: numbness, quiet, loss of wanting, heavy mornings, moving without interest. We do not ask you to fit a list. We look at when this began, what keeps it in place, and how it shapes your days and ties to others.
Our clinical team of doctoral level, in-network psychologists in Houston provides depression therapy in person and online across Texas.
Our psychologists come from diverse cultural backgrounds, speak multiple languages, and have lived and worked in multiple countries and settings. We are attentive to how culture, migration, race, gender, identity, and social position 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 manualized treatments for trauma, OCD, and other conditions where protocol-driven work has a strong indication. Depth and structure are not opposites. For many patients, both are part of the same course of treatment.
Our clinical team of doctoral-level psychologists provides in-person therapy in Houston and telehealth across Texas. A number of them are also PsyPact-authorized to see patients in other states.
We are in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, United Healthcare/Optum, and Oscar. We verify your benefits before your first appointment. Our clinical director reviews each inquiry personally and recommends a clinician whose background and approach fit what you are bringing in.
What Changes Over Time
More room inside the day
Energy for what matters
Words for what was mute
Less apology for needs
Interest that returns in small ways
PhD-Level Training in Depression
Depression is not a single condition. It presents differently across people, histories, and life contexts, and treatment that does not account for that difference is less likely to hold. Doctoral-level training matters most when depression is chronic or recurrent and has not responded to previous treatment, when it co-occurs with anxiety, trauma, grief, or significant relational difficulty, when the presentation is atypical or complicated by medical factors, or when understanding what sustains the depression requires more than symptom management.
Shon Faye. Depression Is a Haunting.
Vogue, 2024. Read here.
Susanna Schrobsdorff. Depression Is a Pandemic.
Time, 2021. Read here.
John Welwood. Depression As A Loss Of Heart.
The Sun, 1988. Read here.