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
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis in Houston, Texas and Across States
Most approaches to therapy ask what is wrong and how to fix it. Psychoanalysis asks different questions. What does this mean, and why does it keep happening? The symptoms, the relationships that follow the same pattern, the things you do despite knowing better: we make space for those to emerge slowly, in the presence of a clinician who listens differently.
Our clinical team of doctoral-level psychologists provides in-person sessions in Houston and telehealth across Texas. A number of them are also PsyPact-authorized to see patients in other states. Sessions are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. All are deeply trained in psychoanalytic approaches.
We are in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, United Healthcare/Optum, Tricare, Oscar, and Curative, and will verify your benefits before your first appointment. Our clinical director reviews each inquiry and recommends a clinician whose background and approach fit what you are bringing in.
Our psychologists come from diverse cultural backgrounds, speak several 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.
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 and a clinician who can hold complexity over the long term.
Real Talk Clinical Psychology offers psychoanalytic therapy in Houston, Texas, in person at our Galleria-area office and online across Texas and other states. Our psychoanalytically trained clinicians work with adults navigating symptoms like depression, anxiety, grief, relational difficulties, identity questions, and the kind of chronic dissatisfaction that does not resolve with symptom-focused treatment alone. If you have been looking for a psychoanalyst in Houston or for psychodynamic therapy that takes unconscious life seriously, we can help you.
What Changes Over Time
Symptoms that lose some of its grip as its meaning became speakable
Less acting outs and more words
More room for your own desire
Shifts in how you understand your place in your own story
Why Psychoanalysis
A psychoanalyst is formed through ongoing supervised clinical work, personal analysis, and engagement with a body of theory that takes unconscious life seriously.
A psychoanalytically trained clinician does not apply a protocol. Instead, they develop the capacity to sit with uncertainty and to work with open-ended questions.
For patients whose difficulties have not yielded to other approaches, or whose questions go deeper than symptom relief, it is often the most precise clinical tool available.
