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I believe every person has a unique story, deeply influenced by personal experiences and the larger systems we live—such as family, community, culture, and society. These interconnected systems help shape our understanding of ourselves and influence the narratives we create, often from a young age. At times, however, these narratives no longer align with who we are as adults, especially when we face life transitions, relationship challenges, or personal struggles.

Life can be overwhelming; sometimes, the stories we’ve created about ourselves become confusing and hard to understand. I strive to provide a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore their concerns and unique stories. I use Narrative Therapy to help clients externalize their challenges, seeing problems separate from their identity. This process empowers clients to rewrite unhelpful narratives and reconnect with their values, strengths, and resilience. By considering the influence of family dynamics, societal expectations, and cultural norms, I work with clients to understand how these external systems shape their stories and relationships.

In addition, I incorporate Gottman techniques to provide couples with practical, research-based tools to enhance communication, manage conflict, and strengthen their emotional bond. Gottman’s approach is focused on building trust and intimacy, teaching couples how to approach each other with empathy and respect, even in challenging moments. By integrating these approaches, I support couples in creating healthier patterns of interaction that align with their shared goals and values.

I am dedicated to fostering a compassionate and inclusive environment where everyone feels heard, understood, and empowered. I believe everyone is the expert in their own life, and I am committed to helping clients rewrite their stories to promote healing, growth, and personal fulfillment.

Christina Watts is currently a graduate student in Southern Methodist University’s Counseling Program, working toward a Master’s degree in Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. She holds dual Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Houston—one in Business Management and Administration and another in Psychology. She has developed a diverse educational background to support her work with individuals, couples, families, and groups. As an active member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Christina is passionate about creating inclusive and affirming spaces for clients and has completed specialized coursework to support members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

I believe that therapy is most successful when there is a safe space for clients to come exactly as they are. The therapy room should be the place for individuals and couples to authentically show up no matter their struggle, knowing that I will meet them with support, encouragement, and healing. My goal is to join with my clients to find their unique path towards healing and growth. Whether it is conflict, grief, anxiety, disappointment, relationship issues, life transitions, or processing the past, no one should have to walk through their struggles alone.

In all my work, I am passionate about creating a welcoming space that fosters compassion, authenticity, openness—and hopefully joy. I am passionate about delivering a meaningful experience for my clients and seek to provide them with moments of discovery about themselves and their partners.

In my practice, I use a variety of counseling techniques. With individuals, I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to process how to move through the challenges in life with acceptance rather than avoidance. In my work in couples and relationships, I use the Developmental Model, which focuses on how relationships evolve and how partners can work to grow together to foster connection and relationship satisfaction. I am certified in Prepare/Enrich, which is one of the most widely respected premarital programs. I am also certified in the Enneagram testing and analysis, which is a way to understand different personality types.

Allie Brookman is currently a graduate student at Southern Methodist University. She is currently working towards a Master’s degree in Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. She is expecting to graduate in August 2025. During her time at SMU, Allie has strived to learn and experience in a way that supports her work with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Before her time at SMU, Allie attended the University of Oklahoma and obtained a bachelor’s degree in business, focusing on non-profit organizations. After graduating, she worked with women who had experienced sexual exploitation. This experience taught her about the power of connected relationships and that it is important not to walk through healing alone, ultimately leading to her choosing counseling as a profession.

Are you or someone in your family struggling with loss, anxiety, or depression? Do you sense you or your family aren’t living their best life, but do not know how to move forward? I am a firm believer in personal strength and believe all individuals can learn tools to overcome hardships and loss. With my encouragement and guidance, you can learn how to add new tools and techniques to your “tool boxes,” which can be utilized to build the grit needed to thrive in life. Therapeutic techniques utilized for individuals and couples are EMDR, client-centered therapy, as well as Imago Relationship Therapy. For premarital work, Lindsey is certified in the Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS), a well-respected and widely used assessment and curriculum.

When counseling individuals and couples, the therapeutic tools I incorporate include calming techniques, empathy,  validation, and practicing active listening. Throughout my practice, I employ tools to address relationships, anxiety, and depression by using bilateral stimuli, journalling, and mirroring.

Lindsey is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas (#68592). She earned her Masters degree in professional counseling from Texas Wesleyan university. In the past, Lindsey worked for the non-profit organization, Lena Pope. She worked with adolescents, families, & couples. Also, Mrs. Beckman worked in the Tarrant County Juvenile Detention Center where she facilitated groups on behavior management, communication, and coping skills. Lindsey has been a practicing clinician since 2009 and continues to strive to be well-versed in the most effective forms of therapy today.

Dr. Paul Stanford, Founder & CEO, says:

Lindsey walks the walk, as she’s always looking to improve herself as well as her clients. She is as dedicated to her clients as they come.

There is a common adage that love is the most powerful force in the world. Great academic minds such as Albert Einstein along with great social reformers such Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. have all professed its transformative power. With every year of my life, I am more and more convinced that love does, in fact, have the ability to nourish, heal, liberate, calm, strengthen and even embolden every soul. To be loved and to love, in that order, is the call of every person’s heart.

Love is inherently relational, and my heart is to help people experience the transformative power of love in their relationships with themselves and with others. Of particular interest is working with couples and parents. I have worked with couples experiencing communication problems, infidelity and blended families. I have also worked with adults experiencing life and career transitions.

Tiara is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in Texas (#205527), supervised by Dr. Sean Stokes, LMFT-S (#4983). She earned her Master’s in Biblical Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary. As a Christian, Tiara recognizes the value of faith in one’s life and relationships. If a client wants to integrate their faith in the therapeutic process, Tiara can provide faith-based counseling. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and, with couples, she uses the Gottman Method. She is also a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS), helping to transform the way grieving clients with evidence-based strategies and interventions. In addition to counseling, Tiara is a practicing corporate attorney with over 15 years of experience in the legal profession.

Dr. Paul Stanford, Founder & CEO, says:

Tiara’s professional background speaks to her intellectual acumen, but her passion and ability to help people in need is truly remarkable.

Rhonda Wright is equipped and authorized to see clients with substance use issues and family/friends of those involved with substance use.

As a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, I support individuals with the disease of addiction to help them find a new way of life. This journey involves a changing behaviors, recognizing and learning how to deal with unhealthy emotions and irrational beliefs, and learning how to use mindfulness as a skill. I like to let people know that putting down the substance is easy, it is keeping it down where the work comes in because using drugs and alcohol is an outward expression of what is going on internally.

All relationships are grounded on a foundation that two or more people either choose to build upon or destroy. As individuals grow to know each other they decide to invest in the relationship. With this investment, there will be conflicts and disagreements. This is a very crucial area of the relationship because the decision needs to be made whether or not a withdrawal should be made or if the relationship is valuable enough to continue the investment. As the relationship grows the investment grows and the foundation becomes stronger. No matter the storms that may come what has been built may be destroyed but the foundation will remain where rebuilding and repair can begin.  The way I view therapy is from a solution-focused approach and with this approach I meet people where they are and help them repair and rebuild those areas that have been hit by strong storms.

My goal is to help you find your strengths and develop your identity as an individual, as a couple, and as a family. We are always changing and growing in stages and through these stages, those in our lives are affected by the change. I believe that when a person can change the way they treat themselves they will change the way they treat others.

Rhonda is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC) in Texas (#15662) with a passion for helping individuals and couples overcome addiction and achieve mental wellness. Her robust educational background includes a Master of Arts in Theology, which provides a strong foundation in understanding the spiritual aspects of addiction and recovery; a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling with Addiction Cognate, which focuses on the therapeutic skills and knowledge necessary to address addiction within a broader human services context; and the near completion of a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, which deepens her understanding of mental health conditions that often co-occur with addiction.

Rhonda is proficient in theoretical orientations such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and Social Learning Theory. The approach she uses most is to help clients is a client-centered orientation, meeting the individual and couple at their point of need and concerns. She believes the client-therapist relationship is an alliance where they meet to collaborate on helping the client gain wellness and wholeness. She is a minister trained to provide pastoral counseling if needed as well as a published author of “Knowing Jesus in the Broken places-Wounds Healed by His Scars” and a daily devotional journal “A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey.” This combination of degrees allows her to offer a holistic approach to treatment, addressing her clients’ physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Dr. Paul Stanford, Founder & CEO, says:

Rhonda has a powerful spirit and presence that lets you know you are cared for and heard. She will work with you and meet you where you’re at.

I help people and their relationships transition from stuck to unstuck, from barely surviving to thriving. I believe our relationships and connection with others are the greatest joys in life. Other people can also be a source of immense pain and suffering. I want to partner with you to create realistic goals that change your life and your relationships for the better. Let’s put together a plan that’s crafted just for you. You don’t have to feel stuck anymore.

My goal is to connect with my clients wherever they are in life, in an affirming and person-centered posture. My clients would describe me as always making an effort for them to feel heard and equally empowered in the room. My approach as a therapist includes a basis of being trauma and attachment informed, which means we have all been hurt, especially as children. This can impact our lives today in the form of underlying thoughts, behaviors (CBT), and body effects (Somatics). I utilize evidence-based methods from credible sources such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for individuals, along with the Gottman Method and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and families.

Ray Myers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in Texas (#204523) under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Maurer, LMFT-S (#812). He earned his Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Amberton University. His background includes being a proud USMC veteran with decades of leadership experience working in the private sector, as well as is love of being a dad. He has experience working in private practice with adults, couples, families, teens, children, and neurodivergent individuals. Some of his specialties include issues relating to anxiety, depression, coping, parenting, conflict and more. He is also a certified Prepare/Enrich facilitator, which is one of the most widely used and validated premarital/marital curriculae.

Dr. Jennifer Fast, Clinicial Director, says:

In the time Ray has been with SCC, he has made a big impact. He is diligent about making sure he understands the client’s goals and the issues that impede them from being the best version of themselves.