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Meet Our Counselors in Houston, Texas

Joan Mullinax, MEd, LPC, MS

Joan has a lifetime of experience supporting people in building the lives they love and developing resilience in the face of life’s challenges. Joan’s specialties are career development, self-acceptance, healthy relationships, and grief and loss. Joan is a poster child for resilience and positive career change.

Joan offers Individual Therapy, Life Coaching & Career Counseling Services

Steven Serrano, LPC

Steven’s experience includes counseling individuals, couples, families, and teens in the area of trauma recovery, marriage and relationship counseling, anxiety, anger management, addiction, depression, and parenting concerns. With a previous background in business, Steven has also developed skills to deal with workplace stressors while also finding opportunities in the process. Steven is also trained in EMDR therapy and is fluent in English and Spanish.

Steven offers Adult, Couples/Marriage, Adolescent & Family Counseling.

Sarah Soto, MS, LPC

Sarah offers Adult, Adolescent, & EMDR Therapy

Vanessa Guidry, LCSW-S

 Vanessa works with teens, young adults, and families. She helps with behavioral concerns, emotional stress such as anxiety, anger, and depression, building esteem and relationships, as well as coping with life’s changes such as a change in family structure or moving schools. Vanessa also has specialized experience in grief counseling and working with trauma.

Vanessa offers Teen, Family & Adult Individual Counseling 

Alexandra Marshall, LPC

Alexandra’s focus is on helping you develop self-confidence, reduce overeating, emotional eating, or binge eating, cope with feelings of anxiety, loneliness, and isolation, and manage major life transitions such as changing careers or becoming a parent. Alex is also skilled in DBT therapy and providing emotional support and coping skills for postpartum women and parents of young children. Before becoming a mental health professional, Alex practiced as a lawyer. 

Alex offers Individual Counseling for Adults. She runs our daytime DBT Skills Group as well as our Make Peace with Food group.

Diana’s specialty areas include working with mothers at any stage in their journey, as well as working with clients for whom race, culture, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender expression, and other differences lead to questions of identity and belonging. She has helped many clients break past the anxiety and depression that have held them back from engaging fully with their lives. Diana truly considers it an honor to be invited to share in someone’s journey and to walk alongside them as they discover their potential and grow to become their best selves.

Suzanne Kamfar, M.Ed., LPC

Suzanne (Susan) is bilingual (English & Farsi). Her focus is on helping you navigate through life with balance, harmony, and authenticity.

Tiara Runyon, LMSW 

Tiara offers a collaborative approach, fit to suit your individual needs. Her experience includes working with those facing life transitions and struggling with anxiety, depression, and trauma.

Tiara offers individual therapy for children, teens, and young adults.

Tiara is supervised by Marcie Dinkin, LCSW-S.

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Joey offers therapeutic services for everyone aged 3 and up. His background includes helping a diverse clientele develop greater self-worth and learn what’s most important to them in life.

Whatever your experiences have been, Joey strives to provide a judgment-free environment for you or your child to learn and grow. [Children 9 and younger must be seen in person].

Jessie offers child, teen, parent, adult, and family therapy. As a DIR Floortime play therapist, Jessie offers play therapy while working with children, the Neurodiverse population, and persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 

Shannon offers services for individuals or couples. She says, "whether it is Covid life-rebuilding or processing, trauma, wellness, career or life challenges, shifts, workplace stress or dysfunction, counseling issues related to college, loss of home, health, or family, together, we will process it all. We will shape it into a narrative you are proud of, a narrative of who you are, a story of your strength." In her prior vocation, Shannon was an English professor and a University Administrator. 

Jennifer offers counseling services for adults and couples. She has formal training in Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques and practices from a solution-focused lens.

Elizabeth works with clients who are dealing with addictions, anxiety, chronic illness, depression, and grief and loss. Elizabeth's aim is to help you learn more about yourself and how you connect with the world around you. Whether this means processing the impact of a particular behavior, relationships, traumatic experiences, overwhelming emotions, patterns that are keeping you stuck, or simply wanting to create meaning in your life. She is here to support you. 

Kelsey enjoys working with teens, young adults, and couples to help them build the lives they want.