Hi, I'm Rhett.
A licensed professional counselor in the Spring–Klein area of northwest Houston — here to make therapy feel a lot less like therapy.
For the hour you're in the room, you have my full attention — no rushing you through a script, no reducing you to a diagnosis. You're a whole person with a story, and that's where we start.
How I got here
I'm the youngest of five. From the time I was a kid, my dad shared things with me that were — as I joke about it now — way above my pay grade. So I became a listener early. By my teenage years it was simply how I moved through the world: leading small groups in youth group, working as a camp counselor, being the one people found when something was heavy. People talked. I listened. It was the most natural thing I did.
I studied counseling and sociology in undergrad and nearly became a counselor right then. Instead, I spent the next twenty years working with people from every other angle: leading a church youth ministry in Ohio, five years as a resident director at Malone University — mentoring college students, mediating conflict, building programs — then sales, nonprofit program work here in Houston, and several years teaching AP Psychology at a public charter high school. Teaching was the turning point. Standing in front of that classroom, it finally dawned on me: I wasn't an educator of this material. I was a practitioner of it.
Looking back, the thread is hard to miss. Something that started out heavy — a kid carrying weight that wasn't his to carry — became the work of my life. I faced that history directly as a young adult, with my dad himself. It wasn't a comfortable conversation, but it gave us an open, honest relationship for the rest of his life. And when my own world shook in college — my parents divorcing back home — a couple of years in the client's chair changed my life. I know what that chair feels like from the inside, and it shapes how I hold this work.
Being invited into someone's story is an honor. I'm humbled by it every time.
Twenty years of people work, then the license
- 2006 Delaware, Ohio — led a church youth ministry.
- 2009 Canton, Ohio — Resident Director at Malone University. Five years of mentoring college students, mediating conflict, and building programs.
- 2014 Earned an MA in Organizational Leadership from Malone; married, and our family started with my wife and step-daughter.
- 2015 Moved to greater Houston for a project-management role — which was really about coaching people on energy-efficiency best practices. The people work was the part that mattered.
- 2017 & 2020 Welcomed a daughter, then a son.
- 2019 Began teaching AP Psychology at a public charter high school — the years that turned the lights on.
- 2021 Started graduate school for counseling.
- 2022–24 Counseling internship and supervision at Changing Tides Counseling in Katy.
- 2023 Earned an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University.
- 2024 Launched the practice.
- 2025 Opened my own office in Spring–Klein (August).
Therapy as an artform
I believe therapy is an artform, unique to each person. There's no single script that works for everyone, so I don't use one. Some weeks we'll talk things through. Other weeks we might use a more focused tool — Brainspotting to work with trauma the body is still holding, or LENS neurofeedback to settle a nervous system that's running too hot. What stays constant is the feel of it: honest, unhurried, and human.
Everyone resonates differently, so I adapt — some moments need a direct question, others need room to breathe. And I try to keep an honest view of my own place in it: I'm not saving anybody. I'm one person. We might meet twice, we might work together for a year, or you might find a counselor who fits you better — and that's a good outcome too. But for the hour you're in the room with me, you have my full attention. Almost nobody gets that anymore, even from the people they love. Here, it's the baseline.
You won't be reduced to a diagnosis
I work with adults, teens (13 and up), couples, and a lot of men around my own stage of life — careers, marriages, kids, and the weight of holding it all together. The common threads: anxiety, trauma, ADHD, moods that swing harder than they should, and the kind of low-grade stuck-ness that's hard to name. Whatever brings you in, you won't be reduced to a diagnosis here. You're a whole person with a story, and that's where we start.
Credentials & training. Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC #91939) in Texas · MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Liberty University) · MA, Organizational Leadership (Malone University) · Level-2 LENS provider · Brainspotting practitioner. Over 20 years of combined experience in education and human services — supporting mental, emotional, and social health through creative, evidence-based approaches.
Curious if we'd be a fit?
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