Female Therapists in Bunker Hill, Houston, TX

“Therapy is a place where kids can learn that big feelings are okay. My hope is that through therapy, I can provide a safe, nurturing, and accepting environment that will allow children to understand and manage big emotions.”

Whether you are in a rough patch that you can’t seem to pull out of, or your marriage is in constant distress, I offer a space for you to create healthy communication and build greater intimacy and connection. I'm passionate about leading couples through difficult times and transitions and challenging them to be intentional about creating a meaningful and loving relationship built on friendship and respect. Do you want to create a new, healthy partnership together? Do you feel lonely although you are a together? Do you assume and accuse your partner before they even speak? Are you at a loss as to how to rekindle your love?

As a licensed psychologist for over three decades, I draw from a wealth of experience and understanding to help you improve your life. I emphasize the connection between a healthy mind, a healthy body, and a healthy life. I work with you to utilize strengths while improving weaknesses. My goal is to help you achieve personal growth that can improve all aspects of your life.

Are you looking for a space to process your emotions safely? Are you ready to start identifying the patterns in life that are interfering with getting what you want? My goal is to holistically help you understand how your trauma and life events have shaped who you are today. Working with me you will feel safe, heard, seen, invited, and authentically cared for.

A child’s behavior is telling a story of what is going on inside. Many times, when our kids are reaching out for connection, they will behave in ways that create the opposite response. When a child is struggling to find positive ways to relate, our team of therapists come alongside them and their family to help them feel more understood, empowered, connected and loved. I believe in conducting therapy in partnership with families, pediatricians, teachers, and other specialists to ensure that each child receives a personalized treatment plan that is reinforced in all settings.

Are you struggling to handle your child's big emotions and behaviors? You have thought of every option to help your child, but you feel like nothing is working. You're tired, busy, and overwhelmed. You've gotten to the point where you have to walk on egg shells to avoid conflict with your young child. It's okay that you feel tired and exhausted. Supporting children through big emotions and behaviors can be very hard.

You have it all. The job, the partner, the family. People are impressed with how you juggle it all, but you don’t like how you show up in each arena of your life. You never feel like you are fully there, fully yourself. You feel like you’re just “doing” things to keep up the facade of being a nice person. But it feels fake and unfulfilling. You are proud of what you have, but you aren’t proud of who you are being. Your life looks perfect from the outside, but on the inside, it feels off.

As a therapist, I am a compassionate witness to your story, helping you to heal, grow and thrive. I am dedicated to creating a safe and supportive environment where you can embark on a transformative journey towards empowerment, resilience and wholeness. I hold a deep belief in the inherent resilience of the human spirit and its capacity to heal from even the most challenging experiences. Whether you're facing past traumas, anxiety, life stressors, or any other emotional difficulties, I am here to guide you towards healing and recovery using various trauma-informed modalities.

Making the decision to seek counseling is often the most difficult step in this process. It takes courage to face your pain or relationship struggles and reach out for help. To assist in this journey, I offer my clients acceptance, compassion, and hope in a warm and relaxed environment. I create a safe and supportive space for you to explore difficulties and loss, as well as opportunities for you to develop new understanding and tools to improve your life and relationships. I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and families on a variety of issues.

Shannon believes that an effective counseling relationship is built on trust, empathy, and acceptance. Her warmth and genuineness provide the foundation for her practice. She loves working with parents and parents-to-be who are navigating challenges in every stage- from infertility to perinatal concerns to parent coaching and special needs parent support. Shannon also enjoys working with clients who are walking through anxiety, grief/ loss, and trauma. For clients who desire counseling from a Christian perspective, Shannon also enjoys integrating faith into her practice.

The pressures associated with high-net-worth and high performance in today's World and Market can lead to paralysis, uncharacteristic mood swings, and choices of miscalculation. You are no stranger to risk and pressure, but something has changed. Loosing your drive for success and ability to meet deadlines and goals has been unthinkable in the past, but today it is a reality.

It's a huge step to get this far, where you're brave enough to look for help. I understand the courage and strength it takes to reach out to a therapist and firmly believe in providing a safe and nonjudgmental space for all individuals, regardless of background.

I'm Jelka Jonker, a licensed family and marriage therapist with over 20 years of experience. My approach is caring, open-minded, and interactive. I have had the privilege of working with a diverse population, providing mental health counseling, relational and marital counseling, life coaching, and sharing Enneagram wisdom when appropriate. My goal is to create a safe and supportive environment where you can feel heard, understood, and empowered on your journey toward well-being.

I have yet to meet anyone whose life experience has been wholly devoid of struggle. It seems to be part of the human condition. Although relative, these struggles are something we are all faced with from time to time throughout our lives. In my experience, therapy provides us with the means to not only face and overcome these struggles, but also to find empowerment and purpose within what may have previously been only pain. My belief in the transformative gift one can experience through effective therapy was born during my own personal journey of healing and growth, and later solidified through my work with others.

Therapy should be a safe place where you can open up and speak freely and honestly. If you feel that your daily life is a struggle, I will work with you to help you understand your issues and help you discover new ways to cope. I can help you create the life you are meant to live with your family, your marriage, and even personally. If you are struggling with a divorce or loss, then psychotherapy is the first step to your next chapter in life. My approach is flexible and active. My techniques stem from formal education and real life experiences.

I ascribe to a humanistic and psychodynamic approach and philosophy of counseling with some cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) mixed in. I focus on client’s emotions, perspectives, and life experiences, rather than just treating symptoms. I believe incongruence, internalized conditions of worth, and unhealthy core beliefs contribute to emotional and psychological distress. Each client is different, what works for one will not work for all. I use a dynamically informed approach in order to create a treatment plan that is best suited to a client's unique needs and goals.

The journey to do emotional work is not an easy one. I have experienced my own personal work and growth in my life and can meet you in yours in therapy with compassion, vulnerability and empathy. Our life experiences can manifest in many ways and those trauma responses can morph into patterns that leave us feeling powerless and lost. We can be driven by unconscious primary emotions that keep us in a triggered and reactive cycle when we are seeking secure and loving connections. As a change agent and a connection expert, I can assist you in your ability to connect with others and thrive.

I don't know what issue brought you here. I haven't met you. I'm not going to tell you what you need. I only know one thing about you: that you're here. So I will focus on that. The variations in our experience are so extraordinarily complex. I want to listen to yours, because that is where we can start. Then, I want us to work on your garden together, growing to seed the desires for your life that will blossom, even being enriched by the mud, if we nurture them with the right tools.

If you feel like things are harder these days, you aren’t alone. You’re trying to balance it all, keep your head above water, and make it look easy - after all - everyone else makes it look easy. But it isn't easy at all. I provide a non judgmental space where you can take time to attend to you instead of everyone else. In my work with my clients, we explore the things that may feel too big or scary to say out loud and come to find that once we acknowledge them, we can work on making them better.