Meet Our McKinney, TX Therapists

Experienced, compassionate support for adolescents and adults seeking greater peace, confidence, and connection.

Who Denise Works With
Adolescents • Adults • Older adults • Parents • Individuals navigating marriage, family, or relationship concerns

Best Fit For
Anxiety and depression • Mood disorders • Trauma, PTSD, and complex PTSD • Stress • Relationship and family conflict • Parenting • Marriage concerns • Codependency • Infertility • Adoption • Self-esteem • Motivation • Major life changes

What Denise Helps Clients Do
Process trauma • Establish healthier boundaries • Understand attachment patterns • Strengthen relationships • Rebuild confidence • Navigate major transitions • Develop practical coping skills • Create greater peace and emotional well-being

Denise’s Style
Warm • Empathetic • Accepting • Supportive • Insightful • Relationship-focused • Encouraging

Treatment Approaches
CBT • Client-Centered Therapy • Solution-Focused Therapy • Trauma-Informed Therapy • Attachment-Based Work • Boundary Development • Enneagram-Informed Exploration

Experience
20+ years serving the community • Professional counseling • School counseling • Education • Group facilitation • Mental Health First Aid, parenting, and infertility seminars

Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor • National Certified Counselor • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional • Master’s in Counseling

What It’s Like to Work With Denise
Denise creates an accepting, supportive environment where clients can speak openly, understand themselves more deeply, and develop useful tools for healthier living. She helps clients find connection in their relationships and greater tranquility within themselves. Her work is grounded in the belief that while we cannot always add quantity to life, we can create more quality.

Empowering, integrative therapy for clients ready to overcome difficult experiences and create a healthier path forward.

Who Tamara Works With
Teens • Adults • Older adults • Couples • Families • Clients in Texas and Colorado

Best Fit For
Anxiety and depression • Trauma and PTSD • Bipolar disorder • Borderline personality disorder • Mood disorders • Grief • Stress • Self-esteem • Major life transitions • Abuse recovery • Substance use • TBI • Alzheimer’s and dementia • Parenting • Family and relationship concerns • Self-harming behaviors • Suicidal thoughts

What Tamara Helps Clients Do
Process trauma • Regulate difficult emotions • Examine personal beliefs and habits • Strengthen relationships • Navigate family challenges • Build confidence • Clarify future goals • Create new paths toward independence and happiness

Tamara’s Style
Supportive • Collaborative • Empowering • Attentive • Adaptable • Goal-oriented • Experiential

Treatment Approaches
EMDR • Solution-Focused Therapy • CBT • DBT • Experiential Therapy • Gottman Method Level 1 • Integrative Therapy

Experience
Private practice • School counseling • Intensive experiential counseling • Women’s retreats • Couples and family therapy • Support for neurological and cognitive conditions

Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and Colorado • Master of Education in Counseling

What It’s Like to Work With Tamara
Tamara creates a collaborative environment where each client’s voice is heard and their goals guide the work. Together, clients explore the beliefs, habits, and doubts influencing their present lives while developing a clearer vision for the future. Her goal is to help clients create positive change, build independence, and experience greater confidence and freedom.

Warm, culturally responsive therapy for adolescents and adults seeking healing, self-understanding, and meaningful personal growth.

Who Ansu Works With
Adolescents • Young adults • Adults • Trauma and abuse survivors • Clients from diverse cultural backgrounds

Best Fit For
Anxiety and depression • Trauma and PTSD • Abuse recovery • Grief and loss • Stress and overwhelm • Life transitions • Relationship concerns • Identity exploration • Cultural concerns • Boundary difficulties • Self-acceptance

What Ansu Helps Clients Do
Process trauma and difficult emotions • Understand connections between past and present • Explore cultural and personal identity • Establish healthier boundaries • Develop coping strategies • Reconnect with personal strengths • Build self-acceptance

Ansu’s Style
Warm • Empathetic • Authentic • Validating • Creative • Culturally responsive • Empowering

Treatment Approaches
Person-Centered Therapy • EMDR • CBT • DBT • Expressive Arts • Art Therapy • Psychoeducation • Mindfulness • Meditation

Experience
Private practice • Psychiatric PHP and IOP programs • Adolescent counseling • Young-adult and adult therapy • Trauma-informed support

Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor • Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling • Academic background in psychology, disability studies, and linguistics

What It’s Like to Work With Ansu
Ansu creates a compassionate environment where clients from all backgrounds can feel heard, validated, and safe to be imperfect. She helps clients explore how trauma, culture, and personal beliefs influence their present lives while developing practical and creative tools for healing. Clients can expect authenticity, encouragement, and space to recognize their strengths and celebrate progress.

Creative, culturally responsive, trauma-informed care for children, adolescents, adults, and families.

Who Brittany Works With
Children ages 4–17 • Adults • Families • Groups • LGBTQIA+ clients • Multicultural families

Best Fit For
Trauma and PTSD • Anxiety and depression • ADHD • Attachment concerns • Behavioral and emotional dysregulation • Crisis stabilization • Learning differences and IEP concerns • Parenting • Identity development • Cultural adjustment • Self-harming behaviors • Suicidal thoughts

What Brittany Helps Clients Do
Process trauma • Regulate difficult emotions • Improve behavior and relationships • Build resilience • Navigate school and family challenges • Strengthen self-esteem • Develop practical coping tools • Reconnect with personal strengths

Brittany’s Style
Warm • Grounded • Creative • Collaborative • Compassionate • Culturally responsive • Nonjudgmental

Treatment Approaches
Synergetic Play Therapy • DBT • CBT • Family Systems Therapy • Trauma-Informed Care • Neuroscience-Informed Interventions

Experience
Child and adolescent therapy • Crisis stabilization • High-risk behaviors • Co-occurring disorders • Complex family systems • International experience across the United States, Asia, and Africa

Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor • Certified Synergetic Play Therapist • Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Trauma and Crisis

What It’s Like to Work With Brittany
Brittany creates a safe, affirming environment where clients’ experiences and cultural identities are heard and respected. She meets clients where they are while helping them build insight, emotional resilience, and skills for lasting well-being. Her goal is to help clients move beyond managing symptoms so they can strengthen relationships, reconnect with themselves, and move forward with confidence.

Compassionate, family-centered support for children, teens, and young adults navigating trauma, emotions, and life’s challenges.

Who Michelle Works With
Children ages 3+ • Teens • Young adults • Families • Parents and children • Neurodivergent clients

Best Fit For
ADHD • Autism • Anxiety and depression • Trauma and PTSD • Attachment concerns • Adjustment difficulties • Family conflict • Life transitions • Self-esteem • Stress management • Women’s concerns

What Michelle Helps Clients Do
Process traumatic experiences • Express difficult emotions • Develop healthier coping skills • Strengthen family relationships • Build confidence • Adjust to change • Improve communication • Work toward individual and family goals

Michelle’s Style
Compassionate • Collaborative • Warm • Supportive • Dedicated • Family-centered • Encouraging

Treatment Approaches
Play Therapy • EMDR • Expressive Arts • Family Therapy • Person-Centered Therapy • Talk Therapy

Experience
Child and adolescent counseling • Family trauma recovery • Parent collaboration • Young-adult therapy • Individual and family support

Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor • Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling • EMDR Trained

What It’s Like to Work With Michelle
Michelle creates a safe, supportive environment where clients and families can feel understood and empowered. When working with children and teens, she collaborates closely with parents to address questions and strengthen progress outside of therapy. Whether using play, creative expression, or conversation, Michelle tailors care to help each client heal, grow, and achieve meaningful goals.

Direct, practical therapy for adults and couples who want to understand difficult patterns and develop better tools for moving forward.

Who Jacob Works With
Adults • Couples • LGBTQIA+ clients • Clients in Texas and Illinois

Best Fit For
Anxiety and depression • Trauma and PTSD • Substance use and addiction • ADHD • Autism • OCD • Bipolar disorder • Personality disorders • Anger • Grief • Eating disorders • Chronic illness • Relationship and marital concerns • Infidelity • Divorce • Men’s concerns • Self-harming behaviors • Suicidal thoughts

What Jacob Helps Clients Do
Challenge unhelpful beliefs • Manage difficult emotions • Change unhealthy patterns • Strengthen relationships • Improve communication • Develop practical coping tools • Navigate adversity • Work toward realistic resolutions

Jacob’s Style
Direct • Focused • Practical • Nonjudgmental • Individualized • Trustworthy • Solution-oriented

Treatment Approaches
REBT • CBT • Narrative Therapy • Interpersonal Therapy • Logotherapy • Internal Family Systems • DBT • Rogerian Humanistic Therapy

Experience
Private practice • Boarding schools • Children’s residential homes • Adult counseling • Couples therapy • Support for complex mental health and relationship concerns

Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and Illinois • Master’s in Clinical and Community Mental Health Psychology

What It’s Like to Work With Jacob
Jacob creates a trusting, nonjudgmental environment where clients can speak honestly and focus on meaningful change. His approach is direct but personalized, using the methods that best fit each client’s needs and responses. Rather than pursuing perfection, clients work with Jacob to expand their emotional toolbox and respond to life’s challenges more effectively.

Calm, thoughtful therapy for adolescents and adults seeking deeper self-understanding, healthier patterns, and authentic change.

Who Sonali Works With
Adolescents ages 16+ • Adults • LGBTQIA+ clients • Individuals exploring identity • Trauma survivors

Best Fit For
Anxiety and depression • Bipolar and mood disorders • Complex trauma and PTSD • Social anxiety • Grief and loss • Life transitions • Identity exploration • Personality disorders • Perfectionism • People-pleasing • Codependency • Boundary concerns • Self-worth • Negative thinking patterns

What Sonali Helps Clients Do
Understand unconscious patterns • Explore the impact of early experiences • Process difficult emotions • Establish healthier boundaries • Challenge negative thinking • Strengthen self-worth • Re-author personal narratives • Live with greater courage and authenticity

Sonali’s Style
Calm • Grounding • Compassionate • Curious • Deeply attuned • Reflective • Patient

Treatment Approaches
CBT • ACT • Psychodynamic Therapy • Narrative Therapy • Person-Centered Therapy

Experience
Private practice • Residential substance-use treatment • Psychiatric hospital care • Adolescent and adult counseling • Support for complex mental health concerns

Credentials
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist • Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology • Academic background in psychology, human development, and family studies

What It’s Like to Work With Sonali
Sonali creates a safe, consistent space where vulnerability is honored rather than rushed. Her sessions allow room for silence, reflection, emotion, and laughter. She listens intentionally to clients’ words as well as what their emotions, bodies, and nervous systems may be communicating, helping them move forward with greater clarity, courage, and self-understanding.

Warm, practical therapy for teens and young adults seeking clarity, stronger relationships, and meaningful forward movement.

Who Madison Works With
Teens ages 13+ • Young adults • Adults through age 35 • College students • New parents

Best Fit For
Anxiety • Relationship concerns • Addictive behaviors • Depression • Trauma and PTSD • Eating disorders • Family dynamics • Identity exploration • Self-esteem • Stress • Grief • OCD • Divorce • Work and school pressures • Postpartum depression

What Madison Helps Clients Do
Build resilience • Strengthen identity and self-confidence • Establish healthier boundaries • Improve communication • Manage stress • Change unhealthy patterns • Navigate major transitions • Gain clarity and purpose

Madison’s Style
Warm • Authentic • Compassionate • Practical • Collaborative • Encouraging • Evidence-based

Treatment Approaches
CBT • ACT • Mindfulness • Motivational Interviewing

Experience
Addiction recovery • Eating-disorder treatment • University counseling services • Adolescent and young-adult counseling • Support through major life transitions

Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor Associate • Master’s in Counseling Psychology • Supervised by Denise Thornton, LPC-S, License #72711

What It’s Like to Work With Madison
Madison believes therapy should provide both connection and momentum. She creates a welcoming environment where clients can speak honestly while developing concrete skills they can use outside of therapy. Clients can expect support, practical strategies, and thoughtful guidance as they move from feeling stuck or overwhelmed toward a life that feels clearer, more purposeful, and fulfilling.