Frequently asked questions.

Yes! We think it’s important that we’re a good fit for you and your family. We’re offering a 30 minute consult for $25 for you to review our paperwork, meet your therapist, and experience our atmosphere.

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Yes! We would love to meet you. Click here to see available services.

YES! If appropriate our child therapists will see children as young as three years old for play therapy sessions. More information about child therapy fees and appointments can be found on the child therapy page.

We do! We’re branching out to other wellness services besides trauma therapy. Our speech therapist also provides infant feeding services.

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We also have Occupational Therapy services! To learn more about that you can Click Here.

Yes! We offer telehealth to anyone residing in Texas using a confidential system. This service is a session using webcams between the therapist and the client. Click here to learn more about online counseling or to schedule an appointment.

No. We believe that accepting insurance could create insurance based treatment plans and less confidentiality for our clients. We are private pay to ensure your family doesn’t have an insurance paper trail.

Why The Hope Place doesn’t Accept Insurance

We understand that therapy can be expensive, we also offer a superbill that can be used with your insurance company to claim out of network benefits that might be owed to you.

We have also partnered with Lauren Diaz who accepts a variety of insurance plans.

Yes. We are licensed and can diagnose mental health issues via the DSM-5TR.

Yup! The marriage relationship is the most intimate relationship we can have on this earth. We provide solution focused brief therapy to help get your marriage back on track.

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We have various opportunities to meet the animals at The Hope Place. One of them is life coaching with the horses. To learn more about that, click here.

Each therapist has their own schedule. Some night and weekend sessions are available. Available appointments can be seen on the schedule page. When choosing your therapist you can see what their schedule typically looks like throughout the week.

We are trauma informed and trauma responsive therapists with experience and training in depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, grief, and various mood disorders.

At least one of our therapists specializes in:

Betrayal Trauma

PTSD

OCD

ADHD

Mental Performance Enhancement

Work life boundaries

Divorce Trauma

Life transitions

Medical Trauma

Depression

Anxiety

Phobias

Social skills

Communication problems

Anxiety regarding pain management and dyslexia

Grief

PTSD and more…

Play Therapy, Animal Assisted Therapy, and so much more! To see the full list, check out our services page.

Rachel Malquist offers solution focused brief therapy for our talk therapy and intake sessions. She also offers accelerated resolution therapy to process trauma and revisioning therapy for those who seem to have consistent negative thinking about themselves or others.

Rachel Nauss uses a variety of play therapy techniques to treat children, and she uses Sand Tray therapy for adults and children. Rachel also offers Accelerated Resolution Therapy for all ages, when appropriate.

Jessica Barber also offers a goal oriented, solution focused approach.

Elissa Jeter and Jessica Clough offer goal oriented, CBT approaches.

Karin Schober offers an SFBT approach and sees children, teens, and adults.

Jonette Phegley uses a mix of CBT and client centered techniques.

Tom Macalik utilizes child centered play therapy, Child Parent Relational Therapy, and EMDR.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy is more succinct and procedural than EMDR, although it uses the same eye movements. There is no need for the client to describe their trauma to the therapist, unless the client finds it useful.

Clinically significant improvement typically happens between 1 and 5 sessions. Each session is a stand-alone intervention. No homework required by client.

That depends! Sessions are usually 45 to 50 minutes. This can vary on the service. Each therapist has their own rate depending on experience and licensure. To see each therapists rate you can go to our team page here.