Therapists in Denton, Tx.
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Cassondra is an experienced helping teens and adults to address head trash and trauma that keeps them anxious and shut down utilizing EMDR and other techniques.
It Should Not Be This Hard Just to Get Through the Day.
You feel like you are always pretending. Pretending to be okay. Pretending to care. Pretending you are not overwhelmed when your mind is racing and your body is begging you to shut down.
For some people, that might look like pushing through work and family demands while carrying silent guilt. For others, it might be dragging yourself to school, faking a smile with friends, and avoiding anyone who asks too many questions.
Either way, it feels like too much.
The stress, the pressure, the noise in your head that never lets up. You say yes when you want to say no. You snap at people you love. You feel tired all the time, even when you are doing nothing at all.
This is not about weakness. You are stuck in survival mode, and you are doing what you can to get by. But you do not have to keep doing it alone.
I work with teens and adults who are tired of pretending, tired of pushing through, and ready for things to feel different. Whether you are facing anxiety, trauma, burnout, or just the heavy expectation of keeping it together, therapy can help you understand what is going on and how to make it better.
Our work will be honest. We will talk about the hard stuff. We will figure out what is keeping you stuck and how to help you move through it. This is not about fixing you. It is about helping you feel like yourself again.
If you are ready to stop surviving and start living in a way that feels real, I am here when you are ready.
Let’s talk.
Cassondra Davis, LCSW, EMDR
Lynn has weekend appointments available.
Lynn has extensive experience working with teens, adults of all ages, and couples seeking to overcome past or present adversity.
If you are looking for life and clinical experience to help you get through, click below to set up a free 15-minute phone consultation or intake appointment with her.
Life has thrown more at you than most people will ever understand. You’ve pushed through, handled it, and done what needed to be done but it’s starting to take its toll. You’re tired of being strong all the time, tired of keeping it together for everyone else, and tired of feeling like you should be further along by now. You feel sad, depressed, and anxious. You realize it’s impacting your life and your relationships.
And if you’re a parent, you see the same struggle in your teen. You watch them pull away, make choices that scare you, or shut down completely. You know they’re hurting, but you don’t know how to reach them. You’ve tried to help, but nothing seems to stick, and you’re scared of where things are headed.
I work with adults and teens who have lived through hard things, trauma, grief, substance use, divorce, or families that couldn’t give the support they needed. You’ve done what you had to do to survive, but those old wounds still show up in how you think, feel, and connect. I use evidence-based trauma work to help you process what’s holding you back so you can finally move forward instead of just pushing through.
I know what it means to survive, and I know the work it takes to rebuild. My goal isn’t to fix you, it’s to help you feel steady, capable, and connected again. You’ve already done the hardest part by getting here. Now it’s time to start living differently.
Lynn Marshall, LPC -S
Vinny works with teens, young adults, and families to break cycles and build strong relationships with themselves and others.
Vinny utilizes CBT, DBT, and Attachment therapies to assist her clients in healing.
Click below to set up a free 15 minute phone consultation or intake appointment.
You have Googled things like:
“Is this trauma?”
“Am I anxious or just overthinking?”
“Why do I keep attracting the same type of person?”
“What does a healthy relationship even look like?”
You have watched the TikToks.
You know the words: attachment style, boundaries, gaslighting, nervous system regulation.
But knowing the language has not actually changed the pattern.
Understanding the pattern is step one.
Learning how to interrupt it is step two.
Vinny helps you build the skills that turn insight into traction and lasting change.
Vinny works with teens and young adults who are tired of repeating cycles. Anxiety that will not quiet down. Relationships that start intense and end the same way. A sense of identity that shifts depending on who you are with. The quiet thought that says, “I should know better by now.”
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Vinny looks at the full system, your history, your relationships, and the beliefs you formed about yourself along the way. Therapy is not about labeling you. It is about identifying the pattern and building the skills to change it.
Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, she helps clients catch distorted thinking before it spirals, regulate intense emotions, without shutting down or exploding, set boundaries without guilt, and recognize attachment patterns that keep pulling you into the same dynamic
For teens, Vinny uses attachment-based family therapy to reduce emotional volatility and rebuild trust at home. She does not take sides. She helps families strengthen communication and create healthier interaction patterns that last.
For young adults, therapy often centers on rebuilding identity after heartbreak, abuse, family disruption, or major life transitions. Vinny helps clients define what healthy relationships actually look like and how to maintain that peace without abandoning themselves to keep it.
She is energetic but grounded. Direct but not harsh. Accepting, but not passive. If you are ready to move from awareness to action and build relationships that actually feel stable, Vinny will meet you there.
Virginia “Vinny” Gresham, LMFT (TX. 203884)
Esther specializes in working with children 3 and up, helping families understand the root of emotional and behavioral challenges, not just managing symptoms.
She integrates Child-Centered Play Therapy, EMDR, and parent training to strengthen connections at home and build lasting emotional resilience.
Esther enjoys working with children, teens, parents, and couples.
Click below to set up a free 15 minute phone consultation or intake appointment with me.
When your child is struggling and nothing seems to be working, it can feel overwhelming fast.
The tantrums are escalating.
School keeps calling.
Everything at home feels tense.
You are tired.
You have tried reasoning. Consequences. Being firmer. Being more patient. Reading the parenting books. Listening to the podcasts. And you are starting to wonder if you are missing something bigger.
Sometimes your child’s reactions trigger something in you, and you do not like how you respond in those moments. You may even catch yourself thinking, “I do not want to handle this the way it was handled for me.”
Esther specializes in helping children ages 3 and up work through emotional and behavioral challenges at the root level. Rather than focusing only on surface behaviors, she helps families understand what those behaviors are communicating.
Children do not process stress, fear, anxiety, or overwhelm through long conversations. They process through play.
As a Certified Child-Centered Play Therapist with advanced EMDR training, Esther creates a calm, structured play environment where children can safely work through anxiety, big emotions, attachment struggles, behavioral concerns, and stressful experiences in developmentally appropriate ways. She is steady, present, and deeply attuned, helping children feel understood while building emotional regulation and confidence.
Therapy does not stop at the playroom door.
Esther works in partnership with parents through Child–Parent Relationship Training, equipping you with practical tools to reduce power struggles, strengthen connection, and respond to your child’s emotions more effectively at home. You will understand what is happening in therapy and how to support progress between sessions.
Because children are part of a larger system, Esther also helps families address patterns, stressors, and relational dynamics that may be impacting a child’s behavior. As children grow, those same emotional patterns often show up differently in adolescence, which is why Esther also works with teens navigating anxiety, identity development, and relational stress.
Her primary passion is helping children and parents rebuild connection, confidence, and emotional resilience together.
Esther Smith, LPC, RPT™, CCPT, CPRT, NCC, EMDR
Claudia is a bilingual counselor specializing in working with individuals moving through transitions, including teens, young adults, and adults.
Claudia is accepting clients on weekday evenings.
I guide individuals through the intricacy of life's transitions. It can be daunting to go through transitions, whether they involve educational pursuits, personal life adjustments, relationship dynamics, or the grieving process. You can feel lost, confused, alone, anxious, and depressed even when it is a transition that you WANT to make. I have guided students and parents through these processes for years as a school counselor.
What sets me apart is my unique ability to connect with individuals through a cultural lens, recognizing the diverse backgrounds and experiences that shape one's life. I take immense pride in representing the mental health community as a minority counselor. I understand the significance of offering culturally sensitive and inclusive counseling services and acknowledging the unique challenges that may arise due to cultural identity. I strive to empower my clients to navigate their transitions with resilience, self-discovery, and a renewed sense of purpose. My ultimate goal is to not only assist them in overcoming immediate challenges but also to equip them with the tools needed to thrive throughout their journey of personal growth and transformation.
Claudia Gonzalez Smith, LPC
Adults & Couples | Trauma | Relationships | Attachment
Darly is 100% virtual with telehealth and does not see clients in person.
Have you ever wondered, “Why am I the way I am?”
Maybe you keep finding yourself in the same relationship patterns. You people-please even when you're exhausted by it. You know your reactions don't always fit what's happening now, but changing them feels harder than it should.
Sometimes the things that helped us navigate our earliest relationships continue shaping how we see ourselves and connect with others long after we need them.
Darly works with adults and couples who want to understand those patterns and change what is no longer working. Her style is direct, compassionate, and insight-oriented, with a focus on childhood trauma, complex trauma, attachment injuries, relationship difficulties, infidelity, life transitions, and men's mental health.
“My goal isn't simply to help you cope better. It's to help you build a life that is no longer organized around your past.”
Darly integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), psychodynamic principles, and other evidence-based approaches. She also offers Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for appropriate clients seeking deeper therapeutic work.
Darly is the author of Echoes of a Ghost Child: An Unbecoming and creator of the Relational Language Quiz. Both reflect a theme that runs through her clinical work: understanding what shaped you, deciding what no longer belongs, and developing greater freedom in how you live and relate to others.
If you're ready to look underneath the patterns and understand what's driving them, Darly may be a good fit for you.
Darly Sebastian, LPC
Brandy Stiles loves to challenge clients on their beliefs and work with those who woke up one day and realized their life was not what they wanted or are feeling stuck. In addition, she is part of the LGBTQIA+ Community and specializes in both teens and adults who identify as such.
Brandy Stiles, LPC-S
I connect with adolescents and adults that are struggling with big life changes, choices, and feeling trapped in their current situation. You feel like you can’t make decisions. Constant negative cycle of voices in your head. You’re lonely and becoming resentful toward everybody. You struggle to forgive yourself and others. You believe that nothing is ever going to change. You envy other people’s lives and idealize them. Many times you may feel you are too busy surviving to think about thriving. You realize the crap from your past is holding you back in some way and you’re stuck!
We all fall down and I get to the core quickly to help you get back up. I’m honest, genuine, and real with you. I’m a fighter and I will fight with you and for you to have the life you want. I will help you dig in and unpack the stuff you don’t want to unpack but desperately need to because it holds you back from being the person you want to be.
Cyndi Doyle is an expert in law enforcement mental health and relationship issues. She also .loves of helping people move through anxiety, helping other helpers, high achievers get out their own way, and high conflict couples find intimacy.
You probably already know a lot about yourself.
You've thought about it. You've read about it. You may have been to therapy before. You can probably explain where some of your patterns came from.
And yet, something still isn't shifting.
I work with people who are ready to go deeper and figure out what is actually driving the pattern. Childhood experiences. Trauma. Relationships. Neurodivergence. The things you've adapted to. The things you've gotten very good at functioning around. Maybe overfunctioning to burnout.
Sometimes the thing that looks like the problem isn't actually the root of it.
I tend to see patterns quickly, make connections, ask hard questions, and challenge you when I think there's more underneath what you're telling me. We'll understand it, but we're also going to do something with what we find.
First responders, spouses & couples
As a law enforcement spouse (ret.), clinician, national trainer, and subject matter expert on law enforcement relationships, I understand the culture and the ways the career can shape the person wearing the uniform and the relationship waiting at home.
I especially enjoy working with first responder couples when the career isn't the only thing in the room. Trauma histories, previous relationships, betrayal, attachment wounds, resentment, and old protective patterns can collide with the conditioning and stress of the job in complicated ways.
Clinicians & helpers
People who spend their lives helping everyone else can become exceptionally good at functioning. You may have insight for days and still be unable to see the pattern you're standing in.
I enjoy working with clinicians, practice owners, and other helpers. I can see underneath the overfunctioning, challenge the intellectualizing, and give you a place where you don't have to be the one who has it figured out.
Trauma
I work with trauma in many forms, including childhood trauma, relationship and betrayal trauma, and cumulative or acute experiences related to first responder work. I use Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) when appropriate and am interested in doing the work that helps your brain and body finally process what you've already spent plenty of time understanding.
Check out Cyndi’s Code4Couples website for more information about her expertise with First Responders or her podcast or her book Hold the Line: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Law Enforcement Relationship.
Cyndi Doyle, LPC-S, NCC, Advanced ART, CCISM (TX. 14584)
