Relationships therapists

Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC, LCDC, EMDR

Liz Keator is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Boerne who is also a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and a certified EMDR therapist. She has 11 years in practice and serves clients across the Hill Country. Her clients include teens, adults, older adults, families and groups, and she specializes in trauma and PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction and relationship difficulties. She also helps with grief, self-esteem, stress and postpartum concerns. Her approach is integrative and shaped around each client's needs and preferences, with EMDR as a central part of her work alongside CBT, DBT, IFS, family systems and narrative therapy. She welcomes clients from every background, and sees them in person in Boerne and online.

Family Therapist, LMFT

Tania Ortiz is a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Antonio who works with individuals, couples and families, including teens and older adults. She helps with infidelity and other relationship issues, anxiety, depression, stress, grief, trauma, self-esteem and life changes, as well as postpartum concerns. With each client she sets and clarifies goals, explores different paths forward and helps them draw on their own strengths to create lasting change and connection. In couples work she uses the Gottman Method, emotionally focused therapy, solution-focused therapy and CBT. She is bilingual and offers therapy in English and Spanish, in person in San Antonio and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LCDC, HS-BCP

Dankel (DK) Paine is a Licensed Professional Counselor and licensed chemical dependency counselor in Schertz with nine years in practice. She works with preteens, teens and adults on anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, relationships and addiction, as well as parenting and family concerns. She believes people cannot always control what happens to them but can learn to change how they respond, and she helps clients make sense of hardship, uncertainty and change. Her methods include CBT, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused work, coaching, and play and sandplay therapy. She works with clients online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, PMH-C

Esmeralda Cardenas is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Helotes and certified in perinatal mental health. She specializes in maternal mental health, supporting mothers through pregnancy, postpartum and parenting, and she works with dads too. Many of her clients seem to be coping well but feel overwhelmed inside, carrying anxiety, intrusive thoughts, guilt, identity shifts and strain in their relationships. She also helps adults and couples with depression, trauma, ADHD and grief. Her therapy is collaborative and structured, offering practical tools and deeper insight to help clients regulate emotions and rebuild confidence, using CBT, ACT, DBT, cognitive processing therapy and somatic, trauma-informed care. She sees clients online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, CADC

Stephanie Knight is a Licensed Professional Counselor and certified alcohol and drug counselor in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She offers individual and group therapy for teens, adults and couples, with a focus on women, helping clients through especially difficult stretches of life when anxiety, frustration or unhealthy coping can take hold. Her areas include anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, self-esteem, substance use, eating disorders and bipolar disorder. She aims to provide caring support and fresh solutions, drawing on CBT, cognitive processing therapy, DBT, ACT, EMDR, emotionally focused therapy, the Gottman Method and motivational interviewing. She sees clients in person in Lake Oswego and online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Melissa Platt is a licensed psychologist in Portland, Oregon, with 22 years in practice. She specializes in helping survivors of betrayal trauma, whether the betrayal came from a parent, partner, friend or an institution such as a school or employer, and in treating OCD. Because both experiences tend to breed self-doubt, much of her work centers on helping clients trust themselves again. She also helps with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief and LGBTQ+ concerns, and works with teens and groups as well as adults. Her evidence-based methods include attachment-focused EMDR, prolonged exposure, ACT, CBT and DBT. She sees clients in person in Portland and online.

Family Therapist, LMFT

Michael Morales is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Beaverton, Oregon, with 11 years in practice. He works with adults, older adults and couples on relationship and couples issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem and stress, helping clients feel more empowered, connected and safe in daily life. He favors evidence-based, systems-oriented tools and draws on the Gottman Method, emotionally focused therapy, IFS, attachment-based, psychodynamic and trauma-informed work. He invites clients who are ready to put in the effort to appreciate who they are now while learning new skills for growth and lasting change. He offers sessions in person in Beaverton and online.

Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CST

Jennifer Besst is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist in Tigard, Oregon, with 16 years in practice and licenses in Oregon and California. She specializes in relationship and sexual concerns, including sexual pain conditions such as dyspareunia and vaginismus, sexual anxiety and differences in desire. She also helps adults and couples with dating, moving in together, conflict, sharing household load, breakups and divorce, and opening a relationship, as well as anxiety, depression, grief and LGBTQ+ concerns. Her approach combines cognitive therapies, interpersonal neurobiology and the Gottman Method, with art therapy and other creative methods when wanted. She sees clients in person in Tigard and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC, LMHC

Stacey Nixon is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Portland, Oregon, who works with preteens, teens, adults, couples and families. She helps clients who feel thrown off balance by trauma, ongoing stress, difficult emotions or distance from a partner, and her areas also include anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, self-esteem, substance use and LGBTQ+ concerns. Whether a client wants to work through trauma or improve communication with a partner, she focuses on building self-acceptance and awareness as a base for change. Her methods include EMDR, emotionally focused therapy, attachment-based and family systems work, CBT, motivational interviewing and compassion-focused care. She offers sessions in person in Portland and online.