Carmen Simon(She/Her/Hers)

Carmen Simon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) located in Houston, Texas. Her practice specializes in elevating cultural diversity, with a special emphasis on working with 2SLGBTQIA+ adults, youth, and couples, as well as other sexual and gender minorities. Carmen's approach to working with clients is warm, relaxed, and flexible. She believes that the pathway to a client's success is built upon 1) a strong and organic connection between the client and the therapist, 2) a strong focus on the client's definition of their goals, and 3) a holistic approach to integrating evidence based practices with a client's own lived experience, intuition, and motivation to create change in their life.

Carmen has worked in the mental health field since 2007, and trained at Dominican University of California, where she received a MS degree in counseling psychology in 2019. Therapeutic modalities that have lent well to Carmen's therapy practice are:

*Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

*Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

*Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)

*Mindfulness Based Therapy

*Somatic Based Therapy

*Liberation Psychology

*Trauma-Informed Therapy

Before becoming licensed, Carmen specialized in working with substance abuse disorders, and clients with co-occurring substance abuse disorders and other Axis I or II mental health diagnoses (Dual Diagnosis). Since then, she has grown her practice to work with myriad different clients and diagnoses. Some of the most common life events that have precipitated therapy with Carmen are:

*Depression

*Anxiety

*Self-Esteem

*Body Issues

*History of Trauma

*Phase of Life Issues

*Major Live Events

*Neurodiversity-ADHD, ASD, OCD

*Grief and Loss

*Sexual and Gender Identity Exploration

*Racial and Ethnic Identity Exploration

To learn more about Carmen and her therapy practice, or to find out if she is the right provider for you, you are encouraged to book a free 15-30 minute consultation call/virtual meeting.