West Texas Counseling & Guidance on OpenCounseling

West Texas Counseling & Guidance provides the highest quality counseling and educational services for all residents of the Concho Valley, utilizing evidence-based practices that are effective, affordable, and promote personal development, and independence. The objective of the organization is to help individuals learn to heal themselves in mind, body and spirit.

Services Offered

Children & Adolescent Therapy
Child Therapy helps children under 12 years of age to work through issues of trauma, stress, emotional, and social obstacles, to increase their enjoyment, relaxation, and ability to learn. Child Therapists choose developmentally-targeted activities that help children master their fears and impulses, in a playful way.

Adolescent Therapy helps teens over 12 years of age, to work through issues of trauma, stress, emotional, social, and intellectual obstacles; to increase their enjoyment in life, their ability to relax, and their ability to learn. Adolescent Therapists often blend Cognitive-Behavioral and Rational-Emotive approaches to expand adolescents' thinking, and to help them work through feelings and issues of identity in a healthy way.

Couples Therapy
Couples Therapy helps couples of all types recognize their communication styles, patterns of conflict, methods of conflict resolution, and effective v. ineffective coping strategies.

Couples Counseling is usually brief and solution-focused. It gives couples the time, the structure, and the place to be reflective. It allows couples to think through options before making decisions about rebuilding the relationship, or possibly deciding to go separate ways. In Couples Therapy, counselors remain impartial, giving couples effective skills, practice exercises, and a roadmap to improve the relationship, and manage change.

Family Therapy
Using the dynamic Family Systems model, Counselors are able to address the needs of the whole family, without losing sight of individual members. As a holistic approach, Family Systems uses strategies that allow individual thinking to shift, and positive change to take place.

Grief & Loss Counseling
Grief & Loss Counseling is available for adults, adolescents, and children. People experiencing adjustment issues for grief and loss may be working through issues of: addiction, incarceration, divorce, rejection, infertility, degenerative health problems, death of a loved one, or the end of an important relationship.

Therapy for Substance Use Issues
Several therapists are available to help with drug and alcohol use problems.

Career Counseling
Effective Career Counseling is a scientific, investigative process that marries a person's natural abilities and predispositions to existing work roles, to achieve a 'best fit.'
Using instruments such as John Holland's RIASEC codes, the Strong Interest Inventory, and the Department of Labor's O*Net, professional career counselors interpret personality and occupational data to generate best-fit options, generating realistic plans to achieve a client's goals.

Fees and Payment

The cost of therapy will vary according to your insurance coverage. At West Texas Counseling & Guidance we offer a sliding scale system in order to accommodate those clients who do not have insurance or that might struggle with meeting the cost of having a co pay. We have payment assistance available to help offset the cost of therapy. Assistance might be an option to help with copays, even if you are covered by insurance. Ultimately, we don't want someone to miss out on getting the help they need just because of cost.