Christian Counseling in Houston, TX
Our Houston office is at 8215 Long Point Road, Suite 11, in Spring Branch. It's a faith-integrated counseling practice on the west side of the city, close enough to Memorial, Spring Valley, and the Energy Corridor that most of our clients get here without fighting the whole loop.
Neema means grace in Swahili. In a city as varied as Houston, that word does a lot of work for us. Our clients come from many countries, many congregations, and many different relationships with church. We consider that one of the better parts of practicing here.
Faith-integrated therapy in Spring Branch, on Long Point Road
Christian counseling at Neema isn't a Bible study with a clinical vocabulary, and it isn't secular therapy with a fish on the door. Your therapist is licensed, trained in evidence-based methods, and comfortable talking about God when you want to.
Because our therapists trained differently, the approach you get depends partly on who you see. Some work from family systems, some from EMDR, some from cognitive behavioral therapy, some from attachment-focused and trauma-informed care. What stays constant is that nobody will treat your faith as the thing to get past, and nobody will tell you your depression is a discipleship problem.
What brings people to Neema in Houston
Immigrant and multilingual families. West Houston is one of the most internationally diverse parts of the country, and a lot of what we see here reflects that. Parents raising children in a culture they didn't grow up in. Adult children carrying expectations from two directions at once. Families where the grandparents' church, the parents' church, and the teenagers' church are three different worlds. This is also where our immigration evaluation work lives, which is a related but separate service described below.
Couples and blended families. Second marriages, stepchildren figuring out where they belong, ex-spouses who still have to co-parent. Blending a family is difficult in a way that surprises people who did everything thoughtfully, and it responds well to real therapeutic work.
Medical Center and energy sector professionals. Houston runs on two industries that both ask people to put their own lives on hold. Residents, nurses, and physicians come to us worn down by shift work and by carrying other people's worst days. Energy families deal with rotations, relocations, and the boom-and-bust anxiety that comes with the sector.
People grieving. Loss of a spouse, a parent, a pregnancy, a marriage, or a version of the future they were counting on. Grief is one of the things our Houston therapists work with most.
Teenagers and children. We see younger clients in Houston too, along with the parents trying to figure out how to help them.
The churches our clients name most often are all right here in Spring Branch. Bayou City Fellowship's Spring Branch campus is up on Brittmoore, Christ Community Church (C3) is on Sherwood Forest, and Sanctuary Church meets at Grace. If your church isn't one of those, or you're not part of one right now, it doesn't change anything about how we'd work with you.
Which Neema therapists see clients in person in Houston?
Allison Sims, LMFT-Associate (supervised by Jenny Dietz, LMFT-S) is our couples and family specialist in Houston. She works across the lifespan, from children to adults, with particular depth in relationship repair, emotional reconnection, trauma recovery, blended family dynamics, and rebuilding communication and trust. Her approach is holistic, honoring mind, body, and spirit, and she brings faith into the work when a client wants that.
Hallie Nicholls, LPC-Associate (supervised by Lynn Strom, LPC-S) sees children, teens, and adults. She specializes in supporting people who are overwhelmed by their emotions or disconnected from who they want to be, including those grieving a significant loss, those healing from church hurt and trying to rebuild faith in a healthy way, and creatives who feel distant from their sense of calling. She uses EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused work, and person-centered techniques.
Beyond these two, our entire team is available to Houston clients online, anywhere in Texas. That includes Fabian Armenta, LPC, who is bilingual in Spanish and English and works with adults, couples, and the Latino community, and Kemi Yemi-Ese, LPC, who works with adults and teens on anxiety and trauma recovery using Gestalt, cognitive behavioral, and art therapy approaches. You'll work with one therapist, so the question isn't how many of us are nearby. It's which one is the right fit. Meeting online simply widens that choice from the two people who happen to be near your zip code to the whole team. You can read about everyone on our team page.
Immigration evaluations for Houston clients
A large share of our immigration evaluation work comes from the Houston area. These are psychosocial and mental health evaluations conducted by licensed clinicians, prepared to support VAWA petitions, U visa and T visa applications, asylum claims, and extreme hardship waivers.
Evaluations are conducted online rather than at the Spring Branch office. In practice that makes them easier to schedule and means you aren't giving up half a day to Houston traffic for an appointment. We work in English and Spanish, and we publish our pricing and turnaround rather than making attorneys ask for them.
This is a distinct service from ongoing counseling, and it has its own page: immigration evaluations and counseling.
Getting to the Spring Branch office
We're at 8215 Long Point Road, Suite 11, Houston, TX 77055. Long Point runs parallel to I-10 through the middle of Spring Branch, which makes us reachable from Spring Valley, Hedwig Village, Bunker Hill, Hunters Creek, Garden Oaks, the Heights, Tanglewood, and out toward Katy and the Energy Corridor.
If you're coming from just south of us, we have a page specifically for therapy in Memorial, TX with directions and details for that side of the neighborhood.
A map and driving directions are on our directions page.
If the drive is the obstacle, and in Houston it often is, online sessions are available throughout Texas. Some clients never come in at all, and that works.
Rates, insurance, and reduced-fee sessions
Neema is in network with Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna, Oscar, UMR, Ambetter, Lyra, Magellan, Medicaid, and Medicare. Taking Medicaid and Medicare is genuinely uncommon among faith-based practices, and it's deliberate on our part. For out-of-network plans we provide superbills.
Self-pay rates are $175 for an intake and $150 for ongoing sessions with a Licensed Professional Counselor, and $150 intake and $135 ongoing with an LPC Associate. Cash, credit, FSA, and HSA are all accepted.
A limited number of reduced-rate sessions are available based on household size and income. Please ask if you need one. We'd much rather have that conversation than have you decide not to come.
More detail lives on our rates and insurance page.
Booking a free 15-minute consultation
Fifteen minutes, no cost, no obligation, and it's a conversation with the therapist themselves rather than a form to fill in. You'll get some sense of how they work and whether you'd be comfortable with them, which is hard to judge from a bio page. And if it turns out not to be a fit, that's a much better thing to learn in fifteen minutes than after a full first session.
Houston FAQ
Where exactly in Spring Branch are you? 8215 Long Point Road, Suite 11, 77055. Long Point runs parallel to I-10, so we're a short hop off the freeway coming from either direction.
Can I see a Neema therapist if I live in Katy, Cypress, or Sugar Land? Yes, two ways. You can drive to the Spring Branch office, or you can meet with any of our therapists online from home. We don't have physical offices in those communities, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than imply otherwise.
Do you perform immigration evaluations for Houston clients? Yes, and it's one of our most established services. Evaluations support VAWA, U visa, T visa, asylum, and extreme hardship waiver cases, in English and Spanish. They're conducted online rather than at the Spring Branch office.
Is counseling available in Spanish for Houston clients? Yes, online. Fabian Armenta, LPC, and Elvia Delgado, LPC-Associate, are both fluent in Spanish and see clients by video throughout Texas. Neither works out of the Spring Branch office, so for Houston clients Spanish sessions are held online.
Do you work with couples and blended families? Yes. Allison Sims is a marriage and family therapist and this is her central area of work, including stepfamily dynamics, co-parenting, and rebuilding trust after a rupture.
Are there therapists at the Houston office who see children? Yes. Both Allison Sims and Hallie Nicholls work with children and teenagers in addition to adults.
We also have an Austin office. It sits three blocks from the University of Texas campus. If that side of the state is closer for you, see Christian counseling in Austin, TX.
Written by Lauren Jones, LPC-S, founder of Neema Counseling.
This page is for general education and is not a substitute for individual assessment or treatment. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or call 911 for an emergency.