I am a licensed professional counselor in the state of Texas and am a member of the American Counseling Association. I have a Bachelor’s Degree from Skidmore College where I graduated with honor in Psychology. I continued studying at Southern Methodist University, where I earned a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology while working as a teaching assistant.
I have had the honor to assist children, families, couples and adults in the DFW Metroplex for eight years as a counselor. I began my early clinical work as a human resource consultant, providing vocational assessment, coaching and strategic human resource planning to rising executives. Young and ambitious as ever, I extended my influence by serving as a board member for the DFW Organizational Psychology group. While this work was exciting and rewarding, it left me cold on another level. I sought to help people on a more personal level, and becoming a counselor seemed to “fit” much better with my personality.
In 2000, I became licensed, quickly opened a private practice, and formed alliances with several local entities, such as CITY House, Galaxy Counseling Center, Turtle Creek Manor, Green Oaks Hospital, the Denton Deputy’s Juvenile Impact Program and the Plano Independent School District. At the same time, I developed another specialty area in treating chemical dependency. I eventually created a dual diagnosis intensive outpatient program for Lifenet of Dallas, which continues to be an invaluable referral source of many local chemical dependency agencies in the metroplex.
In the last five years, I have honed another area of expertise I am very serious about. As a chronic pain survivor, I take great pride in helping other chronic pain patients learn to manage and conquer their condition. I developed a chronic pain program for Multicare Medical Group in Richardson, and later joined the Texas Back Institute in Plano as a full-time behavioral medicine clinician. During the week, I have opportunity to work with a renowned group of surgeons and health professionals at the CARF-Accredited Texas Back Institute CoPE program, which has been featured on Fox 4 News. I am also an active speaker, who has given talks in symposia at the Southwest Psychological Association, and lectured in the classroom at the Southern Methodist University Psychology Department. I have also lectured on Biofeedback and Mind/Body Principles at the Texas Back Institute’s Neuroscience rounds, as well as told my personal story, Living with Chronic Pain, at the Presbyterian Hospital of Plano Chaplain’s Rounds.
I live in Plano, Texas with my wife and our young daughter. As anyone who is raising a family, I am a student of life, a work in progress, and blessed to be a father and husband. My true passion is family and relationships. I bring this passion with me to each counseling session, in which I see other people who are struggling to work through various relationship issues.
“Through all of the ups and downs, the tragedies and triumphs, the fighting and forgiveness, we learn to love!”
--Seth Myers, MA, LPC