Meet Jack

Jack serves out of our Allen office as the location’s lead child and adolescent therapist. Jack holds a passion for helping children, teens, and their families become the best versions of themselves possible while offering support for whatever struggles they might face. It is no secret that life can often feel challenging and overwhelming; yet far too often the struggles of children and teenagers are overlooked or brushed aside. Regardless of how old you are, your problems deserve to be recognized—and you don’t have to struggle through them alone.

We all have unmet needs in our lives. Whether we are striving for connection with others, a desire to prove ourselves capable of greatness, or the courage to face life’s hardships, we all have aspects of our lives that cause us to struggle or feel inferior.

In his practice, Jack uses Adlerian Therapy techniques to establish an environment of unconditional trust and support so that he and his clients can identify their unmet needs and find more positive methods of addressing them in everyday life. Finally, Jack is a firm believer that the best results are achieved when parents and caregivers are involved in the process, working as equal partners to help the child meet their goals and become the healthiest version of themselves.

Jack is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in the state of Texas, having earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Kennesaw State University and a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Arkansas. He began his career as a clinical intern with Methodist Family Health, assisting children, teens, and families with navigating the stresses of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Jack is thrilled to be a part of the Lifeologie team and to extend his services to families in need.

Fun Facts

When not at the clinic, Jack is an unapologetic nerd at heart, possessing a deep love for superheroes, creative writing, and playing tabletop games with his closest friends. By far his most exciting story is of the time that he and his family were chased by a bear in the mountains of Colorado while he was in elementary school. It is his hope that there are no hard feelings, though the bear has made no comment on the matter thus far. For now, Jack has opted to call the matter a draw and declined all requests for a rematch thus far.

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Meet Carrie

Carrie believes that all people deserve to be treated with compassion and without judgment. Her approach to counseling involves building relationships and attachments with clients and caregivers so that clients feel safe in times when they are the most vulnerable.

Carrie uses techniques from play and activity therapy to establish trusting relationships with children and involves parents as needed in order to enhance connection with the child in meaningful, healing ways. This is achieved through rapport building with parents, working at the child’s pace and modeling appropriate attachments within the therapeutic relationship. Carrie also has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques which she uses with older children, teens and adults to help them see that challenging and changing some of their thoughts and behaviors can help them cope with their circumstances.

Carrie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin. Carrie has over fifteen years of experience working with parents and children. She began her career as an Early Intervention Specialist and later as a counselor with Early Childhood Intervention of LifePath Systems. She has also worked in private practice for the past ten years providing counseling to children of all ages, teens and adults.

In 2019, Carrie was selected as a “Mom-Approved Wellness Professional” by DFW Child Magazine. In addition to seeing clients, she works as the Clinical Program Manager for Beacon of Light, a mental health ministry of St. Andrew Methodist Church.

Carrie has comprehensive training in child development, parenting and behavior modification. She specializes in working with children, tweens and teens, caregivers and Moms struggling with parenting/life demands and/or postpartum depression and anxiety. As a therapist, Carrie’s goal is to work with the family as a whole and provide strategies to the caregiver that can be implemented at home in between sessions. She believes that the most successful and lasting results come when everyone works together as a team.

Carrie recognizes that parenting is hard, but so is being a child or teen in a world of academic and social pressures which include technology and social media. Her hope is that she and her clients embark on a journey together with outcomes specific to each person’s unique circumstances so that change will endure as the journey continues.

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Meet Heather

Heather’s passion is to come alongside individuals, couples, and families though the beautiful mess we call life. If you are wrestling with how you relate to yourself - shame, identity, anxiety, depression, or wrestling with how you relate to others - marital, parenting & co-parenting, family dynamics, communication - you don’t have to go it alone.

Heather is an avid believer that relationships provide a window to the heart of an individual like no other. Our closest relationships tend to reveal our most wounded places. Those hurts, if left unresolved, are carried forward and recast into our patterns of relating. All our experiences, but most particularly our pain, become the filter through which we sift and construct our view of self, our approach to life, our ability to trust, and our capacity to love and be loved.

Heather approaches counseling as a come-along-sider, offering a client-counselor relationship that pursues the depths of the client’s heart while simultaneously welcoming all that it finds there. Free from condemnation, judgment, and shame, she offers an environment which beckons one to draw close, discard their masks, and lay bare their scars. Believing authentic freedom requires us to face our pain rather than flee from it, she will lead you towards those wounded places to find Healing, Restoration, and Hope.

As a child, Heather grew up in an environment of addiction and generational divorce. Her life experiences, personal journey in counseling, and education have allowed her to develop a unique perspective of how our woundedness becomes the filter through which we sift and construct our belief systems. “Since our beliefs ultimately drive our emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses, when we build our lives around distorted beliefs, we have sabotaged ourselves.”

As a mother of a blended family; two biological children, three step-children, and one child through an informal adoption, Heather has a passion for strengthening parent-child relationships, facilitating co-parent relationships, and enabling the voice of the young by helping parents see the world through the lens of their child.

Fun Facts

In her spare time, Heather enjoys spending time with family & friends, finding the next piece for her weird art collection, traveling, and all things science fiction. She believes in failed leaps over half steps, ugly laughing at her own jokes, living outside the box, owning her own failures, singing out loud at musicals, apologizing easily, and if it’s crazy, to live a little crazy.

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Meet Brittany

Brittany Ertz specializes in working with individual teens, young adults, adults and families who are struggling with trauma. She also specializes in treating self-harm, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Brittany understands that our lives can feel broken and fragmented, we look down at the pieces and wonder how we got here. She has a way of connecting our current experiences to our past to heal for our future, to mold those broken pieces together. When working with teens, Brittany knows how to connect well with the younger generation and also strives for a whole family to be connected and healed. Pulling from her own childhood & adolescent experiences, she is committed to shielding her clients from the loneliness that comes from not being able to share their hurts, fear, and pain.

Britt will connect, empathize, and support you as you dive into what seems uncomfortable at first, but in the end, is a beautiful journey. Using integrated therapies, she will help you learn how to discover and challenge your thoughts, uncover hidden or unresolved traumas, and heal from within oneself. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which focuses on ultimately healing from traumatic memories. Emotion Focused Therapy for Adolescents (EFT), and Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TI-CBT) which will help validate and connect your interpersonal emotions whilst challenging unhelpful or harmful ways of thinking.

You can trust Britt to create a welcoming and empathetic environment where you are able to explore the deepest facets of your thoughts and emotions. She works within the framework that you are the expert on your own life and you are allowing her to partner alongside you, to listen and to care so that you truly don’t feel alone in your life.

She firmly believes that we are not alone in this world. Kintsuji is a Japanese art of bringing broken or fragmented pieces together by adding metal filaments, and her passion is to come alongside others as they experience their fragmented broken pieces, help mold them together to know the deep and meaningful healing that grows into a beautiful creation.

Fun Facts

Britt enjoys traveling, finding new coffee shops, going to the gym, and reading. She and her husband, Cisco, love serving at their church and enjoying the company of friends.

One of Britt’s favorite quotes is by Irvin Yalom: “We cannot say to them you and your problems. Instead, we must speak of us and our problems, because our life, our existence, will always be riveted to death, love to loss, freedom to fear, and growth to separation. We are, all of us, in this together.

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Meet Holly

Challenges can reveal various characteristics in individuals that can be conveyed through depression, anxiety, avoidance, loneliness, mistrust and oftentimes a sense of hopelessness; whether individually or within a relationship, these feelings are real. Please know you are not alone. This thing we call life can be as exhausting as it can be beautiful.

Holly has a passion for walking alongside individuals or couples as they identify the speed bumps in their life, discover any fractures that need repair, and repave the road for a smoother journey. For some acknowledging there is a speed bump can be the most difficult step. You may not be able to readily identify the speed bump or how it appeared; you simply determine unfamiliar feelings now exist where familiarity once resided. Life stressors, communication concerns, phase of life transitions, or relationship challenges are all obstacles that in time if not addressed, can result in a life of discord.

Holly’s approach to counseling is to learn more about previous experiences that shape who you are today, as well as current circumstances in order to better understand you in this moment. She will meet you where you are in your journey creating a space free of judgment where you can be your most authentic self; this means bringing all of you, even the parts that feel fearful, resentful, ashamed, confused, or vulnerable. Everything you feel is important and deserves care, attention, and a voice. Once speed bumps are identified and genuine feelings have been revealed, the healing can begin. No matter how deep the fractures are in your current situation, there is always hope.

Holly was born and raised mostly in Houston, Texas but has lived in several states throughout her life. While she enjoyed the new locations and beginnings, there was always a period of adaptation to her new environment. Fortunately, Holly was raised to understand the importance of maintaining focus on the future and despite life’s challenges and loss, to continue moving forward with a hopeful mindset. “Resilience is the ability to adapt to difficult situations. When stress, adversity or trauma strikes, you still experience anger, grief and pain, but you’re able to keep functioning — both physically and psychologically. However, resilience isn’t about putting up with something difficult, being stoic or figuring it out on your own. In fact, being able to reach out to others for support is a key part of being resilient.”

Fun Facts

Holly enjoys spending time with family, friends, and her rescue dog, Franklin. She loves anything creative whether remodeling or refinishing furniture, painting, experimenting with her Cricut (which she’s had over ten years but has only used it a handful of times), traveling, reading, decorating and going to the movies. Holly believes in pursuing your dreams no matter how unattainable they may seem, encouraging words, new beginnings, time on the water, and the power of a smile.

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Meet Cindy

Cindy is passionate about empowering adults on their journey towards mental and emotional well-being. She creates a safe, supportive environment where individuals can explore their thoughts and emotions more deeply to gain greater self-awareness, experience personal healing and develop resilience. She firmly believes that everyone has the potential to rewrite their story and experience a life filled with renewed purpose and joy.

Cindy grew up in Southern California where she went to undergrad and eventually went on to receive her doctorate in educational studies from Talbot Theological Seminary. She and her family relocated to Texas where she planned to utilize her skills and education in vocational ministry. It was during her own transformative counseling experience that Cindy’s life was radically changed. The impact was so profound that she felt compelled to make a mid-life career change and went back to school to pursue counseling.

Growing up in an immigrant family gives Cindy insight into the distinct challenges that people of color and children of immigrants may encounter. She has a deep understanding of the complexities and wounds that can emerge from one’s family of origin. Her childhood was marked by chaos and instability and under the weight of immense pressure to constantly prove her self-worth, she developed a pattern of relentless performance that ultimately led her down a path of exhaustion and burnout. This cycle of striving and pushing herself beyond her limits kept her trapped, unable to break free and fully embrace a life of fulfillment. Through the power of counseling, she confronted the deep-rooted issues that had held her captive for far too long and unraveled the layers of her past, gaining clarity and insight into the patterns that had shaped her life. Cindy emerged from counseling with a newfound sense of self-awareness, self-compassion, and the tools to navigate life’s challenges with resilience and authenticity.

Cindy’s personal encounter with the life-changing power of counseling fuels her commitment to helping individuals navigate their own journeys of self-discovery and healing.

Fun Facts

Alongside her husband, Peter, and their two daughters, the family shares a passion for two things that bring people together: good food and travel. In her free time, she expresses her creativity through the art of hand-lettering and crafting handmade cards. She starts every morning with a cup of coffee and at some point during the day she has watched TikTok videos and snuggled with her dog, Pixie.

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Meet Courtney

Courtney’s desire is to come around couples, individuals, and teens seeking support and desiring to make positive changes in their overall wellness. Many clients find themselves “stuck,” unable to configure an avenue that points them in the right direction. Courtney’s goal is to guide her clients in accepting themselves, creating new ways of thinking, and helping restore mental, physical, and emotional freedom.

As your counselor, Courtney will help you develop a fresh perspective to reach restoration and prosperity. You can expect to receive the highest level of care from her based on acceptance, genuineness and empathic understanding. She will continuously strive to create a safe and welcoming therapeutic environment, where you can freely explore and share your thoughts, ideas, goals, and needs.

As a former athlete, teacher, and coach, Courtney has the opportunity to connect with students and athletes who find themselves struggling with school, sports, and pressures that come with performing on the field and in the classroom. This includes supporting parents as they balance the needs of the individual and family unit.

Getting to Know Courtney Courtney experienced a series of traumatic events that led to her eventual pursuit of becoming a counselor. On her 16th birthday, she suddenly lost her dad and shortly after, her brother was diagnosed with cancer, which was quickly followed by more death and trauma within the family. It was through those difficult experiences that prompted many questions and created a desire within her to help others, as a therapist once did for her.

Fun Facts

Courtney thrives on patios with great weather, being near a body of water and investing in her community. She also has a competitive nature, which was proven by the half court shot she made at the Dallas Mavericks basketball game.

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