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 Find Peace. Healing. Hope. 

God restores us as we listen for His truth which sets us free.  Compassionate sessions generate new options for old problems which can bring peace.  Encouragement happens with new ways of thinking, practical tools, boundaries, forgiveness, and healing from resentment.  When you change, others change. 

"Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire." 

(St. Catherine of Siena)         

Kathy Pardue, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor

     Thank you for reaching out to talk about your concerns.  I've worked with couples, women's issues, and adolescents for 24 yrs. to help find peace, stability, and new options for unresolved problems.  

      Edith Stein said, "A woman's soul is a shelter in which other souls may unfold."  Each client is  validated for their thoughts and feelings as truth is surfaced.  Empathy listening is integral to healing of the soul and defenses are softened.

     Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has shown to be the most effective approach and aligns with Christian principles.  Mild to moderate depression and anxiety can often be helped without medication using CBT.  

      Teens and young adult years are the most stressful in balancing hormonal, physical, emotional, and social changes.  Individual therapy is a place of trust to talk freely, yet parents are included every third session to help with goals as desired.  Loneliness has caused the present crisis of an "age of melancholy."

     Couples can restore emotional and sexual intimacy when resentment is healed and communication is safe.  Emotionally-focused Therapy (EFT) helps both to feel heard and understood thru a disciplined habit of validating before giving a defensive response.   

Get the love back thru listening to the message "under the anger..."        

                         

                              BIO

Private Practice since 2001, Houston, TX

License #17184

Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council

​MA- Counseling, 1998

BA-  Business, 1978

Post-graduate work, Dallas Theological Seminary

Thomas University, St. Mary's Seminary, Houston, TX

3 children, 12 grandchildren, married 44 yrs.

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CISD- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.

Group Counseling- Marriage and Adolescents

Speaking- Grief, ADHD, eating disorders, parenting, anxiety, depression.

 

Couples and Marriage Counseling has been a specialty for 23 years using these tools for effective change:

 

LUV-Talk   Listen-Understand-Validate

EFT-Emotionally-focused Therapy

CBT-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 

 

​​Published:

Joyful Women in a Sorrowful World. 2022. 

A Women's Lectio Divina devotional. 

Granted Imprimatur 

 

​Ruach Heroes: Chaos to Beauty, 2023.

A Biblical Fantasy Novel for Teens/Young Adults.  Increase faith, virtues, identity.

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Dancing Above Betrayal: My Audience of One (2026)​​​​​

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Author website:  www.kathypardue.net

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