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Myrna Engler, LCSW-S, RPT, PLLC

Licensed Clinical Social Worker – Supervisor

Myrna Engler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience. She works with children, teenagers, adults, and families of diverse ethnicity and provides individual, play, and family therapy. Myrna also provides bilingual counseling and is fluent in Spanish.

Her aim is to establish a non-judgmental environment in which there is emotional safety. In therapy, she works with her clients together as a team to understand how anxiety, depression, prior relationships, intergenerational trauma, and what is in the unconscious that may show up in personal, parenting and professional relationships.

 

Myrna also loves working with families and helping parents with their relationships with their children. She feels that parenthood is an ever-changing process, and she is here to help with each phase of parenting development. She will help parents collaborate together on improving relationships with the self-first, child/children, and as a family.

Myrna’s Education and Experience

Myrna graduated from The University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work and attended The University of Houston for her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

She is currently in advanced training in Adult & Child Psychoanalytic Thinking Programs at theCenter for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, Texas. Prior to opening her private practice, she received significant experience working with sexually abused children and their non-offending families at The Children’s Assessment Center.

Myrna’s Clinical Approach

Myrna loves including parents as they navigate raising their child, teenager, and young adult through development stages. Additionally, she works with parents who are seeking ways to improve parenting skills as they experience their own personal struggles. When her clients first come to her, they notice a change in their child's attitude and behaviors and may also experience changes in their own lives. Her philosophy is that what worked in a different stage of a child’s development doesn't necessarily work now. Childhood changes may cause stressors even to the most patient of parents. She is here to help parents with this difficult job and guide them through all the stages.

Myrna’s Areas of Practice

Her areas of practice include:

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Grief / Loss

  • Transitional Issues

  • Intergenerational Trauma

  • Family relationship Issues

  • Parenting Skills

Myrna’s therapeutic modalities include psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalytic thinking psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy.

Counseling Services Provided by Myrna:

On a Personal Note

Myrna loves spending time with her family, husband and two daughters. Additionally, she enjoys exploring renovated buildings, bed and breakfasts and places off the beaten path.