Virtual counseling

All services at Playful Hearts Counseling Center are provided virtually via Zoom. Your therapist will ​provide you with the link to a virtual secure waitroom and counseling room. your therapist will discuss ​with you any concerns or privacy needs you may have.

Individual counseling

Individual and parent-child counseling sessions are available for children, ages 3 and up, adolescents, ​teens, and adults. Counseling can address a wide range of concerns, and is individualized for each client.​ Stefanie has certifications in several trauma focused therapy modalities for children and adults. These​ certifications are: Parent-Child Care, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Trauma-focused Cognitive​ Behavioral Therapy, and Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention. ​

Play Therapy

Play is the natural language of children. When they are given an environment that is filled with the ​things of childhood, namely toys, their anxiety and resistance to change decreases and their openness ​to learning new skills increases as their overall sense of mastery is encouraged.

Stefanie Thayer, MA, LPC

Owner and lead therapist

Stefanie Thayer is a licensed professional counselor, providing virtual therapy to ​all Texas residents. She works with children ages 3+, as well as with adults.​ Stefanie founded Playful Hearts Counseling Center with the desire to assist those​ who may be struggling with any kind of trauma and daily stressors, through the p​ower of play and connection.

St​efa​nie received her Master degree in 2018, and went on to gain experience worki​ng with adult trauma survivors. She currently works as a therapist at her local child​ advocacy center. There she gained experience with numerous trauma-focused asses​sment and therapy modalities, as well as training in play therapy.

Stef​a​nie utilizes the power of play, the expressive arts, and relationship, throughout he​r therapy to help guide clients through the darkness and into their playful hea​rt. Stefanie understands the wide impact that trauma has on the individual ​and the people that love them. She views all traumas, from the "Big T"s to the "Lit​tle T"s, as equally valid and important. With this understanding, she provides al​l her services under the trauma-focused lens of person-centered, and solution or​iented.

Self-Pay

Out of Network

Call or Text: (361) 210 - 8773

Email: StefanieT@playfulheartstx.org

Availability: Virtual Appointments

M-F: 6:30-8 pm

Sat: 11-4