Marriage can be incredibly challenging, especially when every day feels like an uphill battle. If busy schedules or urgent needs are keeping you from weekly couples counseling, Wilson Counseling in Houston offers a solution. Our Couples Intensives are longer sessions that provide focused, powerful support to help you repair and strengthen your relationship without the long timeline of traditional therapy. When you need help now, Wilson Counseling is here for you. Call today to start feeling closer to your partner at 713-565-0922.
Struggling to help your adult child become independent? “Failure to launch” affects more than just young adults—it can persist into midlife, leaving parents torn between support and enabling. Our Houston therapists can help families understand the root causes of this challenge and offer practical strategies to encourage growth, responsibility, and long-term success. Call 713-565-0922 today to schedule.
Parenting Adult Children: Why Boundaries Still Matter
When your kids become adults, it’s easy to think your job as a parent is done—but that’s rarely the case. Whether they’re living at home or navigating life on their own, adult children often still need emotional support, structure, and even guidance during life’s ups and downs. At Wilson Counseling in Houston, we understand how challenging it can be to shift from hands-on parenting to setting respectful, healthy boundaries with grown children. If you’re unsure how to balance love and limits, this guide will help you redefine your role while maintaining a strong, respectful connection.
Should You Financially Support Your Adult Children?
Deciding whether to support your adult children financially is a deeply personal and often emotional choice. At Wilson Counseling in Texas, we help parents navigate the fine line between offering support and encouraging independence—without compromising their own financial or emotional well-being. Call 713-565-0922 to get parent coaching today.
Parenting doesn’t stop when your children become adults; the challenges just change. As you navigate the complexities of adult-child relationships, managing difficult dynamics requires patience and strong boundaries. In this post, we’ll explore how to address these challenges effectively while maintaining your well-being. If you need help with parenting adult children, our Houston therapists can help guide you. Call 713-565-0922.
Supporting transgender kids can be a difficult journey, but it's essential for their well-being. As a parent, it's important to create a safe and supportive environment at home and to advocate for their rights outside of the home. In this blog post, we'll discuss some ways you can support your transgender kids, using gender-affirming language, connecting with local resources such as transgender counseling in Houston, TX, and educating yourself on transgender issues.
Learn how to navigate co-parenting with a challenging partner. Raising kids is tough enough, when you and your ex or your partner don’t get along, it’s even trickier. Our caring Houston, TX parent therapists, divorce therapist and family therapists can help you find a path forward when co-parenting seems to have stalled or you are dealing with a difficult co-parent. Call us today today to get help at 713-565-0922.
It’s hard to know what to do when your child is struggling emotionally. You want to be there for them, but sometimes everything you try is not working and it’s time to call in some help. That is exactly where child therapy can be a support to you and your child. We have trained child therapists who can give your child an outlet and tools to deal with hard things, as well as give you advice for how to best come alongside your child.
You can never really be ready for the harrowing journey that is parenting. It can be wonderful--magical, even--when things are smooth, and your kids are happy. Sometimes, however, it can seem like a total failure, where you feel clueless and ill-suited to parenthood. And, because the stakes are so high, it’s painful to feel like a failure at one of the most important things you will ever do.
Compromise
Communicate as a team
Communicate directly with your ex
Don’t talk badly about your ex
Don’t ignore special days like birthdays
Do not involve kids in adult decision
Pick your battles
Be flexible with your schedule
Don’t expect your ex to handle things the way you do
Share information, updates, photos, and accolades with your ex
Enjoy your time off
Have a support network
As the parent who never has the color coded schedule, doesn't have a Pintrest board for what to do with my kids on rainy days, and is not the first one to sign up for that school field trip to the Renaissance Festival, I appreciated this Huffington Post article entitled, "Parents, It's Ok If You're Barely Getting By Right Now.
