Center For Social Success

ABOUT US
Dr. Istre is the Founder and Director of the Center for Social Success (CSS). She started her private practice in Dallas after completing her PhD from Oklahoma State University in 1991. She expanded her practice to include a variety of other counseling sub-specialists and incorporated as the Center for Social Success in 1995. Dr. Istre and her staff collaborate closely with a variety of multidisciplinary health care providers, including physicians, occupational, and physical therapists, speech therapists, nutritionists, educational diagnosticians and teachers. Dr. Istre also has an office at the Shelton School, where she and her staff have provided private counseling services to students and their families for over 10 years. WHO WE SERVE
Therapists at the Center for Social Success serve clients of all ages from infancy through adulthood. We help to improve all types of social relationships--including those with friends, dating or marriage partners, parents and children, peers, family of origin and extended family, bosses and co-workers. We have special knowledge in working with children and adults with developmental delays, learning disabilities, ADHD, autism spectrum, stress, anxiety, anger issues, and depression. We provide individual counseling, biofeedback stress management, social skills group therapy, sibling, adolescent, marital, parenting, and family therapy. Our therapists can help you achieve more social success in any relationship that is critical to your happiness and well-being. OUR APPROACH
Our approach to therapy at the Center for Social Success is primarily cognitive behavioral and family systems oriented. We emphasize the importance of a strong client-therapist relationship and the client's right to choose the goals of therapy. We also provide didactic approaches that offer clients concrete help and new ideas to solve old problems. Our family systems approach appreciates the part others play in a person's life and embraces a more interactive view of how problems begin and are maintained. We also use fun and creative approaches- like puppies and trips to the park- to make therapy more effective and enjoyable!