Houston Galveston Institute, dba HGI Counseling Center

12/26/2025

❄️ WINTER WELLNESS CHECK: How are you taking care of your mental health as the year winds down and the holidays ramp up?

The season between Thanksgiving and New Year's can be both magical and stressful.

We'd love to hear your best strategies for staying mentally healthy during this busy time!

Share your tips below:
• Setting boundaries with family
• Managing holiday stress
• Finding quiet moments in the chaos
• Maintaining routines when everything feels different
• Or something else that works for you!

Let's support each other through the season! ❄️

12/22/2025

🎄 The holidays can be complicated for mental health, which is exactly why HGI's approach is so important during this season.

Traditional therapy often focuses on what's 'wrong' with holiday stress, family dynamics, or seasonal depression. Our collaborative approach asks a different question: 'What would you like to be different about how you experience this season?' Instead of diagnosing holiday blues, we explore what the holidays mean to you personally.

Instead of prescribing coping strategies, we discover together what support actually feels helpful. Instead of fixing family problems, we create space for new conversations to emerge.

This season, our therapists are supporting:
• Individuals navigating their first holidays after loss
• Families blending traditions in new relationships
• Young adults setting boundaries with extended family
• Parents managing children's holiday expectations
• Anyone who finds this 'most wonderful time of year' to be anything but wonderful.

There's no right way to do the holidays, just like there's no single right way to do healing.

At HGI, we create space for whatever your authentic experience is.

Visit our website: https://hgicounselingtx.org/

12/19/2025

🎄 HOLIDAY TRADITIONS: What's one holiday tradition in your family that brings you closer together?

Maybe it's:
• A special meal you cook together
• A game you play every year
• A place you visit as a family
• A way you give back to your community
• Something totally unique to your family.

At HGI Counseling , we believe that connection and belonging are essential for mental health—and the holidays can be a beautiful time to strengthen those bonds. Share your favorite connecting tradition in the comments!

Let's celebrate all the different ways families create meaning together. 🎁

Visit our website to learn more: https://hgicounselingtx.org/

12/16/2025

If you or someone you love needs a little boost during the Holiday Season, please give us a call. Or consider sending us a donation to allow us to offer this deal to more in our community who can't afford counseling. https://hgicounselingtx.harnessgiving.org/donate

12/15/2025

⭐ COLLABORATIVE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE: Sometimes the most powerful gift isn't something wrapped under a tree—it's the moment when someone realizes they're not alone.

This December, that realization is happening in therapy rooms across Houston. It's happening when a teenager finally tells their parents what they're really struggling with. It's happening when a couple discovers they can argue without destroying each other. It's happening when a foster child learns that some adults can be trusted.

These aren't Christmas miracles in the traditional sense. They're collaborative miracles—the kind that happen when people feel truly heard, genuinely understood, and deeply respected.

At HGI Counseling, we've learned that healing doesn't require magic. It requires showing up, listening carefully, and believing that people have the capacity to create the changes they want to see in their lives.

This Christmas season, our gift to Houston is simple: we keep showing up. We keep listening.

We keep believing in every person who walks through our doors. And your support makes that consistency possible, day after day, conversation after conversation, miracle after collaborative miracle.

Support us today! https://hgicounselingtx.org/

12/12/2025

🎁 HOLIDAY GIVING CHALLENGE:

If you could give everyone in Houston one gift related to mental health, what would it be?

Would you give:
• More accessible therapy options?
• Reduced stigma around seeking help?
• Better mental health education in schools?
• More bilingual therapists?
• Increased crisis support services?
• Something else entirely?

Tell us your dream gift for Houston's mental health community in the comments!

Let's dream big together! 🌟

Visit our website to learn more: https://hgicounselingtx.org/

12/05/2025

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12/01/2025