ACCESSIBLE SERVICES
Accessible mental health care
is our mission.
We believe everyone deserves effective and quality mental health care and support.
We believe that mental health affects everyone and everyone can benefit from the support and skills and tools that counseling can provide. In order to make counseling more accessible we offer a variety of options to support your lifestyle.
If you cannot afford one of our awesome therapists established fee, please discuss our accessible care services. We are an Out of Network provider - this means we do not accept insurance - and our accessible services allows us to make counseling affordable.
We currently have FREE or sliding scale counseling services available. Our student and counseling interns have all the education and even the skills to best support you. They are new to the field and closely supervised by Dr. Stephanie Waitt, LPC-S, CEDS.
Dr. Steph has over 15 years experience in the mental health field and remembers the challenges that young and new therapists in the field are presented with. In order to help more people get help and help new and young professionals in the field, Texoma Specialty Counseling is a certified training and practicum site.
This means we can offer free, low cost services to those who need it, and allow our student interns to gain essential experience in the field. You can be assured you are receiving top treatment and care, as students and interns meet frequently with Dr. Steph to review cases and ensure the best treatment and care is being provided.
We also do believe in our work and our student interns and new counselors have low fees (starting at $35) and we will explore a fee that is best for your lifestyle. If you wish to use your insurance, our interns may be able to offer to see you for the cost of your insurance co-pay. If you do not have insurance or you cannot afford the assigned therapists fee, we can offer you a low fee counseling session and reserve FREE spots for those in need.
We will explore all our options and services with you during an intake session with one of our counseling interns ($75).
Meet some of our
Current Student Counselors
May Chinn, Student Counselor
Hi I’m May Chinn!
Welcome! I’m glad you are here.
We are all affected by our past experiences, how they changed us, and our reactions to those experiences. Sometimes people think their reactions to their experiences don’t “make sense.” In therapy together, I am here to witness your story and help you put the puzzle pieces together. Your reactions do make sense. Our brains are highly adaptive and everything they do is with the goal of protecting and taking care of us. Sometimes, however, our reactions to our past experiences aren’t helpful to us, despite our brain’s best attempts to take care of us. Through therapy, these reactions can be worked through, adjusted to be more helpful to you, and/or replaced with new, more constructive reactions and skills.
Because I believe that YOU are the expert on YOU, this will be a team-working experience, and one I am so excited to embark on with you!
My Qualifications and Philosophies
I am in the process of obtaining my master’s degree in counseling psychology at Texas Woman’s University. My approach to therapy is informed by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), relational-cultural therapy (RCT), and feminist theory. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes your values and encourages you to pursue them in the manner that feels right for you. Relational-cultural therapy honors the fact that you are a social being who is affected by the people and society around you and empowers you to improve your connection to both. Finally, feminist theory acknowledges the societal, political, and cultural causes and solutions to what brings people into therapy and takes these into account throughout the therapy process.
I see therapy as a place to make sense of your story. What experiences influence the way you show up in and interact with the world around you? As we discover the answers to this question and questions like it, you will have the opportunity to think deeply about how you want to show up in the world and how you want to interact with others. Therapy is the place that is all about you. Let’s get to know you!