Casey Unger

Casey Unger is a Texas-licensed professional counselor with three decades of experience in the mental health field. She entered the field in 1994 and has held a professional counseling license since 2002, bringing long-term clinical perspective to her work.

Her background includes work with the chronically mentally ill in public mental health, private practice, inpatient psychiatric settings, diagnostic assessment, crisis intervention, anger management programs, and employee assistance services. Those varied settings inform a practical, results-oriented approach to treatment.

Casey primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and reframe negative thought patterns and uncover underlying schemas that influence behavior. She also incorporates Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear goals and build actionable steps forward. Through these methods she helps people learn to reframe thoughts and move ahead with greater self-direction.

She works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, anger management, self-esteem difficulties, depression, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related challenges, parenting issues, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and ADHD.

Casey is known for being approachable and down-to-earth, and she emphasizes being equal and responsive to the people she sees. She aims to make phone and video sessions feel as personal as face-to-face meetings. Analytical by nature, she looks for patterns in a client’s story and has a strong ability to help clients gain clarity and momentum - an approach she sometimes describes as turning on the windshield wipers in the rain.

Having survived personal trauma and a disaster, Casey brings lived experience of vulnerability to her practice and recognizes how a single event can change a person’s perspective. She typically begins by asking questions to understand who a client is, where they come from, and what has shaped their beliefs, then works collaboratively to plot a better course.

Please note that her schedule can appear limited because she balances other professional roles; clients who need different times are encouraged to message and request alternatives. She is unable to accept clients covered under CVS/Aetna EAP due to a conflict of interest. Also, because of time constraints, she offers individual counseling only and does not provide couples therapy.