WhistleStop Counseling is a Texas family-operated counseling practice dedicated to cultivating community, sustainability, and personal growth.

Our Counseling Services

At WhistleStop Acres, we pride ourselves on intentional service built upon various levels of expertise, both with humans and animals. We believe in order to provide quality service to our clients, we must have quality education. By pairing therapeutic learning with the powerful impact of animals, we believe the greatest opportunity for hope and healing is established.

  • Our individual counseling services seek to create a safe place for clients to reflect, process, and grow. Our counselors listen intentionally, help identify personal goals, and sit with you through whatever life has to offer.

  • Our goal is to create safe spaces to learn, understand, and walk through emotions in community. In our groups, we aim to build support without expectation or pressure, as well as foster an environment for each person to heal in their own time.

  • Animal-Assisted Counseling involves clients and animals co-existing in the therapeutic setting at a comfort level for both, in order to create an atmosphere of healing. Research and experience have proven animal assisted therapeutic work brings psychological benefits in both the medical and mental health spaces.  We believe both client and animal have a distinct opportunity to experience a connection and companionship that diminishes fears, increases hope, and remove pressures that are often roadblocks in the healing journey. We honor the needs and comfort of both client and animal in the process, which affords all involved to have voice and choice in order to manifest an organic experience.