O'Brien Counseling Service

At O'Brien Counseling Services, Inc., we are dedicated to providing a wide range of counseling services designed to address the unique needs of each individual we serve. Our commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based treatments is unwavering, and we strive to create a safe, supportive environment for all of our clients.

Our Services

We offer a diverse array of counseling services, including, but not limited to, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Relationship Counseling, Grief, Anger Management, and Stress Management. These services are available in both English and Spanish, ensuring that we can meet the needs of a diverse client base. Additionally, we provide a comprehensive Sex Offender Treatment Program, which focuses on the central treatment goal of decreasing victimization.

Philosophically, we view sex offenders as individuals with a behavioral disorder - one that they can learn to control, but not cure. The development of internal management, or self-control, is an underlying theme in all of the work conducted with the sex offender. However, internal management is often not sufficient to ensure that the sex offender benefits from treatment. Therefore, a level of external management is also necessary. To that end, working with the Community Supervision and Corrections staff, as well as others involved in the offender's life who can affirm or deny the reports given of responsible and/or irresponsible behaviors, is strongly emphasized.

The treatment interventions used by O'Brien Counseling Services, Inc. are based on cognitive-behavioral, reality-oriented theories. Learning adaptive pro-social coping skills, geared toward breaking their offending patterns, are further stressed as part of the therapeutic process.

Our Counselors

All senior counselors providing sex offender treatment are Master's level clinicians. Each is independently licensed with the State of Texas and is a Licensed Sex Offender Treatment Provider (LSOTP). Judy O'Brien, Henry John, Alonzo Mable, and Norma Gamez-Paquin all have experience in treating sex offenders, both in prison and the community settings. The majority of our therapist have over 30 years experience. All intern level counselors are Master's level clinicians and are working toward becoming independently licensed with the State of Texas as an LSOTP. Because OBCS, Inc. staff takes this program very seriously; potential interns are personally selected and trained.