
Where Emotional Health Meets Practical Strategy.
Whether you’re navigating anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, or leadership stress, ThriveFocus Counseling provides grounded, trauma-informed support to help you regain clarity and stability.
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As an owner-led group private practice, we bring a personal, collaborative approach to supporting individuals, couples, and families.

Counseling Services
Individual, couples, and family counseling for the concerns affecting your emotional well-being, relationships, and daily life.
Anxiety & High-Functioning Stress
For professionals and caregivers who appear “fine” on the outside but feel overwhelmed, tense, or emotionally exhausted.
Relationship Conflict & Communication Breakdown
Support for couples stuck in cycles of criticism, defensiveness, shutdown, or emotional distance.
Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
Trauma Recovery & Emotional Safety
Trauma-informed support that helps clients heal without re-traumatization and rebuild a sense of stability and control.
Trust Repair & Relationship Rebuilding
Focused support after betrayal, emotional injuries, or repeated relational ruptures.
Divorce, role changes, parenthood, grief, career shifts, or “this season changed me” moments.
For Professionals & Organizations.
Leadership Burnout & Emotional Load
For leaders and high-responsibility roles carrying invisible emotional weight, decision fatigue, and chronic stress
School Mental Health Systems & Staff Support
Clinical Supervision & Professional Growth
Support for therapists and helping professionals seeking clarity, confidence, and ethical growth.
Trauma-informed consultation, training, and systems alignment for schools and organizations.
How It Works
How We Move Forward — Together
Request Support
Complete our secure Carepatron form to share what you’re looking for.
We Review Your Request
We review your needs, clinician availability, and payment options to help identify a potential fit.
Connect on Next Steps
Our team contacts you about availability and scheduling. Together, we begin with a plan grounded in your goals.
Why ThriveFocus Counseling
Trauma-informed care
Systems-level leadership experience
Gottman-informed couples work
Practical tools, not just conversations
Evidence-based methods
Meet Our Clinicians

Ashley Whitley-Mitchell, LMFT-S
Owner & Clinical Director
Ashley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor with more than a decade of behavioral health experience. She provides compassionate, trauma-informed care that helps individuals, couples, and families navigate relationship challenges, emotional patterns, and life transitions. Her collaborative approach emphasizes self-awareness, healthier communication, and meaningful, sustainable change.
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Areas of Focus
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Relationships • Trauma • Life Transitions

La’Brendrea Miller
Marriage and Family Therapist Graduate Intern
Supervised by Dr. Shantee Mayfield
La’Brendrea supports young adults navigating career transitions, personal growth, stress, and changing responsibilities. She also works with couples and partners in diverse relationship structures, creating an affirming space to explore communication, attachment, and boundaries. Her approach encourages emotional awareness, confidence, and healthier connections.
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Areas of Focus
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Young Professionals • Couples • Boundaries

Oprah Montague, LPC-S
Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor
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Starting October 26th!
Oprah brings more than 10 years of behavioral health experience supporting adolescents, adults, and families. Her warm, relatable, and trauma-informed approach creates a welcoming space where clients can feel heard and understood. She uses evidence-based strategies to help individuals navigate anxiety, trauma, emotional challenges, and difficult life experiences while developing healthier coping skills.
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Areas of Focus
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Adolescents • Trauma • Mood Disorders

Krystal Davis, MS, MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Krystal supports clients through the intake process and intensive outpatient services at ThriveFocus Counseling. She helps individuals identify their needs, explore appropriate treatment options, and connect with services that support their mental health goals. Her role contributes to a coordinated, individualized approach to care throughout the treatment process.
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Areas of Focus
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Clinical Intake • Treatment Coordination • Intensive Outpatient Care

Anthony Childress M.S., LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Anthony offers a warm, collaborative approach to helping individuals navigate anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, and life transitions. Drawing from evidence-based approaches, he helps clients understand emotional patterns, strengthen coping skills, and create meaningful change.
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Areas of Focus
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Anxiety • Grief • Emotional Regulation
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Priscilla Bayola, M.S., LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Languages: English & Spanish
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Starting October 26th!
Priscilla provides compassionate, culturally responsive counseling in English and Spanish. Her experience includes individual, couples, family, and group therapy, supporting clients navigating emotional challenges, substance use recovery, and life stressors. Using cognitive behavioral and collaborative approaches, she helps individuals strengthen coping skills, build emotional resilience, and work toward meaningful personal growth.
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Areas of Focus
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Emotional Wellness • Substance Use Recovery • Family Support
Contact ThriveFocus
ThriveFocus Counseling, PLLC
Houston & Missouri City, Texas
832-736-8288
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Ready to connect?
Request counseling or submit a referral through our secure Carepatron form. Our team will review your request and contact you about next steps.
Secure Carepatron form · Submitting a request does not automatically schedule an appointment.
Owner-led. Personal. Grounded in your goals.

Meet Our Practice Support Team
Behind every connection is a team helping you find your next step.
Business Development

M.W. Mitchell
Business Development Manager
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Supports business development for ThriveFocus Counseling, PLLC.
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Referrals & Community Connections

Ashley Petitdo
Behavioral Health Referral &
Community Partnership Coordinator
Supports referral coordination, community outreach, and partnership connections.
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