What We Treat
You meet the deadlines, answer the messages, and hold everyone else together. Inside, your mind rarely switches off. That is high-functioning anxiety, and it is exhausting.
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High-functioning anxiety is not a formal diagnosis. It is a way of describing anxiety that hides behind competence. People around you may see someone organized, reliable, and driven, while you feel restless, tense, and afraid of dropping a single ball.
Common signs include overthinking conversations after they happen, difficulty resting without guilt, over-preparing, people-pleasing, trouble sleeping because your mind is running through tomorrow, and a sense that your success depends on never letting up.
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Because life still looks like it is working, high-functioning anxiety often goes unaddressed for years. It can be praised as work ethic. Many people only reach out when the cost shows up in their body, their sleep, their relationships, or a burnout they did not see coming.
Anxiety is Guiding Hope's primary specialty, and this particular form of it is one our team sees often, especially in professional women and high-achieving students and young adults.
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Therapy can help you notice the thought patterns driving the pressure, separate genuine responsibility from fear, and practice setting limits without feeling like you are failing.
Our clinicians draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness-based work, and DBT skills, adapted to your life rather than applied as a script. The goal is not to make you care less. It is to let you care without it running you.
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Mallori Thompson, LPC-Associate, supports women through infertility, pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and the move into motherhood, and has a particular passion for high-achieving African American women carrying high-functioning anxiety and depression.
Ashley Gutierrez, LPC-Associate, works with teens, young adults, adults, and couples, specializes in LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent clients, uses DBT and narrative therapy, is fluent in American Sign Language, and offers daytime, evening, and weekend telehealth.
Dr. Ashley Carroll-Brown, the psychologist who founded Guiding Hope, focuses on anxiety, trauma, and the challenges of pregnancy and postpartum life. She is certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is pursuing certification in perinatal mental health.
Meet the Team
AdultsSupport for the pressure beneath achievement and the transitions of motherhood.
Pregnancy & Postpartum · High Functioning Anxiety · High-Achieving African American Women · Grief & Loss · Trauma · Depression
Practicing under the supervision of Dr. Desiree L. Stephens, LPC-S.
Teens & AdultsAffirming, accessible therapy in spoken English and fluent ASL.
LGBTQIA+ · Neurodivergent · Anxiety · ASL · Deaf & Hard of Hearing · Trauma · Depression · Relationships
Daytime, evening, and weekend availability
Practicing under the supervision of Dr. Bernadette H. Solórzano, PsyD, LPC-S.
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Compassionate care for trauma, pregnancy, postpartum, and meaningful change.
Anxiety · Pregnancy & Postpartum · Trauma · Depression
Common Questions
Yes. Every session at Guiding Hope is held by secure video, and all of our clinicians are licensed in Texas, so you can meet from anywhere in the state.
Guiding Hope is in network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and UnitedHealthcare. Coverage varies by plan, and superbills are available for out-of-network reimbursement.
You share a little about what is bringing you in, ask any practical questions, and talk through which clinician may fit. It is a conversation, not a commitment.
Please call 911 if you are in immediate danger, or call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Guiding Hope offers scheduled outpatient therapy and is not an emergency service.
A free consultation can help you ask questions, share what you are looking for, and consider whether one of our clinicians feels like a fit.
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