Koyt Kifer

LPC

• Texas, Licensed Professional Counselor, 77320

I have over 10 years of experience as a licensed mental health therapist. I have worked with couples, families, veterans, youth, adolescence, adults, and the LGBT community in virtual, residential, and outpatient environments. Throughout my counseling career I have worked with the previously mentioned demographics struggling with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, attention deficit disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress disorder, relationship issues, personality disorders, trauma, grief, excessive stress and substance abuse. I grew up outside of Dallas and graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelors’ degree in Art with an emphasis in oil painting. I spent the next decade living and working in various mountainous towns as a PSIA certified ski instructor during the winters and working with horses during the summers as a trail guide, director of several youth camp equine programs, and a farrier. I am licensed as an equine therapy horse specialist and mental health professional through EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) and worked on an equine therapy team while earning a masters’ degree from Hardin Simmons University in Counseling and Human Development. I rescued a dog that I utilize in the therapy process during appropriate sessions. His name is “HEY”. I utilize a wide range of therapy modalities and believe that the therapeutic process is organic and needs to be flexible. I believe in a Humanistic approach that emphasizes human uniqueness, positive qualities, and individual potential.