Meet Dr. Marion Zahn, Founder of Wilcrest Counseling Services, PLLC

Dr. Zahn established Wilcrest Counseling Services, PLLC to help serve the mental health needs of adults in the greater Houston area. Now that her practice is exclusively online, she feels privileged to be able to help individuals across Texas, PSYPACT States, and abroad, live the lives they want.

Dr. Zahn holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Texas A&M University, where she has served as Visiting Assistant Professor. She has over 20 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings, including private practice, multidisciplinary healthcare clinics, universities, and community mental health centers.

Dr. Zahn completed her internship at Appalachian State University Counseling Center, with an emphasis in mind-body wellness and mindfulness-based approaches to psychotherapy for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and past trauma. She has received additional training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, biofeedback, neurofeedback, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for PTSD, attachment in psychotherapy, multicultural counseling, and yoga for depression and anxiety.

Therapeutic Approach

Trained under the scientist-practitioner model, Dr. Zahn uses mindfulness/mind-body, emotion-focused, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), and cognitive-behavioral (CBT) approaches as primary guides. With additional training and experience in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Dr. Zahn also follows this approach with clients experiencing difficulties related to past trauma(s). She believes that therapy is a process that, for many people and under certain conditions, can be a transformative one. To help her clients activate their natural human tendencies toward growth, she focuses on building and maintaining a strong therapeutic relationship, where her clients can feel free to be with and explore their experiences with a sense of curiosity, compassion, openness, and acceptance.

 In this exploratory process, Dr. Zahn can help you:

• Work toward experiencing greater fulfillment in your life and relationships with others

• Cultivate an increased sense of attunement with yourself and being with your present experiences

• Develop your emotional intelligence and enhance your ability to tolerate and manage negative feelings and experiences

• Make space for greater feelings of connectedness with others

• Bring awareness to your patterns of relating with yourself and others, examine them, and take action toward consciously changing parts of the patterns that are not working

Professional Organizations

• Member, American Psychological Association (APA)

• Member, Texas Psychological Association (TPA)

• Member, Houston Psychological Association (HPA)

• Past President, Biofeedback Society of Texas (BST)