Riley Psychological Services

Dr. Chelsea R. MacCaughelty, PhD, LCSW

In Person In Houston and Online Throughout Texas

Integrative Therapy and EMDR for High-Capacity Adults

Step out of overdrive, untangle the stress beneath the surface, and reconnect with what matters most.

Therapy services and intensives for high-achieving individuals, healing and helping professionals, caregivers, and suicide loss survivors.

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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

From the outside, you may look capable and composed — but inside, you’re tired, overwhelmed, disconnected, or carrying grief that few can see.

I offer integrative, holistic therapy that weaves together insight-oriented talk therapy, EMDR, somatic-focused, and behavioral approaches.

Together, we’ll uncover the patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that keep you feeling stuck, performing, or weighed down — and begin shifting them where they first took shape.

This is a space to reconnect with your whole self — mind, body, and spirit — so you can move forward feeling more grounded, relieved, connected, and whole.

Alongside weekly therapy, I also offer Therapy Intensives — extended, customized sessions designed for deeper work in a shorter period of time. These sessions are ideal if you’re ready to address a specific issue quickly, accelerate your progress, or need an alternative to ongoing weekly sessions. For many, intensives are the clearest path to finally shifting the patterns and beliefs keeping you stuck.

Who I Work With:

High-Achieving Individuals – Support for professionals and leaders navigating stress, perfectionism, performance, and burnout.

Healing & Helping Professionals – A restorative space for therapists, coaches, doctors, nurses, midwives, and healers. A space for space holders.

Caregivers & Parents – Helping you reconnect with your own needs while caring for others.

Suicide Loss Survivors – Compassionate support for complex grief and the path to healing.

The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves

- Pema Chödrön

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park

Services

Office Policies + Procedures

Lake Louise, Banff National Park

My therapy philosophy:

I am an integrative therapist and social worker. I believe healing and recovery take place in the context of relationships, both with ourselves and others. I seek to help my clients understand how past experiences have shaped their approach to their life, values, and interpersonal relationships. I enjoy helping clients increase their self-awareness as well as identify and understand ways in which their current behaviors and patterns have served both protective functions and may hinder wellness and authentic living. I use an integrated approach to therapy, grounded in psychodynamic theory, and incorporate an attachment, emotion-focused, somatic-oriented, and trauma-informed lens in my work. Holding space for the therapeutic relationship we co-create is essential to my work, and I focus on facilitating and creating space for my clients to access their own inner wisdom. I seek to empower movement toward lasting, meaningful change and holistic wellness and healing, not simply symptom reduction.

I offer integrative individual psychotherapy and therapy intensives to high-achieving individuals/professionals, healing and helping professionals, parents and caregivers and suicide loss survivors. Curiosity, connection, and compassion are central tenants to my work. I integrate humanistic and behavioral modalities in my work and believe, above all, we are human first. I consider it a privilege to enter deep spaces and form meaningful therapeutic relationships with my clients.

I believe therapy happens at your own pace and that people exist outside of diagnostic labels. There’s a place for kindness, humor, compassion, authenticity, love, courage, and curiosity in the therapeutic process and relationship. Therapy involves your active participation. I am committed to meeting you where you are and being with you on your journey. Everyone is welcome.

My areas of expertise include relationship problems, career/work stressors, anxiety and mood disorders, trauma, complicated grief and loss, family dynamics, substance use, neurodivergence, and eating disorders. In addition, I have a particular interest in working with suicide loss survivors (i.e., those who have lost a loved one or connection to suicide). As a suicide loss survivor myself, I can relate to the impact of suicide loss and the need for a safe space for understanding and coping with this complicated and painful experience. I am EMDR-trained and am advanced trained in Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT). I offer emotion coaching and Caregiver Workshops for caregivers supporting loved ones with eating disorders and various other mental health concerns. I also have advanced training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), psychodynamic psychotherapy, and trauma.

“Like in nature, growth doesn’t happen in a straight line, but in cycles that feel like we are going backwards half the time.” - Dr. Rosalind Watts

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