Counseling

More than just feeling better. It’s about being better

The Gonino Center for Healing treats a wide range of illness utilizing both conventional and integrative medicine as well as education, and natural modalities to support the body’s own natural healing mechanisms. Obtaining optimal health is more than just feeling better, it’s about being better.

Counseling - Healing Your Body, Mind & Spirit

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Common Counseling Issues

  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Chronic Pain
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Eating Disorders
  • Grief & Loss
  • Lifecycle Adjustment Issues
  • Panic Disorders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Relationships
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Stress Management

Counseling Services: The Gonino Center for Healing offers a variety of counseling modalities:

  • Individual Therapy
  • Group Counseling
  • Seminars / Workshops

We offer evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, meditative and contemplative stress reduction (to include pre/post Op and chronic pain management).

Most of our seminars and workshops include research-approved stress reduction techniques that include:

  • gentle yoga
  • clinical meditation
  • guided imagery

The Gonino Center for Healing also offers a variety of clinical and professional mental health assessments.

Counseling Hours: by appointment only.Please call us for an appointment: (469) 402-2800.

Counseling Forms (pdf) - please print and fill out prior to first session

 

  • Meet the Counselor

    Bio - Rick PipkinRick Pipkin, Ph.D.

    Dr. Rick Pipkin is a psychotherapist who has been in practice in the Dallas- Fort Worth area for over twenty years. He has a tremendous amount of experience in working with psychiatric hospital patients and families with special needs children. His humor and direct approach to therapy has led to invitations to present at the Fifth International Congress on Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, National Labor Assistance Professionals Conference, ALPA HIMS National Conference and the International Order of Foresters. He has made numerous radio appearances in the DFW market.

    Dr. Pipkin brings with him years of management and clinical expertise in the psychiatric field. Dr. Pipkin has served as Clinical Director for several treatment centers and psychiatric hospitals in the DFW area.

    He holds degrees from Freed-Hardeman University, Western Illinois University, LaSalle University and Texas A&M University. Dr. Pipkin is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Chemical Dependency Specialist and a Substance Abuse Professional. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at a local University and has presented numerous workshops and seminars on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders.

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