HOUSTON THERAPY

Hello! My name is Elizabeth Seabolt-Esparza. I am therapist here at Houston Therapy. My passion is working with the LGBTQ community and my motivation for this is very personal. A few months ago I was invited to be on a podcast to share my story of how my father's journey as a gay man coming out later in life, and his struggles with internalized homophobia and death at a young age, played a major role in my decision to become a therapist and specialize in working with the LGBT

Addiction is a chronic and relapsing psychiatric disorder affecting a large number of people worldwide. Ample evidence from basic and clinical neuroscience has demonstrated that addiction is a brain disease marked by compulsive substance use despite a host of negative consequences. Neuroscience has discovered several neural circuits underlying the behavioral expression of tolerance, craving, and withdrawal, which are critical constructs to understanding vulnerability to relap

This post is a heavily edited version of a paper I wrote in school. I think these concepts are helpful for many people, so I hope I was...