The Driving Philosophy of Friendswood Christian Counseling
Your Story Matters. Your Healing Matters. Your Future Matters.
At Friendswood Christian Counseling, we believe counseling is about more than managing symptoms or overcoming difficult circumstances. It is about understanding your story, discovering the strength to heal, restoring meaningful relationships, and moving toward a healthier, more fulfilling life.
Serving Friendswood, League City, Pearland, Clear Lake, and the surrounding Bay Area of Texas, our counseling practice provides compassionate, trauma-informed therapy for individuals, couples, children, teens, and families. We recognize that emotional struggles rarely exist in isolation. Anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and relationship difficulties are often connected to the experiences that have shaped our lives. Our approach to mental health counseling focuses on understanding the whole person—not simply treating a diagnosis.
Understanding Your Story. Every journey toward healing begins with being heard and understood. Whether you are navigating unresolved trauma, grieving a significant loss, struggling with anxiety or depression, or facing a major life transition, we provide a supportive environment where your experiences are treated with compassion and respect. We believe understanding where you have been can help you discover where you want to go.
Finding Freedom. Sometimes the ways we have learned to cope with emotional pain become struggles of their own. Our specialized addiction counseling services address sexual addiction, compulsive behaviors, chemical dependency, and the underlying emotional experiences that can contribute to these patterns. Through evidence-based treatment and trauma-informed care, we help clients develop healthier coping strategies, rebuild personal integrity, and move toward lasting recovery.
Healing Relationships. Our relationships are among the most meaningful parts of our lives, but they can also become places of profound hurt. Through couples counseling, marriage therapy, family counseling, and specialized support for betrayal trauma, we help individuals and families navigate conflict, rebuild trust, strengthen communication, and restore emotional connection. Whether you are working toward reconciliation, establishing healthier boundaries, or finding clarity about the future, we believe relationships deserve thoughtful, compassionate care.
Growing Forward. Healing is not simply about leaving pain behind. It is also about discovering new ways to live. Our clinicians incorporate therapeutic approaches such as EMDR therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and somatic trauma interventions to help clients develop emotional resilience, greater self-awareness, and meaningful change. For those who desire it, Christian counseling and faith-based perspectives can be thoughtfully integrated into treatment, while clients of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcomed and respected.
At Friendswood Christian Counseling, our mission is to help people move beyond surviving and begin building lives characterized by greater freedom, connection, resilience, and hope. With in-person counseling in Friendswood and secure online therapy throughout Texas, we are committed to making compassionate, individualized mental health care accessible to the communities we serve.
Your past is part of your story, but it does not have to define your future. Wherever you are in your journey, healing can begin here.
"People are often coping with pain they didn't choose."
Healing begins when we see the whole person, not just the symptoms. That's the goal our trained and certified team of clinicians and helpers. We are ready for the journey with you.
The Team
Hannah Crawford, LPC-Associate
Teens, adults, life transitions, anxiety, trauma, depression, CBT, narrative therapy
Najla Crawford, LPC
Teens, adults, life transitions, women, grief, trauma
Lara Elliott, CLC
Women, couples, trauma, betrayal trauma, life transitions
Zachary Kirk, LPC-Associate
Kids, teens, families, play therapy, anxiety, anger, attachment, depression
Dr. Benjamin Ramon, LPC, LMFT, CSAT, CMAT-LA, CTGM
adults, couples, sex addiction, betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, dbt, ACT, EMDR
Sarah Whitton, student intern
Kids, teens, trauma, crisis
Coming Soon
We are actively adding to our great team
Coming Soon
We are actively adding to our great team
What do we treat?
Managing Depression & Anxiety
We are committed to walking with living our devotion to Jesus to bring rest to the weary through warm, empathetic, unconditional counseling.
Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28
Trauma and PTSD
This world is full of trauma and no one goes unscathed. We are committed to working with you as Jesus heals your wounds.
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.- 1 Peter 5:10
Addiction Recovery
We believe the promise of Jesus and seek to give practical ways to handle addiction.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to liberate the oppressed, - Luke 4:18
Relationship Difficulties
We are equipped with proven and effective trainings to help you navigate your relationship difficulties including marriage, dating, family, betrayal.
But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ - Jeremiah 30:17
Grief
We are committed to helping you as your grieve your loss- a loved one, a career, a marriage.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. - Romans 15:13
Life Transitions
Did you recently lose a job? Are you trying to adjust to living in an empty nest? Are considering moving or confronting someone you have not before? Were you divorced? Been thinking about deconstructing religion? We can help you think through those life changing events.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."- Proverbs 3:5-6