Myrna Engler, LCSW-S, RPT, PLLC
Licensed Clinical Social Worker – Supervisor
Myrna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist with over 20 years of experience. She works with children, adolescents, adults, and families from diverse backgrounds, offering individual, play, and family therapy. She also provides bilingual counseling and is fluent in Spanish.
Her goal is to create a nonjudgmental, emotionally safe space where children and their parents feel understood and supported. In therapy, Myrna collaborates with clients to explore how anxiety, depression, past relationships, intergenerational patterns, and unconscious processes shape their personal, parenting, and professional lives.
Myrna is especially passionate about working with families and supporting parents in their relationships with their children. She views parenthood as an evolving process and helps caregivers navigate each stage with greater clarity and confidence. Her work emphasizes strengthening the relationship with oneself first, which then supports deeper connection within the parent-child relationship and the family as a whole.
Much of her work focuses on parents who are committed to growth, both in their relationship with their child and within themselves. When caregivers feel grounded and supported, children and families are better able to thrive. As parents learn to tune into their child’s emotional world, children feel safer, more understood, and better able to regulate their feelings.
Play therapy is one of her core specialties. For children, play becomes a natural language for expression, healing, and self-discovery. For parents, the goal is not perfection, but an ongoing process of curiosity and understanding. Through reflective parenting, a mentalization-based approach, parents learn to look beyond behavior and consider what their child may be thinking or feeling. This shift fosters deeper connection and more meaningful communication.
Her office is a warm, welcoming space filled with therapeutic tools and toys that support children’s growth through play. She has extensive experience helping children process trauma and grief in ways that feel safe, developmentally appropriate, and deeply meaningful.
Myrna’s Education and Experience
Myrna graduated from The University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work and attended The University of Houston for her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
She is currently in advanced training in Adult & Child Psychoanalytic Thinking Programs at theCenter for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, Texas. Prior to opening her private practice, she received significant experience working with sexually abused children and their non-offending families at The Children’s Assessment Center.
Myrna’s Clinical Approach
Myrna loves including parents as they navigate raising their child, teenager, and young adult through development stages. Additionally, she works with parents who are seeking ways to improve parenting skills as they experience their own personal struggles. When her clients first come to her, they notice a change in their child's attitude and behaviors and may also experience changes in their own lives. Her philosophy is that what worked in a different stage of a child’s development doesn't necessarily work now. Childhood changes may cause stressors even to the most patient of parents. She is here to help parents with this difficult job and guide them through all the stages.
Myrna’s Areas of Practice
Her areas of practice include:
Depression
Anxiety
Grief / Loss
Play Therapy
Transitional Issues
Intergenerational Trauma
Family relationship Issues
Parenting Skills
Myrna’s therapeutic modalities include psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalytic thinking psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy.
Counseling Services Provided by Myrna:
On a Personal Note
Myrna loves spending time with her family, husband and two daughters. Additionally, she enjoys exploring renovated buildings, bed and breakfasts and places off the beaten path.