Skills-based therapy for anxiety, panic, OCD and depression, at our Plano (Mapleshade) office or online.
Worry that will not let up, panic that makes you avoid places, intrusive thoughts, or a low mood that drains the color out of everything: anxiety and depression affect how you sleep, work, parent and connect with others. With the right skills and support, most people feel real relief.
Our Mapleshade office in south Plano works with teens and adults, and children with their parents, from Plano, Richardson, Addison, Carrollton and Far North Dallas, in person or online.
Melissa Woods specializes in depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder and is certified in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for adults and children and trained in CBT for insomnia. Alisha Garcia is trained in CBT and MBCT, and Maggie Smith has Level 3 DBT training. All three work with mood disorders, panic and phobias.
Assistant Director · LPC-S, LPA
Melissa has a knack for getting right to the heart of the matter. A leader among GearingUP's clinicians, she brings creativity and care to her work, especially with children, teens and families facing trauma.
Clinical Supervisor · LPC
Alisha brings a soothing presence and a fresh perspective to every session. She works to make therapy feel warm and nurturing while still helping clients make real, lasting progress.
Clinical Therapist · LPC
Warm and poised, Maggie has spent much of her career with kids and teens, helping them build coping skills and helping their parents connect with them more effectively.
After an intake with a senior clinician, you are matched with a therapist and a clear plan. When it helps, an assessment clarifies what is driving your symptoms so treatment targets the right thing.
Most treatment draws on CBT, which helps you test anxious and hopeless thinking and gradually face what you have been avoiding, DBT skills for intense emotions, and mindfulness-based therapy, including MBCT, which is designed to help prevent depression from coming back.
Learn more about anxiety therapy and depression therapy at GearingUP.
Our Mapleshade office is on Mapleshade Lane in south Plano, close to Richardson and Far North Dallas. Sessions are also available online.
Clients come to this office from
Plano, Richardson, Addison, Carrollton, Far North Dallas
Yes. Our Mapleshade clinicians work with obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks and phobias as well as general anxiety and depression. Learn about OCD therapy and panic attack treatment.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy combines mindfulness practice with CBT skills. It was developed to help people who have had depression notice early warning signs and keep low moods from spiraling.
Yes. You can meet in person at our Plano (Mapleshade) office or online by secure video from home, and you can switch between the two whenever it suits you. Many clients mix both, for example meeting in person at first and online during busy weeks.
Yes. GearingUP is in-network with most major insurance plans, including Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Optum and Baylor Scott & White, and the same plans apply at our Plano (Mapleshade) office. No outside referral is needed, and sliding scale fees are available based on income. Our team checks your benefits and explains your coverage before your first session. See insurance and rates.
The DBT program at Gearing up is life transforming!! My Therapyst Dr Nathalie is a rockstar., Subject matter expert, practical and in depth. She has radically guided me in changing my life I will forever be grateful to her and the whole DBT program at Gearing up!! I highly reccomed both.
Blanca is so awesome! Before starting our skills she always asks how my week has been and catches up from the last time we spoke instead of jumping in the lesson right away.
Antonette is amazing! She is engaging and thorough in her skills sessions. Our individual sessions are so helpful as well. She validates my feelings and helps me to understand them even when I can’t always articulate them clearly!
I visited with Nathalie Raper for DBT for over a year and I thought she did a tremendous job. I felt very comfortable talking to her, hearing hard truths and working with her to improve in my parenting approach. I truly appreciate her.
Alisha is a great DBT therapist and I’m thrilled to have been working with her. She is extremely knowledgeable, insightful, and able to quickly assess while providing practical solutions/approaches. It’s also great to see the team approach with the other clinicians and support staff at Gearing Up. Highly recommend!
I love Gearing Up and often recommend this type of DBT therapy. Alishia is a great therapist, and has made a huge impact on my life. I hope all therapist are like her. Also, The work I put in with the group therapy was so important to my learning and healing. I now have life long skills to use in my daily life.
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