Counseling in Lake Charles, LA for Individuals and Couples

Lake Charles is home, but that doesn't mean life always feels settled. You may be dealing with anxiety, relationship problems, past trauma, major life changes, or something that has simply become too difficult to manage on your own.

Woods Counseling Services provides individual and couples counseling in Lake Charles for adults who want a place to slow things down, understand what's happening, and figure out what comes next.

Our counselors work with a wide range of concerns, while also offering specialized experience in areas such as relationship problems, trauma, betrayal, compulsive sexual behavior, pornography concerns, and Christian counseling.

Whether you're looking for help with a specific problem or you're not quite sure where to start, we'll help you determine what kind of counseling may be the best fit.

Counseling Services in Lake Charles

Woods Counseling Services offers individual and couples counseling for a range of concerns, with additional specialization in trauma, relationships, sexual behavior concerns, and betrayal.

Sometimes you know something isn't right, but you're not sure exactly what needs to change. You may be dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, relationship problems, difficult experiences from the past, or simply feeling stuck in patterns you can't seem to break on your own.
Individual counseling gives you a dedicated space to slow things down and better understand what you're dealing with. We'll look at the thoughts, emotions, experiences, and patterns that may be contributing to what you're feeling and work toward practical changes that fit your goals.
Depending on your needs, counseling may include approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), person-centered therapy, or trauma-focused work. The goal is not just to talk about what's wrong, but to help you understand yourself better and make meaningful progress in your everyday life.
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Relationships can become difficult when communication breaks down, the same arguments keep happening, or you begin to feel more like roommates than partners. For some couples, the problem is emotional distance. For others, trust has been damaged by infidelity, pornography, secrecy, or other hurts that have never fully been resolved.
Couples counseling gives you a place to slow those patterns down and understand what is happening between you. We can work on communication, conflict resolution, rebuilding trust, emotional and sexual intimacy, and the patterns that keep pulling you back into the same problems.
Some couples come in hoping to strengthen their relationship. Others are unsure whether they want to stay together. Counseling can help you have more productive conversations, better understand each other's experiences, and gain greater clarity about what you want the relationship to look like moving forward.
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When pornography or sexual behavior becomes difficult to control, the impact can reach far beyond the behavior itself. You may find yourself making promises to stop, hiding what you're doing, feeling ashamed afterward, or watching the behavior begin to affect your marriage, values, work, or everyday life.
Brent Woods is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) and works with men struggling with pornography concerns, compulsive sexual behavior, secrecy, and repeated patterns they have been unable to change on their own.
Treatment isn't about shaming you or simply telling you to try harder. It's about understanding the pattern, identifying triggers and vulnerabilities, developing healthier ways of responding, and building a recovery plan you can actually maintain. When relationships have been affected, treatment can also address honesty, accountability, and repairing the damage that has occurred.
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Discovering infidelity, hidden pornography use, sexual deception, or a secret sexual life can change the way you see your relationship almost overnight. You may find yourself replaying conversations, searching for answers, checking for more information, questioning your own judgment, or wondering whether anything you believed about the relationship was real.
Those reactions can be overwhelming, especially when you're also trying to decide what the discovery means for your relationship and your future.
Betrayal trauma counseling gives you a place to process what happened without being pressured to immediately forgive, reconcile, separate, or make major decisions before you're ready. The focus is on helping you regain stability, understand your reactions, establish appropriate boundaries, and begin deciding what you need moving forward.
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Sometimes an experience is over, but you continue reacting to reminders as though part of you is still back in what happened. You may experience intrusive memories, strong emotional reactions, avoidance, anxiety, feeling constantly on edge, or reminders that bring the experience right back to the surface.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured form of therapy used to help people work through distressing experiences and memories that continue to affect them in the present.
During EMDR, you'll work with specific memories, beliefs, emotions, and reactions connected to what happened. The goal isn't to erase the memory or make you forget it. It's to help you process the experience so it carries less emotional weight and has less influence over how you feel and respond today.
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Finding the right counselor isn't just about finding someone nearby. You want someone you feel comfortable talking to, who understands what you're dealing with, and who has the experience to help you figure out what comes next.

Woods Counseling Services provides counseling in Lake Charles for individuals and couples dealing with anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, life transitions, and other concerns that can make life feel overwhelming. We also offer specialized counseling for sex and pornography addiction, betrayal trauma, relationship repair, therapeutic disclosure, and EMDR therapy.

Brent Woods, MA, LPC-S, CSAT, specializes in sex addiction, betrayal-related concerns, and relationship work. His background allows him to work with individuals and couples facing issues involving compulsive sexual behavior, pornography, infidelity, secrecy, broken trust, and the impact those experiences can have on a relationship.

Royce Charles, MA, PLPC, provides individual counseling for concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions. Having two counselors at the practice gives clients another option when looking for the right fit, approach, and availability.

Based in Lake Charles, we work with clients throughout Southwest Louisiana, including Sulphur, Westlake, Moss Bluff, and surrounding communities. You don't have to have everything figured out before reaching out. Counseling can help you better understand what you're facing, identify what needs attention, and determine the next steps that make sense for you.

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What Clients Are Saying

Brent and his therapy sessions have saved my marriage. I cannot recommend him enough. His personal experience allows him to relate on a level not most therapists can achieve. He is so easygoing, you feel comfortable from day one.
After denying the fact that a therapist would help with my anxiety and panic attacks, i decided to go ahead and try it out. Luckily i chose the right one for me on the first try! i highly recommend Brent, not only is he very easy to talk to, he never forgets a detail about past conversations. Very clean and comfortable atmosphere, and i’m learning things every time i have an appointment with him. he has a client for life with me!
The experience with seeing Brent has changed my perspective of my present and future. I have grown as a person and it has helped restored our marriage. He gives honest, unbiased feedback and his Christian values are something we wouldn't have recieved anywhere else. I would recommend his services to anyone seeking counsel.