Thais Sacchet, M.S., LPC- Associate
Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate
Understanding Yourself, Creating Meaningful Change
Hi, I’m Thais. I believe therapy should be a place where you can slow down, feel understood, and become curious about yourself without judgment.
Many people come to therapy wondering, “What is wrong with me?” I tend to start with a different question: “What has shaped you?”
Our relationships, experiences, culture, family, biology, environments, and the ways we have learned to cope all influence who we become. Often, the thoughts, emotions, or patterns we struggle with developed for very understandable reasons. Therapy gives us a chance to understand those patterns with compassion and decide whether they are still helping you build the life and relationships you want.
My style is warm, thoughtful, collaborative, and curious. You do not need to arrive with everything figured out. You can bring the complicated parts, the uncertainty, the conflicting feelings, and even the things that are difficult to put into words.
Together, we can work toward greater understanding, flexibility, connection, and meaningful change.
Adults, Life Transitions & Identity
Sometimes life changes gradually, and sometimes everything seems to shift at once.
A move, marriage, divorce, new baby, career change, loss, or change in identity can leave you wondering where you fit within the life you have created. Even positive transitions can bring anxiety, grief, uncertainty, or a sense that you no longer recognize yourself.
I especially enjoy working with adults who are navigating questions around identity, belonging, relationships, culture, career, and what they want the next chapter of their lives to look like.
I work with clients experiencing:
Anxiety, stress, and perfectionism
Major life transitions
Immigration and cultural adjustment
Identity and belonging
Marriage, separation, and divorce
Pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and the transition to parenthood
Parenting, relationships, and changing family roles
Career changes and professional reinvention
Grief and loss
Questions about values, purpose, and meaning
Our identities are shaped by many things, including culture, language, religion, relationships, family expectations, gender roles, professional environments, and community. Therapy can provide space to explore which parts of those expectations still fit and which ones you may be ready to redefine.
Couples & Relationship Therapy
Relationships can bring some of the greatest connection and meaning in our lives, but they can also be where we experience our deepest hurt.
I work with couples who want to feel closer, communicate differently, and understand the patterns that keep pulling them into the same conflicts.
For couples who want to remain together, our work may focus on rebuilding emotional safety, strengthening communication, changing patterns of conflict, repairing hurt, or rediscovering affection, intimacy, friendship, and connection.
I also work with couples who are not sure whether they want to stay together. You do not always need to enter therapy already knowing the answer. Counseling can provide space to understand what has happened, clarify what each person wants, and explore whether there is a meaningful path toward rebuilding the relationship.
When separation or divorce is already occurring, therapy can also help couples move through that transition with greater care and less harm. This can be especially important when children, family relationships, or shared responsibilities mean you will remain connected in one another’s lives.
My couples work is informed by Gottman Method Couples Therapy, attachment informed and emotion focused approaches, and family systems perspectives.
Professionals, Leaders & High Achievers
Success does not always protect us from anxiety, burnout, self doubt, or feeling stuck.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than two decades working in business and leadership. I understand the responsibility, pressure, interpersonal dynamics, decision making, and competing demands that can come with professional life.
I enjoy working with executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, and high achievers who may appear highly capable on the outside while privately struggling with stress, perfectionism, burnout, relationship strain, difficult career decisions, or questions about what comes next.
Work can become deeply connected to identity and self worth. Therapy can create room to step outside of constant performance and consider not only what you want to accomplish, but what kind of life you actually want to build.
My Approach to Therapy
There is no single therapy model that explains every person.
My approach is evidence based, relational, culturally responsive, and individualized to the person sitting in front of me. Rather than viewing someone as a diagnosis or collection of symptoms, I want to understand what is happening within the larger context of their life, relationships, history, culture, and environment.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, and contextual behavioral science are important foundations of my work. Depending on your needs and goals, I may also integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT skills, attachment informed and emotion focused approaches, family systems, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and trauma informed care.
I believe effective therapy can be both compassionate and grounded in science. I am committed to continuing to learn from advances in psychotherapy, behavioral science, and neuroscience while never losing sight of the individual person and the relationship we build together.
My goal is to help you better understand yourself, respond to difficult thoughts and emotions with greater flexibility, reconnect with what genuinely matters to you, and create changes that feel meaningful and sustainable.
A Bit About Me
I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and lived in different countries and cultures before eventually making Houston home.
My own life has included transitions across cultures, languages, careers, relationships, and stages of life. Before entering the counseling profession, I earned a law degree and spent more than twenty years in business and leadership. Those experiences have shaped the way I understand identity and change. I know that none of us can be fully described by one role, title, nationality, career, relationship, or chapter of our lives.
I am naturally curious and a lifelong learner, and that curiosity is a big part of what drew me to counseling. I genuinely enjoy understanding people, relationships, culture, and the many experiences that shape who we become.
I provide counseling in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Outside the Office
Outside of the therapy room, I love traveling, spending time with family and friends, discovering great restaurants, and exploring everything Houston has to offer.
I am always learning something new and can easily get pulled into a conversation about psychology, neuroscience, culture, relationships, or human behavior. I also love a good deep conversation, even when I am technically off the clock.
Having lived in different places and experienced several professional and personal chapters myself, I really value new experiences, connection, curiosity, and continuing to grow throughout life.
Clinical Focus
Anxiety, stress, and perfectionism
Life transitions and adjustment
Identity, belonging, and cultural adjustment
Couples and relationship concerns
Intimacy and connection
Relationship uncertainty and decision making
Separation and divorce
Pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and transition to parenthood
Career transitions
Professional stress and burnout
Leadership and high achiever concerns
Grief, loss, values, and meaning
Education & Professional Training
Thais Sacchet earned her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of St. Thomas in Houston and previously earned a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her clinical experience includes multidisciplinary psychiatry and private practice settings, where she has worked with clients across different stages of life and with a wide range of relational and mental health concerns.
She has completed Levels 1 and 2 of Gottman Method Couples Therapy training.
Her clinical training and experience include:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
DBT skills
Attachment informed approaches
Emotion focused perspectives
Family systems
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Trauma informed care
Thais Sacchet, M.S.,LPC-Associate (pending)
LPC License # Pending
$175 Individual Appointment
$185 Couples Therapy