Mina O’Connell, MA, MS, LMFT

Life is challenging, and hope is found in trusting God with our struggles, relationships, and growth, as we learn how to manage these wisely.

I hope to assist you and your family in managing your most important concerns. Through experience and knowledge gained in a Christian Counseling center, a children’s home, a busy managed care organization, and in two eating disorder units as the family therapist for individuals and families, I offer hope and help for your situation. I have developed private practices in Cambridge, England, upscale Denver, small town Nebraska, and now in growing San Antonio. Primary clients are individuals, couples, and families, seeking a Christian perspective, are often military families, and are many times raising children through all of the developmental stages. Eating disorder clients work hard toward healing here. Children grow with sandtray and art.

I was raised Catholic, and then Jesus saved me through understanding the gospel and being discipled in Campus Crusade for Christ. Dallas Theological Seminary taught me the Bible through the MABS, then study with Drs. Minirth and Meyer, Christian psychiatrists, directed me to Texas Woman’s University for the MS in Marriage and Family Therapy. God freed me from an eating disorder, so I am happy to help others heal from restricting, compulsive overeating, excessive exercise and fasting, and bulimia. I pray over my office each day and ask the Lord to bring those He wants to love and heal through me!

I have received training in the research-based Gottman approach for improving marriages by helping clients become better friends, manage conflict calmly, and support each others’ hopes and dreams. The Gottman Institute has engaged in research for over 30 years to identify factors that foster healthy, loving relationships. I am approved as a member clinician to offer the Gottman Relationship Checkup. I have also been trained in the Swedish Erica Method of Sand tray Assessment and Treatment.