Welcome to the Thumos.Life blog! I am a therapist in Texas looking to help people. This is a place for discussing all the ways to manage and navigate our mental health needs!

Greetings! My name is Jared Broussard, and I am a licensed professional counselor based out of the Houston, TX area, but I meet with clients virtually all over the great state of Texas. When I'm not working as a therapist, I love to spend time with my family, as well as engage in all manner of nerdy pursuits when I get the chance to do so. I have loved Marvel Comics, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Lego (just to name a few) ever since I was a young child.

I have been a therapist since 2013, and in that time I have worked at almost every level of care that you can think of. I have provided mental health services at inpatient hospitals, intensive outpatient programs, residential treatment programs, community integration programs, as well as through private practice. This expansive and varied experience has given me the opportunity to work with individuals from all walks of life, as well as get to see all the different ways that people can approach their mental health treatment.

Through my work as a therapist, as well as through my writings here on this blog, my hope is to help individuals identify their values and overarching sense of self, as well as help them to make sense of and navigate any obstacles that come up along the way.

My hope with writing posts for the blog section of my website are to accomplish a handful of goals, which include:

• Spread awareness and decrease stigma about mental health

• Sharpen and develop my skills at communicating about the mental health topics I have been helping people with for the better part of a decade

• As well as talk about all of the mental health themes, morals, and lessons that are a part of the popular media that I'm a huge fan of in my life.

I'm sure there will be more to come in the future, but that is all I have for now at the moment. Thanks for joining me on this journey together as I embark on my full time private practice adventure! Please feel free to let me know if there are questions, topics, or concerns you have related to mental health (or even just navigating life in general) that you would hope for me to address and I will definitely do my best to help you out! I can be reached by email at jared@thumos.life!

I hope you have a great day!