Psychological care and services for children, teens and young adults
When your child experiences mental or behavioral health symptoms, it can be stressful for the whole family. At Texas Children’s Hospital, our Psychology team understands the challenges that you and your child are facing. We provide evidence based consultation, assessment, and intervention, tailored to your child’s unique needs, to build the skills your child needs for their health and well-being.
Experienced psychologists and behavioral health clinicians specializing in pediatric care
Our team of licensed psychologists, psychology trainees, and behavioral health clinicians has years of advanced training to specialize in assessment of and intervention for behavioral and mental health concerns. We offer effective, evidence-based therapies tailored to the needs of your child and family, with special expertise in psychological care for children and teens who have complex physical health conditions and injuries, anxiety and OCD, depression, disruptive behavior and attention problems, acute psychological emergencies, trauma, adjustment, difficulties in family functioning and communication, and other presenting concerns.
Psychology programs and services
Our pediatric neuropsychologists, psychologists and behavioral health clinicians work with children, teens, young adults and their families in our outpatient clinics, primary care, our mobile behavioral health unit, and in the inpatient hospital setting at Texas Children’s (across campuses). Learn more about our programs, services, and locations of care. In consultation with providers, virtual services may also be available if appropriate.
Measurement Based Care
All of our programs are evidence based and use parent, child/adolescent, and teacher questionnaires as appropriate to measure symptoms prior to treatment beginning and progress as treatment continues. These measures are usually sent through MyChart messages or completed at visits.
Psychology patient resources
We’ve put together some information about behavioral health resources. See our patient resources.
Our psychologists and their research teams participate in research to advance the care and treatment of children of all ages who are affected by psychological symptoms and conditions. Through our pediatric psychology research efforts, we work to bring scientific discoveries to children, teens and young adults at Texas Children’s Hospital and around the world.
Psychology: How to become a patient
Referring Providers: Please use this link to refer a patient
If your child or teen could benefit from our psychology services, you can self-refer them or have their primary care provider send a referral. Here’s how:
Referral process: Please complete the new patient referral paperwork for psychology referrals. You can either use the online form or download a paper referral form. If you choose the paper referral form, please fax the completed form and required documents to 832-825-9315.
Required documents: When you send us your paperwork, please include copies of the following documents, as applicable:
Any legal paperwork about who can consent for consultation and treatment including:
Divorce decree, if the parents of the child are legally divorced
Guardianship paperwork or Temporary Orders of Custody, if the person seeking the evaluation and/or completing the paperwork is not the parent of the child
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) evaluation, school district evaluation(s), the most recent Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and any private evaluation(s) performed by another provider in the community, such as a psychiatrist, neurologist, developmental pediatrician or psychologist
We understand that this is a lot of information for you to send us. Please know that this information helps us better serve your child and your family. Providing this information will help the rest of the process go smoothly. If you have questions, call 832-822-1900.
