Where Healing Begins, Hope Emerges, and Growth Takes Root
YOUR JOURNEY
STARTS HERE
SUPPORTING YOU ON A JOURNEY TO A BETTER TOMORROW
New River Hope Center strives to ensure that every individual and family in Southwest Virginia has access to high-quality, trauma-informed mental health care, regardless of income or circumstance.
Through compassionate, evidence-based treatment, specialized therapeutic services, community education, and financial assistance, we promote healing, strengthen families, and build healthier communities.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Compassionate, trauma-informed therapy tailored to your unique needs, helping you navigate challenges, heal, build resilience, and move forward with hope.
PLAYTHERAPY
Play therapy uses play—the natural language of childhood—to help children express feelings, process trauma and difficult experiences, develop healthy coping skills, and heal in an age-appropriate, supportive environment.
FAMILY THERAPY
Family therapy strengthens relationships, improves communication, and helps families navigate conflict, heal from challenges, and build healthier connections together.
Specialties We Work In
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Therapy for anxiety, excessive worry, panic, and stress can help you understand what’s driving your anxiety and develop effective coping skills.
Our compassionate, trauma-informed approach helps you feel more grounded, regain confidence, and move forward with greater peace. -
Therapy for depression, low mood, and emotional struggles can help you understand difficult feelings and develop healthier ways to cope.
Our compassionate, evidence-based approach supports healing, renewed hope, and meaningful chage. -
Therapy for children and teens can help with anxiety, emotions, behavior, relationships, school challenges, and difficult life experiences.
We provide age-appropriate, compassionate support that helps young people build confidence, coping skills, and resilience. -
Trauma therapy provides a safe, supportive space to process difficult experiences, reduce trauma-related symptoms, and develop healthy coping skills.
Our trauma-informed approach supports healing, resilience, and a greater sense of safety and control. -
Family therapy helps loved ones improve communication, navigate conflict, and understand patterns that may be creating distance or tension.
Together, we work toward healthier relationships, stronger connections, and lasting positive change. -
Grief therapy provides compassionate support for navigating the emotional challenges that follow the loss of someone or something meaningful.
Therapy can help you process your grief, adjust to change, and find a path forward while honoring what you have lost. -
Major life changes can bring uncertainty, stress, and difficult emotions—even when the change is positive.
Therapy can help you navigate transitions, adjust to new circumstances, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence. -
Therapy can support individuals with ADHD who struggle with organization, focus, emotional regulation, time management, and daily responsibilities.
We help develop practical strategies that build confidence, improve functioning, and make everyday life more manageable. -
Chronic stress and burnout can leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and disconnected from the things that matter most.
Therapy can help you identify sources of stress, develop healthier boundaries, and restore balance and emotional well-being. -
Difficulty managing emotions can affect relationships, work, school, and everyday life.
Therapy helps you understand emotional patterns and develop practical skills for managing intense feelings in healthier ways. -
Therapy can help children, teens, and adults understand challenging behaviors and develop healthier ways to respond to emotions, stress, and difficult situations.
Our approach focuses on the underlying needs behind behavior while building practical coping and problem-solving skills. -
Parenting can be rewarding and overwhelming, especially when children are struggling with emotions, behavior, or major life changes.
Therapy provides support, practical strategies, and guidance to help parents strengthen relationships and respond with greater confidence. -
Early relationships and life experiences can influence how we connect with others and respond to conflict, closeness, and rejection.
Therapy can help you understand these patterns, build secure connections, and develop healthier relationships. -
Academic pressure, social challenges, learning difficulties, and school changes can create significant stress for children and teens. Difficulties with friendships, social interactions, or feeling connected can affect confidence and emotional well-being.
Therapy provides a supportive space to develop coping skills, confidence, emotional regulation, and strategies for managing school-related challenges.
WE ARE DIFFERENT
Why New River Hope Center?
TAKING THE FIRST STEP TOWARD HEALING STARTS HERE.
A Safe Place for You - No Matter Your Age or Story
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Meet The Therapist
Elizabeth Houle, Ph.D., LMFT-S
Beth Houle is a therapist and the founder of New River Hope Center. She holds a doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy and brings more than a decade of experience providing mental health care and leading her own private practice in Tennessee since 2015.
A native of Wytheville, Beth is grateful to return with her family to the community she has always considered home. She founded New River Hope Center with a vision of bringing high-quality, trauma-informed mental health care to individuals and families throughout Southwest Virginia, regardless of income or circumstance.
Beth’s approach is compassionate, strengths-based, and grounded in evidence-based practices. She is passionate about helping individuals and families find healing, strengthen relationships, and move forward with hope.
Discover What’s Possible With Therapy
Find Relief
Create Space to Breathe
Therapy can help you slow down, understand what you're carrying, and develop tools to manage stress, anxiety, and overwhelming emotions.
Gain Understanding
Make Sense of Your Story
Explore patterns, experiences, and relationships that shape how you think, feel, and respond—so you can better understand yourself and what you need.
Create Change
Move Forward With Intention
Build healthier patterns, strengthen relationships, and develop the confidence and skills to create meaningful change in your life.
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Your Journey To Healing Starts Here
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