Private Psychotherapy for Waco’s High Performers
Waco carries more professional and family weight than its size suggests. A growing entrepreneurial community centered around Baylor University and the growth that has followed. Healthcare and legal professionals operating in a mid-sized market where reputation is more visible and professional exposure is more concentrated than in a major metro. Agriculture and land-holding families with multigenerational wealth and the pressures that come with it. A veteran and military community with its own clinical needs.
The people who carry significant professional and family responsibility in Waco’s market face the same pressures as their counterparts in Houston and Dallas — with fewer options for discreet clinical support. There are fewer practices, more visibility, and more risk that seeking help through conventional channels means someone in their professional network knows about it.
Kyden Counseling is a telehealth practice. That means location doesn’t reduce access, and discretion is built into the format from the beginning. Private, cash-pay psychotherapy with no insurance, no waiting room, no record unless you direct it.
Who Calls From Waco
Entrepreneurs and business owners in Waco’s growing market who are managing high stakes and a team that can’t know how heavy it is. Attorneys and physicians operating in a professional community where reputation is the core asset. Agricultural and land-holding families managing multigenerational wealth and the dynamics that come with succession, transitions, and family members in different roles. Veterans and former military in central Texas who need a clinician who understands service from the inside.
What Brings Waco Clients to This Practice
- Burnout and depression behind a professional surface that looks intact to everyone around you
- Anxiety affecting performance and decision-making in ways that cannot be disclosed to the people around you
- Substance use that has been managed privately and is approaching a line
- A marriage or relationship that has been running on fumes while everything else was prioritized
- Family dynamics around wealth, succession, or a family member’s deterioration that need outside clinical perspective
- Identity questions when a role changes — a sale, a succession, a career transition
Telehealth — How It Works in Waco
Sessions are 60 minutes via secure HIPAA-compliant telehealth. A private space, a reliable internet connection, a device with a camera. A home office, a closed door, a hotel room if you’re traveling to Dallas or Austin for work.
Because Kyden Counseling is telehealth, Waco clients get access to the same clinical service as Houston or Dallas clients — without the drive to the nearest major metro and without the visibility risk of being seen in a waiting room in their own market.
The Clinician
Mack Kyles, LPC, MSW. Combat veteran. 20 years of clinical experience across crisis intervention, trauma, addiction, family systems, and marriage and family therapy. Private practice designed for high performers — people whose situation doesn’t fit a general outpatient model.
He understands smaller professional markets where reputation is the primary asset and visibility creates real risk. He understands multigenerational family dynamics, agricultural and land-holding wealth, and the specific presentations that come from people who have been managing something alone for a long time because there was no option that fit.
Services Available to Waco Clients
Individual Psychotherapy — $250 per 60-minute telehealth session
Couples Psychotherapy — $350 per 60-minute telehealth session
Family Psychotherapy — $350 per 60-minute telehealth session
Half-Day Intensive — $5,000, in-person by arrangement
All sessions are cash-pay. No insurance accepted or filed. Superbill available upon request for PPO plans.