A Black Therapist in Texas. Cash-Pay. No Insurance.
Mack Kyles is an African-American licensed psychotherapist practicing in Texas. He is a combat veteran and a clinician with 20 years of experience across crisis intervention, trauma, addiction, family systems, and marriage and family therapy. His practice serves high performers — executives, founders, physicians, attorneys, athletes, and high-net-worth families — via private, cash-pay telehealth.
If you are looking for a Black therapist in Texas who understands both clinical depth and the specific cultural and professional context of your life, this is the practice.
Why Representation Matters in Clinical Work
The therapeutic relationship is built on trust. Part of that trust is the sense that the person across from you understands your world — not just theoretically, but from inside some version of it. For many Black clients, that understanding includes: the experience of navigating predominantly white professional environments, the complexity of success and what it costs, the way strength is defined and performed in Black families and communities, and the particular weight of carrying leadership while managing experiences that others in the room don’t fully see.
Mack Kyles doesn’t need that explained. He has lived it. He has worked across institutions, commands, and clinical systems where being Black in a position of authority carries a specific kind of pressure. His clinical training is rigorous. His life context is real.
Who Calls This Practice
Black executives and professionals who have achieved at a high level and are managing something beneath the surface that the role doesn’t leave room for. Athletes and entertainers who need a clinician who understands what public identity costs privately. Physicians and attorneys who cannot afford a diagnosis on their professional record. High-net-worth Black families managing wealth, dynamics, and the generational weight that comes with it. Veterans who served and are carrying what service left behind.
Clients who specifically want a Black therapist. Clients who want someone who has navigated similar professional environments. Clients who are done translating their experience before the clinical work can begin.
What This Practice Addresses
Individual psychotherapy for executives, founders, physicians, attorneys, athletes, and high performers. Depression, anxiety, burnout, trauma, substance use, identity disruption, moral injury. The full clinical scope — not a narrow specialty.
Couples psychotherapy for two people who have been managing the relationship around everything else for long enough that the relationship now needs direct attention.
Family psychotherapy for family systems where one person’s deterioration is affecting everyone.
The half-day intensive for concentrated clinical work in a single structured session.
LPC supervision for Texas LPC Associates seeking a supervisor with real clinical depth and an understanding of the cultural and institutional contexts they’re working in.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you specifically work with Black clients?
Mack Kyles works with clients across backgrounds. He is an African-American clinician. Clients who specifically seek a Black therapist will find that experience here — along with 20 years of clinical depth and a practice built around the specific needs of high performers.
Is cultural context addressed in the clinical work?
Clinical work addresses what you bring in. For clients for whom race, identity, professional context, and the weight of navigating certain institutions are part of the presenting situation, those things are addressed directly — not minimized or treated as peripheral.
Do you take insurance?
No. Cash-pay only. No insurance accepted or filed. Superbill available upon request for PPO plans.
Is this telehealth only?
Yes, telehealth only (Texas statewide), with one exception: the half-day intensive is in-person only, by arrangement.