Meet Our Professionals
 Kim Peterson, MA, LPC, RPT
Program Manager
k.peterson@mpglp.com
713-773-5100 ext. 177
Kim works full-time as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist with MedCare. Kim sees individuals ranging from childhood through adulthood on a wide variety of concerns, including anxiety, depression, behavior, and post trauma. She is especially interested in working with adolescents on issues surrounding school, friends, relationships, self-esteem, and divorce. As a play therapist, Kim has completed specialized training and supervision in helping children heal through play activities.
In 2007, Kim worked in private practice, where she saw individuals, children, adolescents, and adults struggling with many issues, including major life crises, anxiety, depression, and anger. She also facilitated an adolescent divorce-recovery group and co-facilitated an adult divorce-recovery group. Kim spent time educating the group on the emotional and social effects they will face, led group member discussion about their own experiences, and encouraged healing through peer support.
Since 2008, Kim has worked full time for MedCare, where she works along side a multidisciplinary team to address a child’s physical, as well as emotional, needs. Kim acts as a behavior consultant to the rehab team, as well as providing individual and family therapy. Depending on the client and family’s needs, Kim will develop an individualized plan for achieving growth and healing.
A note from Kim:
First of all, thank you for taking the time to get to know me. As a Professional Counselor, I believe that all people have the right to happiness and success and that emotional, spiritual, and physical health are key ingredients to reaching that potential. I understand that there are times when we all need to seek help from others. My role is not to judge, but to meet people where they are, providing the support and feedback that they need to meet their goals. My approach is a combination of empathy, encouragement, and directives. I also place great emphasis on education and prevention, and continually strive to provide education and guidance to my clients and their parents. If you or someone you know are struggling, I encourage you to seek help from a professional counselor, minister, or someone you can trust, and not to allow the issue to grow. There is hope!
 Douglas Plaeger, MA, LPC
d.plaeger@mpglp.com
713-773-5100 ext. 326
Douglas is a full-time Licensed Professional Counselor with MedCare based in the Stafford clinic. He brings experience from working in outpatient, short-term residential and long-term residential treatment centers. Doug currently provides individual and family therapy, as well as consultation to a multi-disciplinary healthcare team, and regularly receives positive comments from his clients and colleagues that he is both caring and professional.
Douglas has worked with children with emotional and adjustment issues, addressing divorce, grief and loss, and family functioning using play therapy, sand tray therapy, and art therapy. Through the use of these techniques, Douglas believes that a child is able to identify emotions, cope with trauma, and better understand their role in the family system. Douglas has also used Applied Behavioral Analysis to promote healthy socialization and activities of daily living for children diagnosed with Autism and PDD. Through extinguishing of inappropriate behaviors and high positive reinforcement of appropriate behaviors, he shows how the child can associate socially acceptable behaviors and may adapt to mainstream society. Douglas has also worked with children and adolescents with severe psychological disorders using behavior modification and cognitive-behavioral therapy to address anger management strategies, coping skills, and grief and loss. Douglas has worked with adolescents with a primary diagnosis of substance abuse disorder through implementing the 12-Step program and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Through this model, the adolescent can identify the precipitating event that led to their drug use which was usually the cause of a death in the family, abandonment, abuse or neglect. The client also received family counseling to address the adolescent’s behavior within the family system and their change in lifestyle after treatment.
 Jenney Methvin, MA, LPC
j.methvin@mpglp.com
713-773-5100 ext. 327
Jenney is a Licensed Professional Counselor with MedCare based at the Stafford clinic. Jenney has experience working with children from 18 months up to 18 years of age and worked with many different populations and disorders, such as ADHD, Bipolar, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Depression, Anxiety, Reactive Attachment Disorder and Adjustment Disorders. Jenney enjoys working with all children and families and her objective is to help make a difference in their lives and facilitate the children in learning how to function to the best of their ability in all environments. She involves parents in therapy and offers parenting techniques that accommodate their child as an individual. Jenney makes a difference in the lives of children and families through her energetic, caring approach to therapy.
Jenney has counseled in community agencies in Austin and Dallas, Texas and has recently moved to the Houston area. While working at the community counseling agencies, Jenney educated parents on parenting skills and offered play therapy to children to facilitate them in school, home, and social situations. Jenney has also worked with pregnant teens and teen mothers in a group home. Jenney educated, counseled, and assisted the girls in discovering their strengths and their infinite potentials in life.
A note from Jenney:
I enjoy working with anyone who is seeking help and furthering self understanding. We are evolving individuals and we learn vicariously through the experiences of our own and others. It is up to you to look back and observe what lesson was learned or taught. I encourage you to explore yourself and identify your strengths and potentials that you have to offer others and just remember there’s always someone there to support you. As a counselor I offer unconditional positive regard, empathy, and understanding to all of my clients. It’s amazing to see the little differences that we make in the lives of others.
“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”
- Aldous Huxley
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