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Randel Porter, LPC
The same high-functioning anxiety. The same looping arguments. The same underlying stuck feeling — no matter how much you've tried, how successful you've become, or how clearly you understand what's happening.
Plano and the greater Dallas-Fort Worth region attract exceptional people. I work with executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals who have built remarkable lives and handle intense complexity at the highest level every day.
And yet, something keeps happening that none of that professional success touches.
Maybe it's the conversation that always escalates before either of you intended it to. The decision you can't bring yourself to make despite knowing exactly what you should do. The anxiety that shows up uninvited no matter how well everything else is going. The relationship that should be thriving, but isn’t. Or maybe it's a silent sadness or executive burnout or depression that lingers quietly beneath everything — present even when life looks entirely pristine from the outside.
You don't want to talk about it indefinitely. You want it to stop.
That's exactly what my work addresses.


Most therapy models help you understand what's happening. This goes directly to the neurobiological and subconscious mechanisms that have been generating the distress — and clears it.
I do not teach you to manage it.
I do not ask you to endlessly process it.
I help you clear it.
& North Dallas Clients via Secure VideoThoughtful, highly capable people who have tried to figure this out through sheer determination, reading, or previous therapy — and find it keeps happening anyway.
High performers who want what keeps happening entirely gone. Not managed. Not explained. Gone.
Professionals who come not because something is broken, but because their thinking, decisions, or presence could be sharper, clearer, and more effective. For them, this isn't therapy in the traditional sense — it's executive coaching at the deepest level.
If that's where you are today — you're in exactly the right place.
For this specific root-cause methodology, definitely yes. The profound transformation occurs within the structure of our targeted clinical conversation, not the physical room. Clients connecting with me via video across the DFW region — from Highland Park, University Park and Preston Hollow to Westlake, Westover Hills, and Southlake — report the exact same rapid, deep shifts as those who work with me in person.
Most professionals arrive expecting a standard bureaucratic intake interview. Instead, the first session is active and direct. We go straight to what's generating the problem, and most clients experience a tangible shift before the session ends. My sessions are engaging and explicitly respectful of your valuable time.
Yes. Couples counseling and marriage therapy are a significant part of my practice. The same approach that liberates individuals works powerfully for couples. We bypass surface-level bickering to target the exact source generating the conflict, allowing you to achieve a real, enjoyable connection quickly.
It's not indefinite. Most clients experience meaningful shifts quickly—often within the first few sessions. We work together with momentum until the specific issue that brought you in is completely resolved, rather than keeping you in therapy cycles for months or years.
No. Think of AI like a giant encyclopedia. It simply references what is already available to draw from in the real world—meaning it relies entirely on older, legacy talk-therapy methods. My unique approach is completely different; a computer model has no historical reference material to obtain results the way that you and I will work.
True, rapid resolution happens in the spaces text algorithms cannot see. A screen cannot track your facial expressions, your shifting body language, or the subtle verbal phrases you might utter under your breath that you think are meaningless, but actually give clues to your whole story. AI is completely blind to those micro-cues. Furthermore, a chatbot cannot organically connect the hidden threads between decades of your personal history as they surface across several successive sessions.
In other words: AI is a model. But it does not contain my model. One session will make that abundantly clear.
Furthermore, elite care requires a boundary that a machine learning algorithm cannot respect. When we connect via Zoom or FaceTime, our sessions are a direct, live human conversation. Your private life remains a private discussion between us—not data material that goes who knows where and is used to train, harvest, or index a public software application.
A brief, complimentary consultation is the best first step. This private conversation allows you a chance to share what's been going on and determine whether this is the right fit.