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Graceful Pines Counseling & Consultation, PLLC was created with a simple belief: everyone needs a place where they can feel heard, supported, and understood.
Life can move quickly, and sometimes the demands of work, family, relationships, and caring for others leave little room to care for ourselves. Graceful Pines offers a calm, welcoming place to slow down, reflect, and begin finding your way forward.
Whether you're seeking support for yourself, your child, your relationship, or your family, counseling is a collaborative process shaped by your individual needs, experiences, and goals. You don't have to arrive with all the answers. Sometimes, you simply need a safe place to land and a little room to breathe.
Through life's changing seasons, Graceful Pines is here to help you find renewed strength, clarity, and hope.
About Dr. Lorry Royal
About Dr. Lorry Royal
Dr. Lorry Royal, LPC, NCC, CSC, is a licensed professional counselor and counselor educator with more than 25 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, families, educators, and helping professionals.
Her career began in education, first as an elementary and special education teacher and later as a school counselor serving students from Pre K through 12th grade. Throughout those years, her office often became more than a place for counseling. It became a quiet place where students and educators could step away from the demands of the day, feel heard, and simply take a moment to breathe. That experience continues to shape the warm, calming environment she has intentionally created at Graceful Pines.
Dr. Royal's professional experience also includes clinical mental health counseling and higher education. She currently teaches graduate counseling courses as an Adjunct Professor at East Texas A&M University and previously served as an Assistant Professor, helping prepare future counselors for the profession.
She earned her Bachelor's Degree from East Texas State University and both her Master's Degree in Counseling and PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Texas A&M University Commerce.
Today, her work is especially focused on women navigating life's changing seasons and educators, school counselors, and other helping professionals who spend so much of their lives caring for others. She also works with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
More than anything, Dr. Royal believes counseling should feel collaborative, genuine, and human. You don't have to arrive with the right words or all the answers. You simply need a place to begin.
The Heart Behind Graceful Pines 🩷
The Heart Behind Graceful Pines 🩷
Graceful Pines grew from a desire to create the kind of counseling practice I would want for myself and the people I care about, one that feels personal, welcoming, and unhurried.
After years of working with children, families, educators, and helping professionals, I have seen how easy it is to become so focused on caring for others that we lose sight of our own needs. I have also learned that meaningful change does not always begin with having the right answers. Sometimes it begins with finally having the time and space to listen to yourself.
That belief is at the heart of Graceful Pines. I wanted to create a practice where people can come as they are, without judgment or pressure, and know that their story matters.
Graceful Pines is more than the name of my practice. It represents what I hope you find here: a place to feel grounded, encouraged, and supported as you navigate life's changing seasons.
My Counseling Philosophy
My Counseling Philosophy
I believe people have strengths within them, even during seasons when those strengths may be difficult to recognize. Counseling is not about someone else telling you how to live your life. It is about creating a collaborative relationship where you can better understand yourself, recognize patterns that may no longer be serving you, and discover new possibilities for moving forward.
My role is to listen, encourage, ask thoughtful questions, and sometimes gently challenge you to look at things from a different perspective. Together, we will explore where you have been, where you are now, and where you would like to go.
I believe meaningful change happens when you feel supported enough to be honest with yourself, encouraged enough to recognize your own strengths, and empowered to make choices that move you toward the life you want to live.
Therapeutic Approaches
Therapeutic Approaches
My approach to counseling is primarily grounded in Adlerian Therapy and Reality Therapy, with an emphasis on understanding your experiences, recognizing your strengths, exploring the choices available to you, and moving toward meaningful change.
Adlerian Therapy helps us look beyond symptoms to better understand the experiences, beliefs, relationships, and patterns that have shaped how you see yourself and the world around you. Together, we can identify strengths, uncover patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and develop greater insight into the direction you want your life to take.
Reality Therapy focuses on the present and the choices you can make moving forward. While we cannot always change what has happened or control the circumstances around us, we can explore what is within your control and identify practical steps toward meeting your needs and creating meaningful change.
When working with couples, I incorporate principles and strategies from the Gottman Method to help partners strengthen communication, deepen understanding, manage conflict more effectively, and rebuild connection.
When working with children and families, I may also incorporate Child Centered Play Therapy, Child Parent Relationship Therapy, and Humanistic Sandtray Therapy. These approaches provide developmentally appropriate and creative ways to explore emotions, strengthen relationships, and support growth.
No single approach fits every person. Counseling is tailored to you, your experiences, your goals, and what you need from the process.
Taking the First Step
Taking the First Step
Reaching out for counseling can feel uncertain, especially if you're used to handling things on your own or being the person everyone else turns to.
You don't have to know exactly what to say or have everything figured out before you begin. You simply need to take the first step.
If you're considering counseling for yourself, your child, your relationship, or your family, click "Get Started Today" to complete the brief interest form. Once I receive it, I'll reach out to determine the next step and answer any questions you may have.
Sometimes the hardest part is simply deciding that you're ready for something to change. You don't have to navigate that change alone.
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