Christina Runnels

Christina Runnels is a licensed professional counselor supervisor (LPC-S) and perinatal mental health clinician (PMH-C) with over a decade of experience in mental health care and private practice leadership. She founded Greater Houston Counseling Services with a simple conviction: that high-quality mental health support should be accessible to every community and that the clinicians delivering it deserve a practice worth showing up to.

Her clinical background spans anxiety, trauma, perinatal mental health, and attachment issues. As an LPC-S, she is also deeply invested in the professional growth of the next generation of Texas counselors. Christina offers individual and group LPC supervision for provisionally licensed professionals working toward full licensure, grounded in clinical rigor, ethical practice, and real-world private practice experience.

Beyond supervision, Christina works with therapists who are ready to build or grow practices of their own. Her private practice coaching draws directly from her experience scaling GHCS to five Houston-area locations and statewide telehealth, covering everything from intake systems and team culture to marketing, leadership, and sustainable growth.

Christina is also the author of Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt and the host of the Lead Like A Mother podcast — both built around her core belief that women don't have to choose between a thriving career and a present family life. The Boldly Both philosophy isn't about balance. It's about integration, holding multiple identities at once without guilt, without apology, and without shrinking either one.

She is available for keynotes, workshops, and professional development events for mental health organizations, school districts, and women's leadership audiences. Her signature talk, "Boldly Both: The Art of Refusing to Choose," has been delivered to clinical teams and community organizations nationwide.

Real Life, Real Balance

When she's not working, she's fully in mom-mode—cheering on her boys at baseball games, sharing giggles with her daughter, or brunching with her husband and kids on the weekends. She believes you can be both ambitious and grounded, both nurturing and driven. That’s the energy she brings to GHCS, a space where excellence and authenticity co-exist.

Let’s Redefine What Mental Health Care Looks Like
Whether you’re a client, clinician, or community partner, GHCS is here to help you thrive. We’re not here to check boxes—we’re here to make mental health care feel like it truly belongs to you.