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SOURCE: Penelope J. Hooks, M.D.
Dr. Penelope J. Hooks is a board certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst with a private practice in Houston. Dr. Hooks enjoys working with patients who want to move through
SOURCE: Erna Furman, author of “On Being and Having a Mother”
Dr. Penelope J. Hooks is a board certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst with a private practice in Houston. Dr. Hooks enjoys working with patients who want to move through
SOURCE: Penelope J. Hooks, M.D.
Dr. Penelope J. Hooks is a board certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst with a private practice in Houston. Dr. Hooks enjoys working with patients who want to move through
SOURCE: Girl with school refusal, Houston, Texas
SOURCE: Girl with school refusal, Houston, Texas
SOURCE: Sigmund Freud
One of the most important decisions you can make regarding a healthy lifestyle is your selection of a psychiatrist. Dr. Hooks provides individualized treatment for all of her patients. Schedule
SOURCE: Penelope J. Hooks, M.D.
“My greatest satisfaction is to see people learning to understand themselves,” says Dr. Penelope J. Hooks. “When patients can look at a situation from a different perspective, they can
SOURCE: April Benson, Ph.D, author of “I Shop, Therefore I Am”
One of the most important decisions you can make regarding a healthy lifestyle is your selection of a psychiatrist. Dr. Hooks provides individualized treatment for all of her patients. Schedule
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“My greatest satisfaction is to see people learning to understand themselves,” says Dr. Penelope J. Hooks. “When patients can look at a situation from a different perspective, they can understand in a deeper way what has not been working.”
Dr. Hooks helps her patients through life transitions, crisis situations, and exploration of their inner world. Appointments are available weekdays by calling 713-521-9087.
Specialties
Dr. Hooks is a board certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst in Houston. She enjoys working with patients who want to move through their issues and explore deeper feelings and ways of relating. She specializes in several areas including:
- Anxiety and Depression
- Shopping Addictions
- Living with Cancer
- Aging and Loss of Personal Power
- Parenting
- School worries in children
- Toileting problems in children
- Relationship Issues
- Adoption Issues
- Infertility Counseling & Routes to Alternative Parenting
- Blocks in Creativity
- Performance Anxiety
- Interface with professional licensing boards
Dr. Hooks also has expertise in working with specific types of individuals including:
- Parents
- Toddlers, Children and Adolescents
- Dancers
- Musicians
- Writers
- Business Professionals
- Physicians
- Lawyers
- Teachers
- Graduate Students
- Medical Students
Dr. Hooks, a Houston psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Psychoanalytic Association in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalysis. She is also a Training and Supervising Analyst, and a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst for the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.
Appointments are available weekdays by calling 713-521-9087.
Testimonials
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“Working with Dr. Hooks is an exhilarating learning experience. Almost any time – no, every time, I am working on sorting things out in my mind and I share it with her, her response hits the target. I end up thinking – Yes! That’s it! Yeah! Thank you Penny Hooks!”
- Ann Weiss, Director of Bo’s Place
Bo’s Place is a free, non-profit bereavement center offering grief support services for children, families and adults, and provides education and resources for those who assist people in grief. -
“Dr. Hooks is one of the very few therapists in the United States who has specialized training in treating people with shopping addictions. Warm, empathic, and highly skilled, if you are an overshopper or have a loved one who is, I couldn't recommend Dr. Hooks more highly.”
- April Lane Benson, Ph.D.
Editor, “I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self” (Aronson, 2000) -
“Dr. Penelope Hooks is unsurpassed in child, adolescent and adult psychoanalytic treatment. She has a deep understanding of human development, and shows a remarkable capability of patience and persistence to assist her patients in working through impasses that stymie forward movement. She represents a model of the highest ethical practice, and in every instance her patient comes first.”
- Arthur J. Farley, M.D.
President, Texas Academy of Psychiatric Physicians & Clinical Director of the New School in the Heights -
“Dr. Hooks has been my colleague at the Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, I have seen her teach and supervise trainees. Dr. Hooks is an excellent teacher and trainer of therapists, she has treated many patients successfully and efficiently and she is one of the few psychoanalysts in Houston who is certified to treat both adults and children.”
- Ruth Rosines, L.C.S.W.
Faculty, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
