Dr Janice M Beal & Associates 2656 South Loop West, Houston, TX 77054

"The owner of this business near the medical center on the south side , testified in favor of a TXDOT development plan with staggering negative consequences for Northside Neighborhoods including mine, Near Northside. She also testified that opponents to the project don't live in these communities. As someone who does live in an impacted community and opposed to this project, I feel similarly justified in making an uninformed comment about the quality of this counseling practice, because what goes around comes around."

"In summary, I was repeatedly beaten because I told this woman that my mother would punch, kick, and slap me at home after our sessions together (mom attended them too) if I told her anything was wrong. She did nothing about it. The longer version? I no longer live in Texas, thankfully, but I attended counseling sessions with Dr. Janice Beal as a young tween. It started out as counseling just for me, but Dr. Beal could sense that most of the problems that I brought up centered around my mother, so she asked if I would like to bring her in for a few sessions. I was thrilled, as my mother had been physically, emotionally, and mentally abusing me at home. I, a young child, thought that maybe this adult with a whole doctorates in counseling would be able to be a source I could trust to tell her about what was going on at home. I was wrong. Absolutely wrong. My mother began to attend my sessions with me, but I was not able to get a word in edgewise. She would talk the entire session, and any time that I shared at all, or gave my opinion (things that Dr. Beal would prompt out of me) I would go home and get a beating for it. It got to a point that as soon as I walked into that room, that used to be my safe space to talk about my problems for all of 3 sessions, it became her room to tell her narcissistic lies. I would stay silent during sessions, and be even fearful of being asked questions by either of them, because there was no right answers that would not get me hurt or threatened when I got home. Ever the naive optimist, I thought, "Well maybe she can't TELL that I'm getting hit at home? Mom purposely does it in places where no one will see the bruises, so maybe I can tell her and someone will do something." I risked it all one day, as she kept prodding me to tell her why I seemed so vacant in sessions, stopped responding to any and all sessions, etc. I finally admitted that it was because most of the things my mother told were lies, but if I said something, I'd get hit when I got home. She asked, "With a belt...?" I told her no, and that my mother had open-hand slapped me, punched me, etc. She was abusing me. I have a million stories of the things that that evil woman has done, but I risked everything to tell her that. My mother's eyes had fire in them, but she was silent, waiting on Dr. Beal to say something. She just said, "Well... sometimes mothers and daughters fight." I clarified that this was not both of us kicking, slapping, punching, calling eachother useless. It was just her. She just seemed hesitant and said, "Well... maybe something you need to do is hit her a LITTLE less, but plenty of parents spank..." That was it. That was the moment that I bucked myself up for. At the time I was bordering suicidal, so I didn't care what happened if my mom heard me say outloud that she was abusive. But my mother did NOT spank. She was beating me, frequently. I was threatened to not say anything. I was scared in my own home. My grades plummeted because every day this woman called me restarted and insulted me. And she let me down. She did nothing. Ironically years later, I saw her at a seminar for domestic abuse... hilarious. As for the way things ended for me, I was homeless from the age of 17 to 20 because my mother attempted to kill me in the middle of my senior year. She tried to choke me to death. Of course over the years, the abuse got worse and worse because she was clearly untouchable. She was even friends with Dr. Beal on Facebook. She. Did. Nothing. I would not trust my children (if I had them) with this woman for any amount of money. What she did was complicit with my abuse."