Molly is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. She received her master’s degree in Counseling from Amberton University and holds her undergraduate degree from Dallas Baptist University in Psychology and Biblical Studies. Molly offers individual counseling for adolescents ages 11-17 and adults of all ages.

Prior to working at Nikaō or entering the counseling field, Molly worked in student ministry. After receiving her Master’s, she worked with the homeless population in Dallas and in a university counseling center. These backgrounds have given her a passion for and comfort level with counseling a wide variety of individuals.

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Molly loves to create a counseling space in which clients feel safe and can confidently build a trusting relationship with the counselor. Molly believes that counseling should be collaborative so that clients feel heard as well as guided. She is a Christian with a faith that impacts every area of her life but loves to work with those who don’t share her worldview. Her goal is to help individuals walk in more freedom, better understand themselves, and become more grounded in the lens through which they see the world.

Molly is happily married to Chris Hatley, who works on staff at a local church. Molly loves watching movies, playing games, shopping, dancing and having the most fun at all times!

“You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.” Gregory Boyle