Catharine Griffin, LPC

11/12/2025

FREE event at Hope Road Counseling November 20, 6pm! Come join me!

11/12/2025

FREE event at Hope Road Counseling in partnership with the city of Longview! Dreading upcoming family time? Lets talk about ways we can stress less and enjoy more at our holiday gatherings!

03/04/2025

We're hard at work resolving our intermittent phone issues! We don't want to miss you, so please hope on over to our contact us page & leave your info. We'll give you a call back 💚

https://www.hoperoadcounseling.org/contact

01/30/2025

In addition to the Longview location, I am now seeing clients in Marshall too! Grateful to serve East Texas! ❤️

Meet Catharine Griffin, LPC!

She grew up in a rural area just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. She attended North Georgia University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education and Special Education. Her love for counseling grew in the classroom environment where she realized that families and children were in need of resources, tools and support to navigate life’s challenges and needs outside of the classroom. In 2012, she earned a Masters of Arts degree in Biblical Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary.

She has counseling experience in the elementary school setting, a crisis pregnancy resource center, and finally at Hope Road counseling.

She enjoys working with children, adolescents, individuals, families and couples with experience navigating anxiety, depression, grief, su***de prevention, divorce, infidelity, sexual betrayal, third culture kids, and a host of challenges that people face personally and in relationships.

Catharine also enjoys playing with her children, backyard farming, writing, teaching and studying the Bible, mentoring college students, and coordinating ministry and growth opportunities for women in her church. When she is not in the office, she enjoys being outside with her husband and three boys.

12/26/2024

12/18/2024

Meet Steve Archer, LCDC, LPC-S!

Steve grew up in Longview and attended Mobberly Baptist Church before attending UT Tyler and earning a BA in Psychology. He then attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX and earned a Master of Arts in Religious Education and Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling. Following Seminary, Steve moved back to Longview and began working for Community HealthCore in several roles including casework and numerous positions of leadership throughout the organization. When Steve was not working at Community HealthCore he offered counseling services at Mobberly Baptist Church for over two decades. Steve continues his work as the Director of Behavioral Health at Community Health Core but will continue to offer part-time counseling through Hope Road.

Steve is married to Jenny and they have 6 children. Steve and Jenny are active members of Mobberly and involved in the Life Matters ministries to blended, foster, and adoptive families.

12/06/2024

Free Chick-fil-A to start the day! (Sorry, folks, it was yesterday, not today) Thank you, Orr Cadillac GMC, Hope Road Counseling and Chick-fil-A!

12/02/2024

🎉🍽️ Rise and Shine, Longview! 🍽️🎉

Get ready to kickstart your morning with a delectable Chick-Fil-A breakfast! Join us on Thursday, December 5th from 7:00 - 8:30 a.m. for a delicious drive-thru experience that you won't want to miss!

When: Thursday, December 5th
Time: 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Where: Drive Through Only at Chick-Fil-A - 507 SH-281 Loop E, Longview, TX 75605

✨ FREE Breakfast provided by Orr GMC and Hope Road! It’s the perfect way to fuel up for your day – ☕🥯🥞

Mark your calendars, invite your friends, and join us for a morning of great food! 🎊

💖 We can’t wait to see you there! 💖

11/12/2024

Meet Natalie Hale, PhD, LPC!

Natalie is a Licensed Professional Counselor who compassionately understands that each person is unique and worthy of care. She offers a safe environment of trusted connection and walks with people through many different life experiences. Natalie believes helping others to discover their best life is important, and she comes alongside to explore, encourage, and guide this personal journey.

Natalie’s passion for connecting with others inspired her professional development over the years and led her to the field of counseling. Natalie has a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision and a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling.

During Natalie’s years in the counseling profession, she has provided counseling services in private practice, school, and university counseling centers. She works with individuals, couples, families, adolescents, children, and older adults. In addition to counseling, Natalie has also been a professor of counselor education at a local university.

Natalie’s faith and family are most important to her. She has a wonderful husband, and they enjoy traveling, nature, and spending time on the water. She and her husband also have four beautiful daughters, four great sons-in-law, and two amazing grandsons.

11/05/2024

On this election eve, God has not given you a spirit of fear

How many times a day are we guided by fear? Sometimes our fears are very present, in the form of real threats. We often live in anticipation surrounding needs we have like a cure from an illness for ourselves or a precious loved one; or perhaps looming financial needs, or on the eve of election, the fear that somehow the future of our country is based solely on who we select as our leader. This "spirit of fear" will well up in us and suddenly we find ourselves making decisions out of fear rather than out of places of peace and trust.

Paul, during his time of persecution, urged the followers of Jesus not to live in fear even as they knew Paul was suffering in prison because of his faith and others had died because of their faith in Jesus. Following Jesus was dangerous.

"...for God gave us not a spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control."

In other words, God imparts many things to us- His power, the ability to love and control ourselves, but He does not gift us fear. That is not part of his design for our lives.

Whether we stand in the face of real threats or we are at the mercy of our thoughts and imagination, one thing is clear, God’s design is not fear but peace.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil 4:6-7).”

Will you allow the Lord to keep watch over you and protect you from your fears? Our first step in trusting the Lord may simply be to bring him our anxious thoughts and stand ready to receive his peace.

It will be this peace, that often doesn’t follow the rules, that will allow us to wake up on Wednesday morning with the ability to face whatever the day holds, and hopefully even spread some love.

11/02/2024

Arturo is bi-lingual. What a great resource for our community!

Meet Arturo Morales, LPC!

Mexico City native Arturo Morales is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Texas. He has been practicing at Community HealthCore since 2015, the local mental health authority in Gregg County. Arturo is also an adjunct professor at LeTourneau University. Arturo holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and Finance from Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City, Mexico), a Master of Arts in Spanish Literature from Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS), and a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from LeTourneau University (Longview, TX).

Arturo is actively involved in the thriving church he and his wife Myra founded in 2006, Iglesia Nueva Vida Asamblea de Dios.

Arturo and Myra have been married almost 20 years, and have three children. He enjoys traveling, leading worship, playing the piano, soccer and watching a good action movie with the family.

“When I began the Masters of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy, I was naive and arrogant in thinking I was being prepared to help people. Soon after I began the academic program, God used not only the rigorous training from my professors and colleagues, but also my own experiences to bring me to a place of humility, where I have realized (and am still realizing) my ever-present need of dependency of God’s grace to go through the broken and painful areas of my life. Such a realization has redefined my vision for counseling, compelling me to be a hope bearer and catalyst for change while walking alongside those that are hurting, broken-hearted, confused and desperate.”