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Coping With Stress After a Storm or Flood in Katy

Social House Wellness Company

July 10, 2024

Everyday Wellbeing

Updated October 11, 2026 · Social House Wellness Company

After a storm or flood, the weather may clear before your stress does. Repairs, disrupted routines, missed work, and uncertainty can leave little room to process what happened. You do not need to feel grateful, productive, or “back to normal” on anyone else’s timeline.

Put immediate needs first

Follow local emergency instructions and address immediate safety, shelter, food, medication access, and essential communication before trying a wellness routine. This article is about emotional support; it is not a substitute for emergency guidance. Call 911 for immediate danger.

If the task list feels impossible, divide a page into “today,” “can wait,” and “need help.” Choose one item from the first column. A specific request—“Could you pick up groceries?” or “Can you sit with me while I make this call?”—may be easier for others to act on than a general request for support.

Create small points of predictability

You may not control the repair schedule, but a familiar meal, a check-in with someone you trust, or a simple evening routine can create a little structure. Adjust expectations to what is possible in your current situation. Recovery does not have to look organized to be real.

SAMHSA recommends staying connected, maintaining routines where possible, and taking breaks from distressing news. Keep access to necessary alerts while limiting repeated viewing of upsetting footage. Consider choosing a time to check updates instead of keeping coverage on continuously.

Help children understand what happens next

Use simple, honest language: “The storm damaged our home. Tonight we are staying here, and these adults are helping.” Let children ask questions without promising that nothing frightening will ever happen again. Focus on the next known step and who will be with them.

Changes in behavior can be a reason to check in rather than assume defiance. Offer choices where possible, such as which familiar item to keep nearby. If concerns about sleep, separation, behavior, or school persist or are severe, consult your child’s pediatrician or a child mental health professional.

When additional support may help

Reach out if distress is interfering with daily life, you feel unable to cope, or you want someone outside the situation to talk with. You do not have to wait for a particular number of days. Ask about practical barriers such as transportation, privacy, cost, or internet access when exploring care.

For disaster-related emotional distress in the United States, call or text the Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990. SAMHSA describes it as a 24/7, multilingual service. For suicide or mental health crisis support, call or text 988.

For ongoing therapy in Katy, contact Social House about current options. Our contact form is not an emergency service.

Resources: SAMHSA coping tips and Disaster Distress Helpline.

Ashley Rodriguez, LPC

Works with: Children, teens, and adults
Languages: English and Spanish
Focus: Anxiety, family stress, identity, and relationships

Ashley provides counseling in English and Spanish for children, teens, and adults. She supports clients navigating anxiety, family stress, identity exploration, relationship concerns, and emotions that can feel difficult to understand or manage.

Her approach is warm, grounded, and responsive to each person’s age, experiences, and needs. She blends CBT, trauma-informed strategies, play therapy, and emotion-focused approaches to help clients express themselves and develop ways of handling challenges.

Ashley brings respect for cultural differences and family experiences to her work. She offers a welcoming space for clients and families seeking bilingual care where they can feel understood and speak in the language most comfortable for them.

Jasmine Porche-Ware, LMFT-Associate

Works with: Individuals, couples, and families
Focus: Relationships, trauma, and emotional connection

Jasmine works with individuals, couples, and families who want to understand themselves and their relationships more clearly. She provides trauma-informed care with a particular commitment to supporting BIPOC clients in a space where their identities and experiences are respected.

Her approach is collaborative, compassionate, and shaped around each client’s needs. She helps clients recognize relational patterns, work through difficult conversations, and build stronger emotional connections. With couples, she draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman Method principles. Her broader work includes CBT, DBT, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, and individual EMDR when appropriate.

Jasmine is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist-Associate, a certified Cognitive Processing Therapy provider through the State of Texas, and a certified sex therapist.

Maria Ramirez, LPC

Languages: English and Spanish
Focus: Anxiety, grief, cultural adjustment, and family relationships
Visits: In-person in Katy and online across Texas

Maria provides counseling in English and Spanish with warmth, curiosity, and respect for each client’s culture, identity, and lived experience. She supports people navigating anxiety, depression, grief, family relationships, cultural adjustment, and questions about who they are and where they belong.

She also works with clients who feel pressure to hold everything together—whether that shows up as perfectionism, self-criticism, imposter syndrome, or difficulty making room for their own needs. Her work includes support for migratory grief and the emotional challenges that can come with building a life in a new place.

Maria’s integrative approach draws from family systems, attachment-based, cognitive behavioral, and person-centered therapies. She offers individual EMDR when it fits a client’s needs, along with in-person counseling and secure online therapy across Texas.

Maria also leads our currently running Spanish-language group, Family Systems and Relational Healing. Contact our team to ask about the group or counseling with Maria.

Adam Rahman, LPC-S

Works with: Adults
Focus: Trauma, anxiety, relationships, and life transitions
Visits: In-person in Katy and online across Texas

Adam is the founder and Clinical Director of Social House Wellness Company. He works with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, relationship challenges, stress, and major life transitions—including people who are used to achieving a lot while carrying more than others realize.

His style is grounded, direct, and collaborative. He combines Adlerian therapy, EMDR, Reality Therapy, and parts-informed work to help clients understand what they’re experiencing and find a way forward that fits their lives. Adam offers individual and group EMDR. His approach makes room for honest conversation, emotional safety, and working through what keeps showing up.

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