Ryne Pulido,PhD

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Meet Dr. Ryne Pulido.

You’re looking for clear guidance and strategies to help your child walk down the rocky road of life.

By the time parents reach out to me, they are exhausted from trying to balance a full-time job, family, navigating the complex landscape of special education, or just finding a trusted professional who will take their concerns seriously.

I’m a psychologist based in Georgetown, TX, who specializes in helping youth (aged 2 to 39) and their caregivers just like you - proactive, resourceful, and compassionate. That’s why I aim to give you more than a diagnosis and referrals for therapy. I aim to give you a prioritized plan.

Four Pillars of Care

Effectiveness

I highly value utilizing approaches and assessment tools backed by robust research and aligned with the current mainstream scientific consensus.

Individuality

I understand there’s no one-size-fits-all for change. I work with each youth and their families to mix effective strategies with their unique history, brain type, personality, and lifestyle.

Autonomy

My ultimate goal is to help your child live a personally meaningful life - not the life you or society wants for them. The truth is that everyone has the freedom to choose what is important to them and to act toward those values. But not everyone is exercising that choice. Work with me is heavily focused on identifying personal values and choosing to move toward them. While I provide guidance and direction, my clients are free to choose their actions without my interference.

Education

Knowledge is power. It’s cliché, and it is the truth. Learning something new when you’re stuck is like pouring gasoline into an empty tank - it gets you moving again. Working with me involves learning new things and getting out into one’s discomfort zone - that is the only place discoveries happen.

“Kids do well when they can.”
- Ross Greene, PhD

How I Work

This is one of my favorite quotes. It explains why kids get stuck. Stuckness is a can’t do problem. Rarely is stuckness a won’t do.

Stuck kids don’t need another argument or lecture. They need to learn a skill to overcome their “can’t do” challenges. To that end, my work with youth focuses on teaching skills in:

  • Turning big dreams into small goals

  • Emotional literacy

  • Mindful awareness

  • Self-soothing, self-care, and self-compassion

  • Handling difficult thoughts

  • Problem-solving and executive functioning skills

  • Communication and social skills

  • Persisting in the presence of emotional pain.

“So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.”
— Virginia Satir

Parents also do better when they can.

No one ever taught you how to parent a child, especially a child with a clinical disorder or neurodivergence.

Here’s the secret. You have permission to be imperfect. Humans have been parenting imperfectly for 200,000 years. But parenting imperfectly doesn’t mean it has to be this hard. You can learn skills to make the rollercoaster ride a bit smoother.

My work with parents in central Texas involves teaching practical skills in:

  • Strengthening your parent-child relationship

  • Boosting your child’s motivation and self-confidence

  • Increasing helpful behaviors while decreasing unhelpful behaviors

  • Improving follow-through with adult requests and commands

  • Building work ethic

  • Setting firm limits without arguing, yelling, or hitting

  • De-escalation

  • Encouraging your child to persist in the face of depression and anxiety

  • Supporting your child as they launch into independence

  • Living a balanced life as a parent of a child with challenges

Experienced With:

  • Neuropsychological Evaluations identify brain-based strengths and difficulties, strategies to leverage strengths, and tools to overcome difficulties.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (such as Acceptance Commitment Therapy). In particular, ACT focuses on learning down-to-earth skills for managing emotions, thoughts, urges, behaviors, and attention to live a life worth living and sharing.

  • Parent Management Training (PMT) is a parent-focused treatment for disruptive behavioral problems in childhood. PMT teaches parents how to walk the line between being firm and understanding.

  • Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is a parent-focused treatment for childhood anxiety, OCD, and related disorders. SPACE teaches parents how to support their children in overcoming challenges independently. SPACE also helps parents “launch” their adult-children who are struggling with independence (“failure to launch”).

  • Neurodivergent Youth (such as ADHD and autism) struggle to intuitively navigate a world that is not set up for their brain to succeed. ACT helps ND youth connect with who they are and who they want to be deep down in their heart while learning skills to handle a challenging world.

Credentials

Texas Licensed Psychologist; License #37659

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX (Whoop!)

Postdoctoral Internship - Children’s Health/UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX (APA Accredited)

Predoctoral Internship - Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO)/University of Colorado in Aurora, CO (APA Accredited)

Member of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Member of Division 54, Society of Pediatric Psychology

Member of Division 53, Society of Child and Adolescent Psychology

Member of the Texas Psychological Association

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