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Court-Appointed Parenting Facilitator
Licensed Professional Counselor
With extensive experience in high-conflict family systems, custody-related interventions, and child-focused dispute resolution, Lucas provides unsurpassed behavioral health counseling for individuals, couples, and families, as well as parent facilitation and mediation to support healthier co-parenting relationships and child wellbeing.
Curriculum Vita
Parent Facilitator
Lucas Cantu, LPC
Parent Facilitation & Custody Evaluation Experience
Court-Appointed Therapist, Parent Facilitator, and Custody Evaluator
Bexar County Domestic Relations Office, San Antonio, Texas
2014 – Present
Court-appointed therapist, parenting facilitator, and custody evaluator in high-conflict custody and visitation matters.
Licensed Professional Counselor | Private Practice
State-Licensed Counseling Practice, Bexar / Collin / Cherokee Counties
2009 – Present
Provides behavioral health counseling for children, teens, couples, and families.
Specializations
- Family and individual counseling
- Mood disorders
- PTSD
- Autism
- ADHD
Assistant Manager / Licensed Professional Counselor
Child and Family Guidance Center, Dallas, Texas (Non-profit agency)
2007 – 2009
Provided site management and counseling services for underprivileged populations.
Education & Credentials
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
M.A., Double Major (Honors): I/O Psychology and Clinical Psychology; Minor in Business Administration
2005
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
B.S., Double Major: Psychology and Graphic Arts; Minors: Biology and Graphic Design
1999
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Internship (psychology-focused placement)
Statutory Qualifications (TFC § 153.6101)
- Basic Mediation – 40 Hours, Manousso Mediation & Arbitration, LLC
- Advanced Family Mediation – 30 Hours, Manousso Mediation & Arbitration, LLC
- Parenting Coordination & Facilitation – 10 Hours, Manousso Mediation & Arbitration, LLC
- Family Violence Dynamics – 8 Hours, Manousso Mediation & Arbitration, LLC; GoodTherapy, LLC
Professional Memberships
- Texas Association of Mediators
- Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
- Our Family Wizard
- Psychology Today
- GoodTherapy.org, LLC
2005
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
M.A., Double Major (Honors): I/O Psychology and Clinical Psychology; Minor in Business Administration
2005
Publications
Desjean-Perrotta, B., Moseley, C., & Cantu, L. (2008). Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of the Environment: Does Ethnicity or Dominant Residential Experience Matter? Journal of Environmental Education, 39(2), 1–31.
Cantu, L.E. & Scharff, L.V. (Review). Stereoscopic Semantic Activation Reveals Conscious and Unconscious Influences on Choice. Consciousness and Cognition.
Cantu, L. E. & Scharff, L. V. (November, 2006). Stereoscopic Semantic Activation Reveals Unconscious Influence on Word Stem Completion. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 11, 56.
Cantu, L.E. (2005). The Individual and Combined Effects of Conscious and Unconscious Semantic Activation on Preferential Behaviors in a Stereoscopic Reading Task. Master’s thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University.
Cantu, L., Gundersen, D.E., & Rozell, E.J. (2005). Creativity and Critical Thinking: What is it? Who has it? How do we get more of it? Ethics and Critical Thinking Journal, 1, 108–126.