Carol Ann Maner(She/Her/Hers)

Carol Ann Maner is a Social Worker (LCSW-S), and a certified Gambling Counselor (ICGC-I). Carol Ann’s clinical training is informed by her personal recovery experience. In 2024, Carol Ann celebrated 20 years of sobriety in a recovery program where she has been a member for 30 years.

Carol Ann’s office at the Gambling Clinic of Texas is located in West Houston. She works with adults of all ages, and offers both in-person and telehealth therapy sessions.

Carol Ann is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). Both therapies have been shown to be clinically effective – as well as personally meaningful - for clients. These non-judgmental approaches allow clients to learn to respond more effectively when urges to gamble occur.

Many of Carol Ann’s clients begin therapy with questions about whether – or how - to stop gambling due to financial distress, damaged relationships, and/or powerful urges to gamble. Carol Ann is dedicated to working with recovering gamblers, and their family members who have been affected. For this reason, she also has advanced training in resolving financial betrayal, anxiety, and depression.

Carol Ann's style is approachable, honest, and accepting. When clients first start therapy, she tries to understand, in the client's own words, what might have happened recently that caused them to seek treatment now.

Carol Ann received her Master of Social Work (MSW) from University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW). While working at Daring Ventures Counseling, she saw the devastating impact of problem gambling on families in Texas. In 2024, Carol Ann and her husband, Paul, opened a clinic focused on treating problem gambling and gambling harms in Texas.

Outside of private practice, Carol Ann and Paul are both involved in Twelve Step service, and they love to work in their garden.