OPI Houston

Fulshear saved my life—twice. I first went to Fulshear in 2021 after moving to Texas. I gained the tools I needed to manage my mental health and really found healing there. One of the most impactful parts of my experience was equine therapy. I was a barn manager and caring for the horses gave me a deep sense of purpose. I also made connections that I still carry with me today. In 2024, I returned to Fulshear when I was struggling with substance use. I knew it was the place I needed to go, and once again, it changed my life. My therapist, Courtney Deadman, is the best therapist I have ever worked with. She’s inclusive, compassionate, and truly gifted at what she does. The family work we did together completely transformed my relationship with my parents—I’ve never communicated with them so well. Courtney held my light when I couldn’t, and now I can hold it proudly on my own. The rest of the clinical team—especially Micah and Injila—also made a huge impact. They led powerful groups and always made me feel seen and supported. The entire staff is truly exceptional. I also want to shout out the admissions team—Helaine is my hero. She supported me with so much care and compassion, and even checked in on me after I left treatment. She and her daughter Della are an amazing team and two of the most genuine, kindhearted people I’ve ever met. I’m beyond grateful for them. If you’re looking for a place that can truly help you heal, grow, and take back your life, I cannot recommend OPI Houston enough!!! Best of luck on your journey!

I came into the ranch broken lost and hurting. I had a lot of trauma from my childhood and my young adulthood that I never processed. As a result I was struggling with addiction, depression anxiety, you name it. Before the ranch I was use to abusive relationships, codependency, homelessness and isolation. I spent 3 months on the ranch and completely transformed my life. It was a lot of hard work. And I honestly wanted to change my life. I knew I was not living the life I was meant to live. I have nothing but good things to say about Fulshear. The staff is amazing and I believe in the program. Since Fulshear I am now 10 months sober. I live in a safe home and I'm able to have healthy relationships. I am back to working and even won employee of the month. I still continue with working with a therapist, which I will probably always continue to do in my life. It's a life long journey. But I was able to start and gain tools to start my healing and new life. I even found good friends at treatment that I still stay in touch with and we continue to love and support each other to this day. Fulshear will always hold a special place in my heart.

Update: I just saw on Instagram that Fulshear is rebranding /joining with OPI in California so I read those reviews. They both claim erroneously to be "safe places". I saw several recent ones saying OPI does not take bullying and drama seriously. Looks like that won't be changing anytime soon at Fulshear! My daughter was at Fulshear for 6 months, 3 at the ranch and 3 at apartments. After being home now for a year, the trauma of being there is coming out. While I believe the staff means well and the program has some positive aspects, it is not effective, but destructive, for some. In every arena of life, whether jobs, college campuses, and many other settings, there are parameters in place, and even laws in place, to protect individuals from bullying. At Fulshear my daughter who had been traumatized by bullying in the past, was subjected to chronic bullying. This led others (some of whom have written positive reviews) to attempt suicide frequently. The staff do not intervene unless it becomes physical. It is a sink or swim mentality. If your daughter is a veteran of treatment facilities and can handle being relentlessly bullied for her appearance (even if she is very attractive), her weight (even if it's normal), her faith, her beliefs, her clothing, her trauma from before, etc., then she may be strong enough for this program. It was recommended that my daughter, who was in treatment for the first time, go to a program that was supportive and encouraging without anti-social peers. In spite of this, Fulshear took her in and placed her with very anti-social house mates. After being assigned a random therapist with who she had no connection, she was expected to suddenly trust this person to work through not only past trauma but the trauma she faced daily. Fear and intimidation rule if your daughter goes there when there are several hateful, cruel, manipulative peers living in the same house. The fancy word they use for this is "milieu". It's like rolling dice. If the milieu has even a few cruel people, the pain will be worse. You can expect frequent suicide attempts from peers, screaming, group bullying, throwing things, walls being punched, doors being broken, patients cutting, and worse. At least one patient was allowed to run away and return frequently over the course of a few weeks, cutting herself, inserting stones and salt and pepper in to her wounds, and needing to be restrained. This was my daughter's house mate. One therapist questioned how that client's screaming could bother my daughter since my daughter's room was located at the rear of the same cottage. The screaming was persistent, deafening, and allowed to continue for long periods of time. This young woman belonged in an acute psych setting. In other reviews online and on Reddit, neighbors of the ranch report hearing clients screaming and cussing. It's real. The spectrum of clients is large and varied. Some of them are depressed, anxious, addicted, or suicidal, but genuinely nice people. Others are cruel, violent, and threatening with a long history of concerning anti-social behavior. They say they do not accept clients with conduct disorder. This is not true! I could name several examples! At times my daughter sought support from staff but they were often occupied with peers who were suicidal, so no help was not available because her needs seemed less to them. She fell through their cracks. At apartments bullying occurred online as phone access was granted. There is no oversight regarding bullying at either place. Clients are afraid to speak up. The staff observe all of this but do not ever intervene. The client is expected to fend for herself and survive while trying to heal and deal with the bullying through individual and group therapy (in groups with the peers who are the perpetrators). We went to Fulshear after paying a large sum of money to a consultant who highly recommended it. This consultant should be required to spend just one unfiltered night in the chaos of the "cotttages" before recommending it to others.

I was at Fulshear in 2017. They brand themselves as a trauma informed treatment center. What a joke. We were made to feel that we were liars if we didn’t want to share trauma/abuse in our lives with all the other girls. My therapist did a family call and as I was crying she told me “stop squealing like a pig” The same therapist also forced me to do EMDR with her and was so rude when I told her I wasn’t comfortable AND she did the touching/tapping method when I specifically said I didn’t want to be touched. This singular experience made me absolutely terrified to do EMDR even with my therapist of 8 years now. There’s so much I could say- I mean staff would gossip with patients about other patients and turn everyone against each other. Also the staff were literally just hired off of indeed right away with no training or understanding for mental illness. Pathetic. I was also there during hurricane Harvey and it was insane how much you could straight up hear the rude staff since we were all made to sleep in the admin building for a week. You were not even allowed to graduate if you didn’t share your entire life story with everyone in a group- wow stupid me for not wanting to share my extensive trauma history with some girls I didn’t trust or knew they would use it against me somehow. In conclusion, DONT GO HERE. EVERYTHING they do is based off of manipulation and turning girls against each other AND just having pathetic therapists who acted as if you were a bad person since you were at the “treatment” center. Don’t let anyone trick you into going here for a therapeutic experience- the psycho on the admissions phone spun a very great web of lies, clearly coached and practiced. F you fulshear, you made my life even harder than it already was and I’m still suffering 8 years later from what I endured here.

Fulshear is a great place to experience if you’re on your journey of self identity, healing, growth, strength, joy, and to be surrounded by lots of love. I recommend that you choose you by allowing caring people to support you along your journey to wholeness at Fulshear Treatment to Transition.

This a great facility, well ran and peaceful environment. Leticia and Zachary are great! Highly recommended,

Dropping my daughter off on a ranch, across the country, in the middle of Texas was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Had it not been for the encouraging words of other parents who had been in my shoes, I don't know if I would have done it. In an effort to learn as much as I could about Fulshear, I read these reviews, and, of course, the negative reviews terrified me. A year later, my daughter has graduated. Fulshear saved her life and I can say with one hundred percent honesty, that NONE of these awful things people have written are true. I have never met such loving and kind people--people who loved my daughter when she was at her worst and they certainly didn't have to. And they are what saved her. It wasn't enough for my husband and me to love her. She needed to know she could be loved by people who didn't have to. The staff and therapists are kind and caring but of course they challenge the girls---otherwise how would they grow? The other clients can be difficult---if they weren't, they wouldn't be at Fulshear. But these things taught my daughter to be strong, to learn to set boundaries, to have healthy relationships. My daughter was 19 when she entered Fulshear, but probably had the emotional maturity of a 16 year old. She left at 20 with the emotional maturity of a 30 year old. Fulshear saved her life and gave me my daughter back. I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone whose child needs their services.

I graduated from fulshear a couple days ago and it completely changed my life. I came into fulshear with chronic suicidal ideation, a severe self harm addiction that had already lasted 9 years, extremely ingrained self hatred, and substance abuse problems. I was at fulshear for one year, divided into 6 months on the ranch and 6 months at the apartments. The ranch was so difficult. It pushed me to my extremes, but the staff there made it so that I felt loved. The apartments were less difficult in some ways, but more difficult in other ways, it was essentially a test to see how much I was able to apply what I learned on the ranch. I had some setbacks, but I pushed myself and got a job, did school, and applied to college. The staff here is my family, they love me unconditionally, and just feeling so loved has helped me so much. I have met so many people that I know will be in my life forever. I found my best friends in this program, and I still talk to them every single day even after they graduated. I am now no longer suicidal, I am a year and 3 months sober, 8 months free of self harm and 9 months out from my last suicide attempt. Because of fulshear I finally understand what it feels like to be normal. I have been to countless programs, but if you are willing to work hard, and want to go to a program that will actually work. Go to fulshear.