PhD Dwan Reed

Dwan Milam-Reed is a licensed clinical social worker with a PhD in marriage and family therapy. She operates her own private practice, Elysian Counseling & Education, LLC, in Houston, Texas, where she provides individual and couples counseling. She is also a professional public speaker who offers workshops on storm preparedness, diversity, communication, resiliency, suicide prevention, and other helpful topics.

Dwan and her family are survivors of the Tax Day flood and Hurricane Harvey. They know what it’s like to have to evacuate your home, lose most of your belongings, live in a cramped space, be taken advantage of by your insurance company, and struggle to rebuild. Dwan and her husband, Thomas, learned a lot about how to recover from such a catastrophe. It is Dwan’s goal to make sure that no one has to endure the aftermath of a devastating storm again without the information needed to recover effectively.