Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine
@ Indigo Healing Acupuncture PLLC

Dr. Michelle Wendt, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM), DACM is the founder & owner of Indigo Healing Acupuncture PLLC. Her mission is to empower her patients to heal from within.

Michelle completed her Master of Science Degree in Oriental Medicine at the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and is a Licensed Acupuncturist in the State of Hawaii and the State of Texas. She is a certified Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Dipl. O.M.) by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Michelle completed her Doctoral studies in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM) at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.

During her doctoral program, Michelle completed a clinical rotation at Dripping Springs Pediatrics and built a bridge to integrative medicine.

Michelle uses combinations of acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, moxibustion, fire cupping, and Chinese herbs to improve the health and well-being of her patients.

Michelle specializes in Chronic Pain, Fertility & Pregnancy Support, Pediatrics, Migraine, Headaches, Insomnia, Anxiety, and Grief.

Indigo Healing Acupuncture is located in the Texas Hill Country near Dripping Springs, Texas.

Multidisciplinary artist, ceremonialist, homesteader, dream tracker, soul guide and somatic educator in the Feldenkrais Method.

Certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and the Institute for the Study of Somatic Education in San Francisco, their teachers in the work include Julie Casson-Rubin, Paul Rubin, Alan Questel, Ken Robins (Somatic Experiencing) and Patrick Douce of the Esalen Institute. They also have studied embryological development/embodiment with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen of Body-Mind Centering, and is a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200) through Amy Cooper and the Shasta Yoga Institute.

Under mentorship with Matthew Cochran of Raven Dream Tracking, Foa has been learning the art of listening to dreams and following their lead for over 10 years and now offers guidance within this lineage of wisdom-work.

Identifying as an accidental naturalist, they have completed apprenticeships in applied permaculture design, plant-spirit medicine craft and folk herbalism, bird language and outdoor survival/wilderness-living, and rites of passage work from elders of the Animas Valley Institute.

Foa has been living with disability/chronic pain for over 20 years. Apprenticing the non-human world, turning to the wisdom of nature, regenerative design, and listening to the vanguards of the social justice movement are fundamental to their process and work.

Counselor / Psychotherapist

I specialize in helping individuals with life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, personal and spiritual growth.

As a Heart-Centered psychotherapist, I view each individual’s journey through a lens of compassion, curiosity, and acceptance.

I love helping people cultivate a deeper, kinder, more supportive relationship with themselves and helping to shift conditioning and beliefs around this being “overindulgent” and/or “selfish.”

Using an Integrative Approach, I make room for all parts of our humanness, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. I work from an attachment-based, and trauma-informed foundation and draw on several therapeutic methods to assist with building tools and resources that are supportive, insight-oriented and focused on creating deep, lasting change. Primary therapeutic methods I draw from are:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Inner child/reparenting work
• Internal Parts work
• Neurobiology
• Mindfulness practices
• Somatic awareness
• Depth oriented therapy
• Existential inquiry
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

I consider each person’s unique life experiences, worldview and nervous system while exploring and connecting with the resilience, gifts, and truth that lie within their own body and brain. The choice to seek psychotherapy can be a journey in and of itself – it takes courage and strength to ask for support. I’m continuously awed and inspired by my client’s courage, vulnerability, and resilience. Embarking on the journey to be seen, look within, let go of the past, heal and grow, with time, opens more space within our bodies and minds to connect with our true selves and experiences of connectedness, joy, peace, clarity, ease and well being.

I work with clients throughout the state of TX and currently offer in-person and virtual sessions. You can learn more about me and my practice at JenniferPaap.com

Holistic Psychotherapist

Specializes in helping Women who do a lot of caregiving professionally and/or at home, who are moving through their own big life transitions and personal stress.

“You’re doing all the right things and taking care of the people that need you. You’re also trying to take care of yourself the best you can, but it doesn’t seem to be enough. Maybe you’re going through some big life changes or maybe an underlying anxiety that has always been there is getting harder to hide. You don’t need someone to fix you, but you may need some space to BE you.

I’ve been supporting women through all kinds of life transitions for over 20 years. In addition to mindfulness-based counseling, I incorporate hypnotherapy, mind-body practice, meditation, movement, and/or traditional healing tools as needed. I work mostly with women who do a lot of caring for others, whether in their professional life or at home. If you are facing the beginning or ending of something important, trying to balance your own needs with everyone else’s, or dealing with a relentless inner critic, my work is to help you find your way back to your own heart, your own center, and your own strength.

If you’d like to learn more about me and my background as a holistic psychotherapist, spiritual counselor, ceremony officiant, faculty at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, and author of Lessons of Labor, please visit my website.”

LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

I use depth-oriented and experiential modalities to get to the root cause of issues and facilitate change, including Existential Therapy, Relational Therapy, Mindfulness and Parts Work. I view people as a whole, recognizing the connection of mind, body, emotions and soul. The goals are to increase insight and integration of parts of yourself you may avoid or be unaware of, so that you can transform your challenges into wisdom and live a more authentic life. We’ll look at life history and habits, including how your patterns show up in your relationship with me.

I work with adults and adolescents (13+) in person and virtually. Work with adolescents may include work with their caregivers to help facilitate change in the system. I enjoy working with many topics such as: life changes, grief, anxiety, depression, spirituality, highly sensitive people, the search for purpose/identity, relationship patterns, mind-body connection and complex trauma.

All are welcome – regardless of background, beliefs, identity, appearance, etc. I am a trauma-informed practitioner. I do not assign diagnoses or label people.

Outside of work, I love nature, music, movement practices and photography.