Integrative Psychotherapist & Relationship Counselor @ Head + Heart Integrative Psychotherapy

Are you ready to navigate the challenges of being human with greater resilience? As an integrative psychotherapist and relationship counselor, I specialize in supporting adults, couples, and groups to heal relationships on all levels. Including their relationships with stress, chronic illness/pain, family of origin issues, and trauma.

Combining research-informed practices with revolutionary brain + relationship science, I work from an integrative “head + heart” approach that incorporates mind, body, and spirit to help you increase resilience, release emotional baggage, and ignite holistic healing. Hence, the name of my practice – Head + Heart Integrative Psychotherapy. I believe that only by working from a holistic perspective can we truly experience deep healing and lasting change.

My practice of psychotherapy and counseling integrates relationship science (Attachment Theory, Systems Theory, Gottman Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and Relational Life Therapy), neuroscience (Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, Somatic therapy, EMDR therapy, depth psychology and parts work, and trauma-informed interventions.

I am now accepting new clients for secure online therapy for Texas residents and offer free 15 min phone consults. You can learn more about me and my practice at www.headandheart-therapy.com

Spiritual Director, LCSW, Reiki practitioner @ Eye of the Heart

Specialty: anxiety, trauma, spirituality, relationships

In counseling her clients, Alisa’s desire is to facilitate transformation, healing, and growth toward wholeness. She encourages, and often challenges, her clients to discover and listen to all aspects of self, enabling more genuine expression and healthier relationships. Alisa is able to create a physical and emotional space that is warm, accepting, and non-judgmental for this work to occur. Using her gifts of compassion and intuition, she facilitates the client’s healing and growth process.

In living her own life, Alisa practices the same philosophies she shares with her clients. She loves animals and nature, and she enjoys trail hiking. Her dog, Booker, is an integral part of the work of Eye of the Heart!! Alisa writes a blog, and has written several poetry pieces. She creates art from broken pieces of tile, pottery, and rock – what we call “”mosaic.”” She is currently working on a lotus flower in her shower. She leads a contemplative lifestyle, with a focus on prayer/meditation, relationship, and creativity.

Licensed Professional Counselor @ Amy Serafin Counseling, LLC

“Online psychotherapy for Texans with difficult family dynamics and histories.”

Amy Serafin Counseling is based in Austin and provides services throughout Texas.

I am a dedicated Licensed Professional Counselor, perpetually curious about your stories and perspectives. I don’t operate with a “one size-fits all” or “cookie-cutter” approach to therapy. I’ll meet you where you are, without judgement or agenda.

As your compassionate and empathetic ally, we will explore your emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations to help you gain deeper self-awareness and insight into the relationship with yourself and others.

This work can lead to greater life balance, an ability to hold stronger boundaries, and a deeper sense of worth and lovability.

My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, body positive, trauma sensitive, culturally sensitive (related to race, ethnicity, regional identity, religion, etc.) sex-positive, and mindful of neurodivergencies and abilities.

AmySerafinCounseling.com

Free 15 minute consultations!

To get in touch and get started, please visit: AmySerafinCounseling.com

Holistic Psychotherapist

I am a holistic psychotherapist and specialize in individual and couples therapy with adults experiencing discord from issues including chronic stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, marital or family problems, relational conflict, and inertia or feeling stuck.

I am deeply informed by eastern and western approaches, primarily yoga therapy, mindfulness, Hakomi, EMDR, and interpersonal neurobiology. I also specialize in working with the 20% of the population with high sensory processing sensitivity, otherwise known as Highly Sensitive People.

Board Certified Coach and Licensed Counselor @ Buck Dodson Inc

Whole Person Life Coaching, Gay & Bisexual Men’s Life Design, Individual and Relationship Counseling

My personal development journey began more than 25 years ago, and I’ve spent the last 15 of those in the life growth business, helping the people I serve create the lives and relationships they want. As a licensed psychotherapist, board certified life coach and innovative philanthropy leader, I spend my days having energizing conversations that generate fresh insights, new mindsets, radical shifts, and big connections. I work with a diverse client base including couples, creative entrepreneurs, executives, and artists, all of whom are inspired to build healthy, engaged lives fueled by their dreams and filled with joy, purpose, loving relationships, and rewarding careers.

I have a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California and had thriving private practices in Los Angeles and Chicago prior to returning to my native Texas. I have specialized training in Relationship Counseling, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Presence-Based Coaching, Mindful Self-Compassion, and Contemplative Dance so I love integrating elements of all of those when I work with clients. Although I work with a variety of clients, I specialize in holistic coaching and counseling with gay and bisexual men, creatives struggling with perfectionism and women looking to show up more fully as leaders in their own lives.

On a personal note, I’m a native Texan (yes, Buck is my real name!), and I moved back to Austin in 2013. I love exploring all things wellness, creating as an Enneagram 4 and innovating as a Human Design Manifestor. I also love to chill on Lake Travis or on a beautiful beach every chance I get. I also love a good nap and hanging out with Goldie Hawn (my Golden Retriever).

I’m thrilled to be part of a vibrant community of like-minded health and wellness professionals and look forward to supporting each other’s work!

Owner @ AdvocATX

Certified Private Patient Advocate in Austin, Texas.

As a Board Certified Patient Advocate, my team and I

• Will provide you with valuable information to make informed decisions
• Will support your choices
• Will help to bring your family together on major medical decisions
• Will help find you or your loved one the best quality care possible

Dave Braham founded Sound Mind Austin to provide a psycho-therapeutic resource to guide the clients journey toward healthy relationships, sound minds, and peak on-stage performances. His primary clinical focus integrates issues related to peak performance, trauma, healing, gender violence, positive masculinity, and a drive to bridge the muse of music and mental health.

Dave is a trauma-informed licensed clinical psychotherapist (MS, LMFT-S, TX #291392) and utilizes techniques to deepen somatic comfort and strengthen mindfulness. These practices, alongside advanced applications in EMDR, Clinical Hypnosis, Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy, and Somatic Sound Therapy, hold the power to strengthen progress, grow comfort, and heal trauma.

Authenticity, compassion, and respect are fundamental to his interactions with clients. Dave is dedicated to empowering systems, families, couples, and individuals to strengthen relationships, resolve troubling issues, achieve personal well-being, and peak their performance goals.

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

My name is Joseph Gorordo and I am the Vice President of Business Development at Recovery Unplugged. I am also a therapist, husband, and proud father to three amazing kids!

Shortly after graduating from high school in Laredo, TX, I found myself hopelessly addicted to alcohol and drugs. I spent the following six years using IV heroin and bouncing from treatment center to treatment center, never staying sober for more than a few days. On July 21st, 2008 I was removed from drugs for the last time and have been 100% sober from all mind altering substances ever since! I’ve dedicated the majority of my time in recovery to helping others find their freedom from addiction and am proud to have continued that work for the last 3 years with Recovery Unplugged.

Recovery Unplugged is a completely unique approach to addiction treatment. We use the healing power of music alongside traditional interventions to help our clients reconnect with their emotions, their true selves, and the world around them.

I am truly blessed to lead the life I live today and have the amazing privilege of watching people recover!

I would love to connect with other helpers in this group to build collaborative relationships and help others to recover!

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.”

Personalized Comprehensive Care
Functional Medicine & Integrative Nutrition
Women’s Coaching

Julie Freeman & Denise Cordero work together to provide “Intrinsic Wellness” services at JulieFreeman.net

Intrinsic Wellness was born out of Julie and Denise’s shared visions to bridge the best of physical medicine and energy medicine, both western and eastern, ancient and modern. It is with a deep understanding that in doing so, we are able to create true wellness and profound transformation for our clients beyond health as most people know it. Our collective experiences, both personally and professionally in the world of health and well-being feels like the perfect synergy to achieve this. We use a combination of formal education, apprenticeships and a deep listening to Spirit as it guides and informs us on how to connect with and support each precious person in our presence.

JulieFreeman.net

Services include:

*Visit JulieFreeman.net/ to learn more.

Medical Nutrition Therapy

an insurance-based option for those who are bound to using their insurance for nutritional therapies.

Weigh Less

A six-month comprehensive program that includes personalized assessment, meal planning, supplementation and a weekly group meeting for ongoing learning and support.

Women’s Optimal Health

a deep dive into the challenges that women face with regard to the interaction of various hormonal states, genetics, environmental, lifestyle and stress factors.

Complete Wellness

for anyone ready to up-level in all areas – mind, body, soul […] In this model, we will address genetics from a biological perspective, assess functional labs, create a personalized supplement and menu plan based upon this information.

Soul Mentoring Program Reconnection Coaching

[Step] more fully into your innate truth and purpose. By coming back to center and looking inward, we begin to tap into an infinite source of wisdom. […] we work towards wholeness on all levels: the physical level, the mental level and the energetic level with the guide of the natural healing arts.

LPC-A

Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate

I help adults & teens live fuller, more authentic lives. The complexities of life can weigh on us, affecting our energy & perspectives. Maybe you have gone through some painful or challenging experiences. A part of you is calling for something different & that brought you here now. Many issues come from low self-worth, or from losing trust in our inner voice after painful experiences. However, this wisdom is always inside us & will continue to create “symptoms” & “problems” in our life in an attempt to get our attention. Trust that feeling the desire to change a pattern is a sign you’re ready for the challenge required.

With self-compassion, we see that we did the best we could at the time. With resilience, we move out of stagnation & turn our experiences into growing opportunities. This is how we transform our pain into wisdom & strength.

Some areas of focus:

• self-worth, depression,
• reconnecting to your intuition,
• spiritual journeys,
• family of origin, identity,
• life transitions,
• empaths/intuitives/highly sensitive people,
• grief, over-thinkers who need help feeling, trauma,
• integrating psychedelics or other transformative experiences,
• “canaries in the coal mine,”
• those who feel misunderstood,
• disruptors to the status quo… & more.

My approach is heart-centered, relational & trauma-informed. I meet you where you are by combining various approaches. I primarily use Psychodynamic theory, Mindfulness, IFS/Parts work, & Attachment theory.

Most importantly, I focus on authentically connecting with you.

I’m down to earth, patient & willing to challenge you as well.

Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor
@ Kristin Shanahan Therapy

Counseling, the way I see it, is a process of self-discovery and exploration which requires an open mind, patience and collaboration between the counselor and client.

My name is Kristin Shanahan and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor. I support people in their desire to better understand themselves, often during times of depression, anxiety and life transitions. In a safe, nurturing environment we explore and discover your patterns of behavior and how they may hinder you from living a meaningful life.

In the therapy room, people experience me as relaxed, direct, authentic, dedicated, curious and open to laughter. It is my belief that with compassion and courage, we can experience a greater sense of well-being.

Laura Sanders, M.A, LPC-A, LMT
Supervised by Karen Breeding, LPC-S

Laura is a licensed counselor, author, meditation teacher, and bodyworker practicing mind-body psychology and holistic healing in Austin. She operates Cosmic Heart Counseling. She is an EMDR trained therapist specializing in trauma resolution for highly sensitive people and survivors of narcissistic abuse.

Her book “Supernatural Recovery” guides the reader through a 12 step alternative for addiction and nervous system recovery. She works with highly sensitive people, gifted and talented children, and with pregnant or postpartum women. She has led meditation and self-care workshops, nervous system recovery classes, and 12 step alternative meetings all over Austin. She is passionate about working with other sensitives, healers, empaths, mothers, and new parents.

Founder & CEO @ WellMarkt

Yoga, Coaching, Ayurveda

Lily’s personal mission is to connect people with the best versions of their vital selves. Knowing that the most powerful key to wellness comes from within, Lily uses a unique combination of mind-body practice, coaching, and Ayurveda, to ignite the body’s innate intelligence.

She is a professional coach and writer with two decades of nonprofit management experience (primarily academic medicine–biomedical research, healthcare delivery systems and health promotion interventions, and public health policy). Motivated by the recognition that our lifestyle largely influences our state of wellness, she offers personalized coaching interventions and is also the Founder and CEO of WellMarkt, a website and social impact company connecting people with holistic and complementary health providers and networks in their local communities, and beyond.

Lily holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business. Lily completed professional coach training through Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance and teaches individual and group sessions. Further, she is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor intern and is completing a National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA)-Certified Ayurveda Practitioner course of study.

She is a New Yorker at heart living in the very lovable city of Austin, Texas. In her spare time, she enjoys reading way too many books simultaneously, fitness training and hiking, and hanging out with her daughter Sophie, husband Jed, and Labraheeler Casey.

Holistic Mental Health Counseling

I am an LPC-Associate trained in both holistic and evidence-based therapeutic modalities, supervised by Sarah Arnold, LPC-S. I love to utilize an integrative approach tailored to each individual client.

My main modality is person-centered talk therapy, which is grounded in curiosity, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. This approach is collaborative and deeply empowering. While insta-therapy often encourages you to seek a safe space, I believe in the importance of creating a brave space – one that encourages growth, acceptance, and resilience. I also love to incorporate more holistic approaches to mental and emotional wellness, including diet and nutrition, movement, sleep hygiene, work-life balance, and spirituality.

My role is to help you:

• develop a deeper understanding of yourself,
• find the courage to lean into difficulty and let yourself be transformed by it
• and take the steps necessary to lead a life you’re excited about living.

I specialize in working with young adults who have been experiencing difficulty with depression, anxiety, managing stress, navigating challenging circumstances, poor self-esteem, people-pleasing, codependency, perfectionism, and academic pressure. I am also passionate about working with artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and deep thinkers who have been feeling creatively blocked, stagnant, or uninspired. I love having philosophical conversations where we explore the tough existential questions.

Because I am trained in holistic approaches and health coaching, many clients also seek my help in finding ways to improve their mental health without the use of pharmaceuticals, if possible. While I am not at all against medication and am happy to help clients in adhering to their medication regimen, I understand that many people have reservations about side effects or choose not to seek help from the pharmaceutical industry. I am happy to provide hope, support, and psychoeducation about ways to boost mental wellness using holistic strategies.

Hi there! I am Mallory Beckwith, LPC-A supervised by Sarah Arnold, LPC-S. Welcome to my profile! I am a therapist who works with adults dealing with depression, anxiety, addiction, bipolar disorder, and life transitions. I recently opened up my own private practice, Therapy with Mallory, and see all of my clients virtually.

I wholeheartedly believe that increasing your awareness is key to managing emotions, thinking more clearly, and acting from a place of intention rather than impulse. I always address my client’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs in sessions. I primarily use mindfulness during sessions to help my clients get grounded and present, and also CBT to address unhelpful thinking patterns that can cause stress, anxiety, depression, and feelings of being overwhelmed. I strongly believe everyone deserves a chance to heal so they can live a life with more clarity, joy, and purpose.

Feel free to reach out if you would like to schedule a 15 minute phone consultation or if you would like to connect.

I wish you the best on your journey.

Megan VanMeter, MA, LPC-AT/S, ATR-BC

Licensed Professional Counselor – Art Therapist

Why burn out when you can burn bright? I provide online art therapy to helping professionals who identify with burnout in Austin and the Lone Star State.

Being a helping professional means there’s a heavy emotional workload in your daily endeavors.  You hear intense stories and see intense things.  These put you at risk for compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.

And then there’s burnout.  Burnout takes those other conditions and sends them into the perfect storm via unrealistic administrative burdens, unreasonable operating guidelines, and unsustainable working conditions.  The end result is a darkening of mood and motivation.

Burnout is both a professional and personal trauma. It eclipses all aspects of your life, making you vulnerable to problems with others and problems with yourself.  But burnout doesn’t have to be the end of your relationships and your career.

I’m Megan, a board-certified registered art therapist and Texas licensed professional counselor with an art therapy specialization, and I first began offering support to helping professionals struggling with burnout in 2013.  In 2021 I established a full-time private practice to fill the void among clinicians who are prepared to treat burnout.  Burnout has a lot in common with anxiety and depression but has a completely different origin, so it requires a different approach.

I’ve helped professionals like you rise from the ashes of burnout through creative mental activity. Art therapy is one of psychotherapy’s original embodied and experiential professions, and it recruits a person’s eyes and hands (visual perception and somatosensory processing) to rouse and engage creative mental activity at physical, emotional, and intellectual levels.  The end result is an integrated you, as your nervous system learns to achieve harmony and flow between your inner world and the world around you.

Are you tired of the burnout-induced clash between what’s happening inside you and what’s expected of you in your professional role? Then please visit MeganVanMeter.com to schedule a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation and learn more about how art therapy can help you re-create what burnout has destroyed.

I’m happy to share my light with you; you don’t have to face burnout alone in the dark.

Hello everyone, my name is Nicole Williams and I am so excited to be part of the Austin Wellness Collaborative! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 8 years’ experience in counseling and over 20 years’ experience in working with children, teens and families as an educator, school counselor, Social Emotional Learning teacher, trainer and consultant.

In my practice I specialize in supporting individuals (children, teens, adults) and families with anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, and chronic illness. Being a chronic illness warrior myself, I understand the many different challenges that one faces with a chronic condition or diagnosis. I am passionate about helping others integrate a life of joy and connection while managing an illness., with care, wisdom, humor, and just a little bit of rebellion. There is so much power in being heard, seen, understood and believed, for both the individual and their loved ones who are also impacted.

When working with clients I believe in a whole-body approach, meaning looking at how to help them understand their nervous system, and practicing tools such as TF-CBT, Guided Imagery, Meditation, Trauma-Informed Yoga, and EFT (Tapping) to help regulate their system. I also use traditional talk therapy along with Psychodrama, and CBT relational care to help support healing and change.

When I am not at my practice I love to be out in nature; hiking, camping, paddle boarding, you name it, if it is outside, then I am there! I am also a foster fur mommy to rescue pit bulls (pibbles as we call them if they are puppies). If I had a bigger house, I would fail at fostering more often than finding a home for them, I can be a complete pushover with sad puppy eyes!

When my house is empty of furry fosters I love to travel, especially volunteer travel. My favorite volunteer trip was to Borneo where I worked with an orangutan rehabilitation and release center by day and taught the children in the village at night.

While I know the challenges of living with a life altering illness, I also know the profound joy of integrating things that you love in new ways to a life after the diagnosis. I would love to help others who are facing this same challenge. For more information on my practice or to learn of any upcoming workshops and presentations on the link between Trauma, and Chronic Health Conditions, please visit my website (link below).

Individual, Couples, and Group Counseling for Adults
@ Austin Professional Counseling

Specializes in: Trauma healing, mindfulness, spirituality, eating psychology, coaching

I am a licensed professional counselor intern inspired to serve others in working through anxiety, depression, loss, life transitions, and unresolved trauma. I believe that we naturally move towards wholeness, and in therapy we can discover what’s in the way and explore it with curiosity and kindness. I am trained in the latest research in neuroscience as well as older wisdom from the field. Supervised by Sunny Lansdale, LPC-S.