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

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.

Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Integrative Practitioner

& Founder @ Flourish! Mindful Psychotherapy & Nutrition

For me, the best part of being a therapist is watching clients develop a sense of ease and blossom into their most authentic and beautiful selves. I do my best to create a judgment-free space so everyone feels comfortable, heard and safe to explore memories, experiences, thoughts, stressors, and/or behaviors.

My specialty is treating clients who have symptoms of anxiety, depression, mood disorders as well as those experiencing chronic stress and challenges in their relationships. I see these clients as one whole person which means I do not buy into labels / diagnoses or that the brain is solely responsible for their suffering.

I hold a BSW and MSSW from the University of Texas at Austin and certifications as a Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider and Kundalini Yoga Teacher. I find mindfulness, interpersonal neurobiology (IPBNB), PolyVagal and Attachment theories, somatic experiencing, functional nutrition and integrative medicine endlessly fascinating and am happy to share any or all of these models and tools with you to help you feel healed and nourished. The common thread connecting all I do is the vagus nerve and I do my best to stay on the cutting edge of science and treatment for this all important multi-branched nerve that serves as the information superhighway of the Gut-Brain Axis.

I am a board approved LCSW Supervisor in Texas and also an LCSW in Colorado.

When I am not working or learning I love to cook, take long walks with my pups, hang at the beach, indulge in comedy that makes me laugh so much my cheeks hurt and practice meditation and Kundalini yoga nearly everyday.

Flourish! is open for video and phone services during COVID-19 pandemic for established and new clients.

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.

flourish! Is a group practice offering integrative services for mental health with the goal of helping clients achieve mindful wellness. Our mindfulness-based services for psychotherapy, nutrition, and educational classes / webinars are affordable, evidence-based and all of our practitioners weave tenets of mindfulness into their practice as we believe when we are truly present with you, we can become a trusted source for empathy, compassion and guidance.

We treat all of our clients through a holistic lens which means we see you as a person experiencing challenging symptoms rather than a broken brain with diagnosis. Our integrative approach to mindful wellness offers our clients the opportunity to learn, process, and heal at their own pace while offering access to complimentary services to help them achieve optimal health without pharmaceuticals

Flourish! is open for video and phone services during COVID-19 pandemic

Psychotherapist @ ElevateTherapyWellness.com

Grace’s approach to therapy is nurturing and attentive. She is committed to holistic healing and has found the healing journey to include mindfulness, meditation, yoga, talk therapy, and anything in between.

She has a passion for working with people who want to find freedom from food and body image anxieties. She works with people who are wanting to find a balance between their desires to follow strict guidelines with health and their desire to find health intuitively.

Grace obtained her master’s degree from Southern Methodist University. She believes strongly in the blend of evidence and alternative-based approaches to healing.

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

Jessie Wells, LCSW, INHC is a psychotherapist, integrative nutrition coach, and an educator. Her mission is to support those around her to live in abundant wellness. She believes that it is in the context of relationship that change, wholeness, and life happen.
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Jessie’s passion is the intersection of science, relationships, wellness, and spirituality. Her clinical training emphasized interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, mindfulness, body based trauma techniques, and holistic nutrition. She has professional experience in hospital, non-profit, and outpatient mental health organizations. Her passion for wellness and counseling drew her to the social work field where she specialized in trauma, cognitive behavioral therapy, family dynamics, and she became a self-identified neuroscience junky. Jessie loves the brain and frequently incorporates scientific topics into her practice. She encourages her clients with research about neurogenesis, rewiring, and neuro anatomy to help them understand that their brains, relationships, and life can change for the better.

Throughout her time in clinical practice, Jessie underwent additional training to become a Trust Based Relational Intervention Practitioner (TBRI), to be Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing trained (EMDR), and then she completed a 12 month Nutrition Coaching program with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. These programs are central to her work with clients.

Jessie is one who believes that personal experience is often the best education. Her own wellness journeys of healing from untreated celiac disease and other injuries bring a wealth of knowledge, insight, and empathy to individuals who are fighting to live life more abundantly. Jessie’s dream of aligning her business, mental health, and wellness backgrounds was realized with the launch of her Integrative Brain and Mental Health organization. She feels immensely honored to walk with individuals for a short period in their journey as she lives out her mission of supporting change makers as they live out their dreams and potential.
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Jessie loves learning from others who are specialists in their fields and enjoys strong collaborative relationships with various subject matter experts. She offers regular workshops and delivers presentations to diverse audiences including organizations, business executives, religious groups, non-profits, and health professionals.

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.”

Owner/Operator of South Wind Equestrian Center

Equine Experiences and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

Kelly Jones, owner and founder of South Wind Equestrian Center established the ranch in the Texas Hill Country in 1999. Kelly experienced her first horse as a 2- year old on her great grandfather’s farm outside Fort Worth and as soon as she could, began working at a stable, earning riding lessons. After graduating from Texas Tech University with a degree in Marketing, Kelly worked in the corporate world in the retail industry, was a stay-at-home-mom for 10 years, then rejoined the work force in 2007 while still running the ranch business. In 2013, after attending a Natural Lifemanship training and interning at a trauma-focused equine assisted psychotherapy facility for 7 months, Kelly decided to devote herself full time to the ranch and developed an equine-focused program in which humans learned amazing principles about themselves along with their knowledge of horses.

Today Kelly is an equine professional, specializing in relationship work with horses and humans, focusing on bringing attunement both to self and to others through allowing the horses to teach and guide us through re-connecting with personal power, clear communication, healthy boundaries and accessing creativity and intuition. Kelly currently serves as an Equine Professional on multiple therapy teams utilizing the Natural Lifemanship modality of equine assisted psychotherapy with over 750 hours of working with clients, is a facilitator of team building workshops and retreats, was a riding instructor for 18 years, owns and manages of South Wind Equestrian Center, coaches one-on-one in equine-assisted learning and is an expert on horse behavior.

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.

Psychotherapist and co-founder of Evolve Therapy

Marci loves being a therapist. Like, really. She finds her role both intellectually stimulating and artistic. She thinks a deep, authentic connection serves as a platform to boost thriving– for both her clients and herself. Due to this belief, Marci intentionally creates an atmosphere within her office of being down-to-earth and fully engaged/receptive.  She has a passion for working with creative intellectuals who have full capacity to make a thriving life, yet are feeling stuck. These people intellectually know their abilities, but can’t get past the belief that they are worthy of a life that is small. Additionally, Marci also enjoys working with chronic illness and dying, helping those suffering from an isolating experience feel less alone.

She obtained her master’s degree at Southern Methodist University and is the co-founder of Evolve therapy. She and her close friend, Grace, created Evolve in order to provide a therapeutic space where the whole person is considered when healing– mind, body, and spirit.

LCSW, Psychotherapist @ Flourish! Psychotherapy + Nutrition

I am so excited to be practicing mindfulness and self-compassion based therapy at Flourish! after taking a few years off to be with my family. I particularly enjoy working with women, adolescents, and new parents and utilizing attachment theory, self-compassion and mindfulness based interventions for symptoms of anxiety, depression, relationship challenges and attention issues. I also love facilitating the Mindfulness Skill Development group classes at Flourish! to help clients cultivate mindful awareness and assisting them in learning how to meditate and develop coping mechanisms. and tools for our stressful modern world.

My educational background includes a MSW University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Latin American Studies and Spanish from UNC-Chapel Hill. Also, I have been studying Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), insight oriented meditation, self compassion, yoga and various forms of expressive/movement based therapies for both personal and professional development during the past 12 years. Mindfulness, self-compassion, and meditation have changed my life, and I am humbled and honored to share these skills with Flourish! clients.

Founder / Director / Instigator @ Whole Movement Center

Specialties: Infant Developmental Movement & Somatic Psychotherapy & Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy

MY CERTIFICATIONS & BACKGROUND:

Before becoming a movement therapist and psychotherapist, I was a professional dancer, choreographer, and theater artist who founded a dance company and directed a yoga and bodywork studio.

I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with a specialty in development and Pre and Perinatal Birth Attachment Therapy. I also have a Master’s in Counseling Psychology.

My certifications include:

Body Mind Centering® Practitioner
Licensed Professional Counselor
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist w/ the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association
Infant Developmental Movement Educator®
Certified Pre and Perinatal Birth Attachment Practitioner
Somatic Experiencing provider
Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapist
Hatha Yoga Teacher for all ages
Advanced Bodywork Therapist
Skinner Releasing Dance Technique® Educator
I draw from all of these disciplines to work with any person who wants to overcome pain or restricted movement, seek recovery from trauma or stress, or become more fully connected with their own body and authentic self.

I also specialize in attachment, birth, birth trauma, adoption, developmental, and prenatal and perinatal issues. I am passionate about supporting and working with individuals and families with children with special needs.

President, Austin PsychCare

Michelle Magid is the founder and president of Austin PsychCare, a collaborative group of psychiatrists and nurse practitioners that focus on both chemical AND environmental factors that contribute to not feeling well.

In addition to being experts in pharmacology, Dr. Magid and her colleagues focus on the 4 Domains of wellness – Spiritual, Emotional, Physical, and Social. Within these domains, Austin PsychCare places emphasis on the following 7 action items: Increased movement/exercise, Hydration, A diet that feels good for YOU, Social rhythm, Healthy sleep, Good dental hygiene, and Reduced use in drugs, alcohol, smoking.

The Austin Psychcare providers have spent their entire careers becoming experts in both medicine and psychotherapy.

If you are struggling, we will partner with you to get you to a better place. And if you are already doing well, we offer psychotherapy to those who want to understand themselves better, and executive coaching to those who want to up their game.

We provide a one stop-shop to take care of all your mental health needs.

Associate Psychotherapist @ Flourish! Psychotherapy + Nutrition

My work focuses on walking alongside adult survivors of childhood abuse, domestic/sexual violence, and couples/families experiencing conflictual relationships. I have great capacity for holding space, hope, and joy during stressful seasons. I’m not scared of what you’re experiencing and I’ll be there to gently encourage the innate desire to heal that brought you to this work. We are walking the resilient path and I believe in your ability to change and heal. It’s vital that you are the author of your own healing.

I am not here fix nor judge you. I am here to create and hold space for you. I am here to assist you in connecting with yourself, releasing what you no longer want to carry, and tapping into your innate capacity to heal and change your life.

My approach includes mindfulness, somatic therapy, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and IFS (Internal Family Systems) perspectives and sometimes use other processing methods to stimulate change such as ETT, movement, sound and art. I hold a M.A. in Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary (with honors) as well as Ph.D. in Medical Geography (a multidisciplinary field at the cross-section of socioe-environment, public health, and epidemiology) from Texas A&M and am supervised by Dr. Linda Marten, LPC-S.

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.