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.

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.

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.

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.

Priya is the Founder and Chief Vision Officer of The Nurturing Place. For nearly 20 years Priya has done a wide range of personal growth & development work, driven by a deep personal passion for the subject matter and learnings. She has taken experiential courses with the University of Santa Monica, Landmark, Alison Armstrong, Playing Big, Upbuild, Kim Anami and others. She is an avid consumer of therapy, body work, books, and ancient healing modalities.

Having built two decades of finance and leadership experience, Priya is grateful to now be focusing on her passion and life purpose – The Nurturing Place. TNP is a healing center focused on the whole person: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. It is her greatest honor and joy to serve the world in this way.

Priya is a graduate of the University of Santa Monica, Goizueta Business School at Emory University and Blair Academy.