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.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Therapist

Marissa Friedman Gilbert is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and therapist based in Austin, TX, specializing in compassionate, client-centered therapy. She supports individuals navigating life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges with empathy and evidence-based approaches.

About Marissa

Marissa is passionate about helping clients cultivate meaningful change and healing by fostering a warm, nonjudgmental, and inclusive therapeutic environment. Marissa’s approach integrates mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and trauma-informed care to support resilience and personal growth.

Her journey into therapy was inspired by a deep desire to help others navigate life’s challenges with greater ease and self-compassion. She values collaboration and tailors therapy to each client’s unique story, strengths, and goals.

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.

Nicole Siegel is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker® and the creator of The Body Compass Method™, based in Austin, Texas and working remotely worldwide.

She works at the intersection of somatic bodywork, nervous system regulation, and relational dynamics — with individuals navigating sexual dysfunction and with couples whose intimacy has lost its charge. Her work is built on a single observation made across hundreds of sessions: that pelvic pain, lost desire, erectile dysfunction, attraction collapse, and emotional over-functioning share the same structural roots. Different symptoms. The same underlying pattern.

The Body Compass Method™ is the framework she developed from that observation. It integrates Sexological Bodywork® with erotic mapping, trauma-informed relational work, and nervous system retraining — structured enough to move things that haven’t moved, embodied enough that the change doesn’t stay conceptual.

Most clients come to her after therapy has helped with everything except this. Many have never worked somatically before.

She is the host of The Nature of Pleasure podcast, creator of the Deep Body Archive™ somatic curriculum, and author of several educational programs including Reset Your Erotic Rhythm — a structured course for couples navigating emotional over-functioning and lost desire.

She works in-person in Austin and remotely with clients worldwide.

• The Sea School of Embodiment 2021 Katie Sarra and Kian de la Cour
• School of Somatic Sexology (CSB)
• The Gottman Institute
• Kimberly Ann Johnson — Somatic work with women, postpartum, and sexuality
• Clean Change Co.
• Institute for Birth Healing
• MotherCircle
• Continuum Doulas
• Hypnobabies (Childbirth Hypnosis)
• Giving Austin Labor Support

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).