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.

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.