Austin Therapy for Women
My goal is to not only help you through the difficult time in your life but to also give you the skills that will shift how you approach future challenges. This starts with more awareness of what is going on inside of you, what beliefs are holding you hostage, and slowly meeting the tension that holds you together but also holds you back from the release you need to grow as a person.
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Some of my specializations include:
Stop the Spiral. The emotional spirals that keep us stuck in self-doubt, rumination, and painful places only reinforce old and critical narratives in our head. Guilt spirals, despair spirals, self-doubt spirals. These places are indicative of the relational wounds we experienced in our life. These spirals take us down to old places - and old beliefs - that cause us to lose sight of what is true and possible in our lives. I help you stop spinning, stop beating yourself up, and start anchoring in a state of mind that is more accurate, present, and empowered.
Anxiety is keeping you from yourself and from making progress in your life. You keep running toward things that just fill up time and space but don’t actually fulfill you. Anxiety keeps you from landing more deeply in yourself, getting clear about what you want, and showing up more authentically in your relationships. And it has you tracking everyone else more than yourself. Chasing everyone else’s approval, opinions, and reassurances. Our work together will be focused on helping you face your anxiety, identifying the ways it unconsciously runs your life, and building in the real tools for self-inquiry and self-soothing.
Embodied Connection. I help women begin to inhabit themselves because I believe embodiment is key to connection and secure attachment. As painful as it can be to touch down into our feelings, each time we do so, we land more and more into our bodies. The purpose of emotion is integration - integrating all the parts and becoming whole. When we get better at feeling, we get better at connecting. Whether you are trying to get more connected to yourself, to your children, or to your romantic relationships, your emotion and your body will guide the way.
Daughters of Difficult Parental Relationships: After decades of chronic guilt myself, I help you establish healthy boundaries, find your voice in the relationship, work through guilt, and reducing your sense of responsibility for caretaking your parent. We will take focused steps on setting internal boundaries with your empathy and start shifting the dynamic of connection equaling responsibility for the other.
Ambivalence in relationships. Being uncertain about a relationship is its own form of hell, to be honest. We can’t tell whether the voice in our head is trying to tell us something important or whether we are just spinning out of control. Whatever the reason, we are awash in doubt. This ambivalence is its own form of a spiral. Together we will look at what is happening in your relationship (and in you) so that we can better understand what precedes the ambivalence, what you need to recover from it, and what deeper information it provides us about your history and what you need in your relationships.
Grounded from Within. Anxious Preoccupied attachment styles tend to be excellent trackers. They are aware of what everyone else is feeling and needing and quick to secure connection (via people pleasing) as a way of relieving anxiety. Being so other-focused can mean they have less awareness of their own needs and desires. I help you start tracking your own experience, helping your awareness of your own feeling states become the thing that grounds you in relationship and in your decision-making. Together we will help you track and trust your own experience rather than being caught up in over-thinking, over-questioning, or turned around by the opinions of others.
Intentional Mothering. Being a mother is about standing guard at the gates of trauma, trying to prevent anything from passing through. Inevitably we know some of our stuff is bound to seep in - yet how can we minimize it? I help mothers look at how they are relating to their daughters, where they are getting triggered, and help to teach the skills that will strengthen not only your relationship to your daughters, but also your daughter’s sense of self. I coach you through difficult conflicts with your children, teach you to repair after a disruption, and help you connect most authentically as a mother.