Austin Therapy for Women
Some areas of focus:
Relationship Difficulties: You keep having the same fight with your partner. You leave conversations feeling hurt, emotionally dropped, and misunderstood. Part of you knows you’re not showing up how you want to either. Sometimes you question if you are being too sensitive or too over-reactive. I help you see exactly what’s happening underneath these patterns, what’s yours and what isn’t, so you can understand yourself, and show up in your relationship in a way that stops the cycle and supports connection.
Overwhelming Emotions: Your emotions can feel like they come out of nowhere. One minute you’re fine - next you’re overwhelmed, tearful, or shutting down. And once strong feelings get a hold of you, it can be hard to recover or shift out of an emotional state. You might try to quickly reassure the feelings as a way of soothing them and keeping them down, but the lack of emotional release can lead to even more tension, pressure, and stress. What these feelings really need is a safe space where they can be expressed and genuinely supported. When we let our emotions flow through us more readily, they will lead the way to insight, clarity, healing, and the next right step in your life.
Challenges While Dating: You’re not struggling with dating because you ‘haven’t met the right guy.’ You’re struggling because you’re not fully showing up as yourself. You are following his lead and adjusting yourself to his level of emotional availability. You tend to hold back your own feelings and minimize your own needs but the more you do that, the more you lose - not only your personal power in that moment - but also your own availability to truly connect. I help you stop leaving yourself and start leading with your truth.
Lowering Anxiety and Stress: You don’t always call it anxiety. You just know you can’t fully relax. You’re high-functioning - but underneath, you feel on edge, responsible for everything, and never fully at ease. You’re constantly in your head, overthinking everything, and worrying. You are tracking everyone around you more than you track yourself. And on the outside while it might look like you have it all together…inside, it feels like a lot. Therapy is an opportunity to slow down, sit with yourself, and start to meet all of your feelings (with my active support) that keep you in overdrive. I help you release the emotions that tend to live beneath the anxiety, rewrite the stories that feed the stress, and help you start to feel calmer, clearer, and more at home in yourself.
Stuck in Old Patterns: It's not easy to admit when we feel stuck or unhappy. But that acknowledgment is one of the biggest steps we can take because things always start to shift when we start telling the truth, naming what’s real, and saying how we really feel. Something inside you is ready for a shift, ready for a change, and you are tired of fear, self-doubt, and old patterns getting in the way. I help you clear out the past and make sense of it, but I also help you start wiring in new ways of being - letting truer sides of yourself -that have been afraid and dormant for too long - finally take the lead.
Childhood Experiences + Trauma: Taking a deeper inventory of the experiences we’ve had - and the impact they had on us - allows us to bring a more awake, aware, and evolved version of us forward in all of our relationships. One of my favorite gifts to offer people is the experience of feeling seen and known for what you have lived through, what you have survived, what you have overcome, and providing a deeply safe space for you to process and heal. I offer you my deepest presence and care as you unfold, as you touch down, as you begin to inhabit yourself more fully.
Difficult Family Relationships: Your relationship with a family member (a parent, a sibling) still has a hold on you. You feel guilt setting boundaries. You feel responsible for their emotions. And no matter how old you are, you still get pulled back into the same painful dynamics. I help you find your voice, find your truth, and set clear boundaries in the relationship. But I also go beyond that. I help you build internal boundaries within yourself that help you shift out of the role you keep playing in the dynamic and finally stop the “leak” of your confidence and self-assuredness.
Motherhood: Motherhood presents many different phases and stages that can stir up strong feelings in us - whether we have a newborn or a teenager. There is no way we can arrive into any of these phases of motherhood fully prepared. Mothering will require growth on our part to meet the needs of our children as they present themselves. A growth mindset is fundamental -“I am here to grow alongside my child, to understand their needs, to understand my own needs, and to rise to meet them both.”