Therapists in Austin, TX

My role as a therapist is to facilitate growth and change by assisting my clients in realizing and exploring the primary concerns in their lives. My job is to help them get "unstuck," so that they can choose other ways to live. I offer tools that can help them communicate better, establish necessary and healthy boundaries, manage anger and fear healthily, and eliminate self-destructive and self-harming behavior. Most importantly, I offer assistance in improving the self, which can enrich and increase the joy in my client's lives.

I work with my clients to create an open and collaborative relationship offering a nonjudgmental, supportive environment for growth and change. I am dedicated to creating a safe therapeutic space to explore vulnerability and discover and ignite client strengths, while expanding self-compassion, connectedness, resiliency, and self-awareness. With empathy and encouragement, I will meet you where you are and guide treatment unique to your individual needs and goals. I use an integrative, evidence-based approach to create positive change, incorporating CBT, DBT, mindfulness, shame-resilience theory, and solution-focused therapy.

Are you looking for your best self in relation to your life journey and in relationships with others? Are you stuck, finding life meaningless or struggling with a life transition? I offer work that can take you on a truthful self-exploration and understanding of how our inner child and trauma responses might be keeping us stuck in the present. I also work with those who are experiencing parenting struggles at any life stage of parenting and those seeking better relationships with themselves and others in their life personally and/or professionally.

As a therapist, I am dedicated to the well-being of my clients and their individual paths in therapy. I believe in making therapy a safe place for all individuals to form a good relationship with their personal experiences and interpersonal relationships. I specialize in counseling the South Asian-American community with issues ranging from cultural differences to family disputes, or general anxiety. Even though I specialize in the South Asian-American experience, my experience working with diverse populations allows me to help all types of clients from various backgrounds reach their goals to live happier, fuller lives.

My hope for every client is to obtain the highest benefit possible from counseling. I strive to join with each client at the point they feel most comfortable in order to begin the journey of permanent change. By uncovering the inner strengths that everyone possesses, I work with clients to overcome challenging life obstacles while partnering with them to assure the counseling direction is a perfect fit.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist. I have experience working with individuals of all ages, but particularly love working with children, adolescents, and their families. It is important to me to build a safe therapeutic relationship with my clients, allowing them the space to make lasting change and growth.

Hello, I'm M.L. I believe as humans we all want something similar, to feel normal. We want, desire, and try our best to feel like everyone else. Yet, simultaneously we desire to be unique, special, and individualistic. I believe it is necessary to think of humans as puzzle pieces in order to fulfill both. While the pieces share the same geographical space as well as have the same manufacturer, they are unique and serve varying purposes. Do you belong at the top but are content being a side piece? Are you on the bottom when you were meant to be at the center of it all? Let's collaborate and find out where you belong.

You are a woman who has been devastated by grief over pregnancy loss, infertility, or postpartum depression or anxiety. You desperately want to find someone to talk to about how alone and sad you feel. You feel heartbroken, ashamed, and angry lately. Your world has stopped while everyone else seems to be moving on without you. You find yourself having the same fights with your partner over and over again. Society glamorizes pregnancy and motherhood which can make you feel even more alone and misunderstood. If you see one more pregnancy announcement or social media post about the happiness of motherhood, you might lose it!

My goal as a counselor is to offer a safe space for you to be heard, understood, and respected. In addition to counseling and psychotherapy, I have a background in education and performing arts. I enjoy approaching your unique situation in a creative way, in order to help you to meet your goals while gaining new learning and understanding.

Have you found yourself asking, “how did I get here?” Are you left feeling disappointed or hopeless with your current life circumstances and wondering what steps you need to take to get yourself unstuck? Facing reality head-on and challenging your current thought processes can be a daunting task. Making the initial decision to start therapy is sometimes the most challenging step of the process. This choice can often come with feelings of insecurity, uncertainty and fear. However, it does not have to be this way—you do not have to navigate the complexities of life while in isolation. True, redemptive, lasting healing is possible.

Are you mentally, emotionally, physically, and/or spiritually drained? Insight, hope, positivity, and change are gifts that therapy can provide. Allow me to support you via teletherapy from the comfort of your space. My goal is to help you have the fulfilling life you deserve. I would be honored to be part of this journey of exploration and healing of the mind+body+soul of "SuVida" (your life). I also conduct virtual immigration psychological evaluations.-Visit www.suvidatherapy.com to schedule your appointment. -Jacqueline Ruiz-Lugo, LCSW, C-DBT

Being curious about what makes us feel and act the way we do brings authenticity, creativity, and choices into our lives. Our self-concept and beliefs about the world are often formed in childhood and learned in our primary relationships. Unconsciously, these early experiences guide many of the decisions in our lives. I am passionate about exploring with you, the patterns that may leave you feeling confused, frustrated, or unable to move forward. Together, we will create space to cultivate conscious and caring responses to the inevitable challenging events of life.

I passionate about helping clients find a greater sense of ease when managing life stressors and a greater sense of overall fulfilment in life. I enjoy working with adults who are motivated to find new and more productive ways to move through challenging life transitions, move towards personal growth goals, manage parenting stressors, relationship stressors, and/or work stressors, and decrease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and anger. I have extensive training in anxiety management, mindfulness and breathwork, integrative health, and parenting (including fostering and foster to adopt).

Marcy Musgrave is a Licensed Master Social Worker supervised by Dana Jones, LCSW-S. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Texas A & M University and her Master’s in Social Work from Texas State University. She is a native Texan and has lived in Austin since 2003. She is honored to work at Austin DBT Associates and looks forward to assisting clients with living their fullest lives. Marcy has experience working with homeless adolescents, transgender youth, the geriatric community, and has served as a behavior intervention specialist in the public school setting.

I offer a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive space for you to share what you are going through. In life many experience the challenges of trauma, relationships, and life transitions. All can benefit from the support offered by a therapists and I hope you will allow me the opportunity to support you.

I am passionate about helping children and their parents experience "less stress and more success" in their daily lives. My client-centered approach includes play-based activities, CBT, stress-management and mindfulness training. I offer therapeutic parenting support to help families reach their goals. With over 25 years of experience, I still delight in helping my clients recognize and affirm their unique strengths and find positive, creative solutions to overcome the challenges they face.

Find help for adults with depression, anxiety, stress, PTSD/C-PTSD, childhood/adult trauma, pregnancy/post-partum struggles, relationship concerns, and more. LGBTQIA+/poly-allied! Feeling sad, stressed, anxious, overwhelmed? Not sleeping well? Do your intense moods feel out of control? Do things you used to enjoy no longer matter to you? Have you been through a lot, but never been able to work through it? I know how to help! I provide attachment-based therapy and believe that relationship and authenticity are the two most important therapeutic tools! I am open-minded and easy-going and would love to work with you. Please email me!

If you are experiencing difficulty in communicating with those who matter most to you, you’ve come to the right place. I will provide you with a safe space and a non-judgmental environment. Regardless of how new or old these painful experiences are, I am here to help you and assure quality treatment so that your journey through life will be lighter and a more positive experience. I enjoy working with clients experiencing addiction, shame, grief, trauma, and familial abuse, families coping with new or existing illness, and clients in substance abuse recovery.

My approach is to help clients become free of their emotional overreactions (especially recurring upsets) and break free from the grip of their past wounds. I also work to help identify conditioning and beliefs that my clients have inherited from their families which are NOT consistent with their own core nature. It's all about becoming more authentic. I believe that the more true to ourselves we become, without the old wounds, conditioning, and societal pressures (such as needing to be seen as a nice guy/girl or needing approval from others) then the more whole and joyful we become in our everyday lives.