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.
Learn more about how I work here.
Some of my specializations include:
Relationship Challenges: Few things bring up so many challenges in our lives than our close relationships. They tend to activate the places where are most wounded, to emotionally drop us in the place where we need them most, and to cause us the most distress when they are not in a secure place. It is important that we have a space to unpack the needs we have that are not getting met - to understand the essential value of these needs, how important they are to us feeling connected and secure in our lives and our relationships. To explore what happens to us when those needs get dropped - and why - while also learning how to recover from those moments with more grace. And it is essential in our relationships that we also try to understand the other person….how to hold onto their emotional context, rather than the stories and beliefs we can generate about them that only push us away further.
Building Traction in Relationships. The fear of not having the family we long for is very real and each year that passes, it can get more intense. Yet the relationships you have developed in your life have not ‘stuck.’ It’s been hard to build real traction in a relationship. What stands in the way? You may be in a place of healing from your last relationship or a place of wanting to do deeper work on how to show up differently to your next one. This is one of my favorite things to work on with women. To help them get clear about what they want, what they need, and how to stop leaving themselves for other people in relationship. I love helping women work through the self-worth blocks that can make them feel uncomfortable or awkward or not fully present when they are in relationship - which has them center the needs of others versus stay with their own truth.
Confidence + Self-Doubt + Worthiness + Fear. Whether you are wanting to pivot your career or start to really change the direction of your life, it takes a lot of boldness, clarity, and self-trust to do it. And there’s a lot of emotional blocks and spirals and stories that can get in the way of that. Emotional spirals can keep us stuck in self-doubt, questioning everything, chasing perfection, and revisiting painful beliefs that only reinforce old and critical narratives in our head. Whether it’s guilt spirals, despair spirals, or self-doubt spirals, these places are indicative of the relational wounds we have 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. To start making the changes and taking the inspired action that will move the needle forward in your life.
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.
Finding Yourself. When we spend so much time focusing on others, it can be hard to find the space to really slow and down and get more connected to ourselves. We know there are feelings we avoid, things we stuff down, and how adept we are at centering everyone else. But more and more you may feel the call to slow down and give more room for the deeper parts of you that know need your attention. The deeper parts of you that I believe are here to guide you - not only toward healing but deeper fulfillment in your relationships.
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.
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.