Online therapy in Texas.

Texas's rapid growth, particularly in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, has created a specific kind of professional pressure. Many of the adults I work with here navigate demanding careers in tech, energy, healthcare, and corporate environments, high performance expectations, and the private exhaustion that comes with holding a lot together on the outside while feeling stuck, disconnected, or depleted on the inside.

For Texans in more rural areas, the challenge is different but equally real: access to specialized care has historically been limited. Texas ranks among the states with the fewest mental health providers per capita, and finding a therapist with depth in trauma and integrative modalities often means a long drive or a long waitlist. Telehealth removes both barriers — Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, El Paso, Lubbock, or anywhere across the state's 268,000 square miles.

Telehealth therapy in Texas requires the therapist to hold an active license in the state where the client is physically located at the time of the session. I hold an active LCSW credential issued by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners. As a therapist based in Austin, I'm accountable to the Texas licensing board and familiar with the practical landscape of mental health care in the state — what access has historically looked like, where the gaps are, and what specialized private practice can offer that the broader system often can't.

If you live in Texas but travel regularly to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or Florida, you can continue sessions without interruption while in those states. I hold an active LCSW in all four.

Online therapy for Texas residents works the same way as in-person therapy, with one difference: you connect via a secure video platform instead of traveling to an office. You receive a unique session link by email before each appointment and join from any private space in Texas with a stable internet connection.

The state covers over 268,000 square miles. For many people outside the major metros, driving to a specialist means 90 minutes each way; for residents of Austin, Houston, and Dallas, traffic alone makes consistent weekly appointments hard to sustain. Online therapy removes both barriers. Many clients find that attending from a familiar environment actually increases how open they feel compared to a waiting room.

Therapy here addresses a wide range of concerns, with particular depth in complex trauma and attachment wounds, anxiety, depression and chronic low mood, burnout, substance use and co-occurring conditions through a harm-reduction lens, relational stress, identity concerns, cultural conflict, and stressful life transitions. Much of what drives these patterns isn't primarily cognitive.

Feeling like your body is working against you, reacting automatically in ways you don't fully understand, or struggling to regulate emotions despite knowing what should help — these are all signals that the work needs to address the nervous system, not just the thought patterns sitting on top of it.

My approach is integrative, drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing, psychodynamic and attachment-informed therapy, CBT, DBT, REBT, ACT, exposure therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. As an Austin-based therapist, I work regularly with clients whose pattern is high performance on the outside and private exhaustion underneath — the profile Austin's tech and creative industries produce frequently: capable, driven adults who've optimized everything except their own inner experience.

I'm a second-year student at Somatic Experiencing International, a multi-year training in body-based trauma resolution developed by Dr. Peter Levine, and have completed MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training.

Alchemy Psychotherapy is a private-pay, out-of-network practice. A reduced fee is available in limited circumstances based on financial need and current caseload. I do not bill insurance directly, but I provide a Superbill on the first of each month for clients with out-of-network mental health benefits, and HSA and FSA cards are accepted. Under the No Surprises Act, you have the right to a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges before treatment begins.

Call the number on the back of your insurance card and ask specifically about out-of-network mental health benefits and reimbursement rates for LCSW services before starting.