Therapy in Austin.

Austin's growth has produced a particular kind of professional: capable, well compensated, working in tech or startups or somewhere in the orbit around them, and quietly running on empty. Many of the adults I work with here are managing demanding roles and high performance expectations while privately feeling stuck, flattened, or disconnected from the life the work was supposed to make possible. That gap between how things look and how they feel is usually what finally prompts the call.

There is also something specific about a city this full of transplants. A large share of the people I see in Austin moved here in the last few years for a job, a relationship, or a reset. They are doing well by external measures and have almost nobody nearby who knew them before the move. That isolation is not an incidental detail. It changes how burnout, anxiety, and complex trauma present, and it tends to delay people asking for help by a year or more.

I do not keep a full-time office in Austin. Nearly all of my clinical work happens over secure, HIPAA-compliant video, and for most adults that is genuinely the better option rather than a compromise: no crossing the city at rush hour, no sitting on Mopac or I-35 to make a 45-minute appointment, no waiting room.

When an in-person session is the right clinical call, and sometimes it is, particularly early in trauma work or at a point where a nervous system needs the information that being in a room with another person provides, I arrange one. In practice that means coordinating a consulting room from a colleague here in Austin for that session. It takes a few days of notice and it is scheduled per session rather than as a standing weekly slot.

If sitting in a room matters to you, raise it on the consultation call. We will talk about whether it is clinically useful for what you are bringing, and how to arrange it.

The searches that bring most people to this page are specific: somatic therapy, trauma therapy, anxiety that has not responded to talking about it. That specificity is usually earned. People tend to arrive here having already tried an approach that worked on their thinking and discovered that the body never got the message.

My work draws on Somatic Experiencing, where I am a second-year student at Somatic Experiencing International, and Internal Family Systems, alongside psychodynamic and attachment-informed therapy, ACT, and Motivational Interviewing. I have also completed MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training. Which of those leads depends on your history and what your nervous system can actually access at a given stage, and what to expect in trauma-informed therapy covers how that pacing works.

Austin has a growing number of ketamine clinics and a genuine psychedelic culture, and integration is frequently the piece nobody arranged. People come out of a powerful experience with material that matters and no clinical container to make sense of it in. Insight without integration tends to fade, and occasionally it destabilizes.

I work as an integration therapist: preparation beforehand where appropriate, and the slower work afterward of turning what surfaced into something durable. I hold an LCADC credential in substance use treatment and have worked as a ketamine integrationist. Psychedelic integration sets out the full scope, and ketamine integration therapy covers that process specifically. To be clear about the boundary: I do not provide, source, administer, or recommend any illegal substance, and nothing here is medical or legal advice.

It starts with a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation, where we discuss what brings you in and whether I am the right fit. Intake paperwork goes through a secure client portal, and the first full session is a biopsychosocial assessment of 60 to 90 minutes. If we are a good fit, you typically begin within one to two weeks.

The assessment is $300, ongoing 45-minute sessions are $250, and a 30-minute brief session is $185 when clinically indicated. The practice is private-pay and out-of-network, with a monthly Superbill for clients with out-of-network benefits, and HSA and FSA cards accepted. Under the No Surprises Act you have the right to a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges before treatment begins. You can request a consultation here.