Therapy for Therapists

In-person somatic therapy in Austin and virtual therapy across Texas for therapists who are great at understanding everyone else—and ready for a space where they don't have to be the therapist.

You know a lot. And you can still get stuck.

You understand attachment. You can spot a trauma response. You know what a protector is doing. You may even know exactly why you react the way you do.

And then someone you love disappoints you, you feel misunderstood, you're afraid you've upset someone, or something hits an old wound—and suddenly all that insight doesn't make it any easier to respond differently.

Knowing this stuff professionally doesn't make you immune to being human.

Many of the therapists I work with are incredibly good at noticing what other people need. They can sit with discomfort, hold complexity, and offer compassion all day long. But in their own relationships, they may overfunction, second-guess themselves, avoid disappointing people, or quietly organize themselves around everyone else's needs and emotions.

Therapy gives you somewhere to turn that attention toward yourself.

You don't have to be good at therapy here.

You don't need to give me the perfectly formulated insight. You don't need to explain the theory behind what you're experiencing. And you definitely don't need to impress me with how self-aware you are. You don’t need to give a caveat or “well, if I think about it from their perspective.”

You, my dear, get to take a break from work and be a human. I’m at work, not you. Isn’t that a freeing thought?!

We can talk like two humans.

We'll still make meaning of what's happening, but we'll also slow things down enough to notice what happens before your very smart brain takes over.

What happens in your chest when you think someone is disappointed in you?

What does your body want to do when you're angry but don't feel like you're allowed to be?

What happens when someone tries to take care of you?

That's often where things get interesting.

Together, we might work with perfectionism, shame, attachment wounds, relationship patterns, burnout, grief, over-responsibility, or the parts of you that have gotten really good at taking care of everyone else.

I draw from EMDR, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, trauma-conscious yoga, and Somatic Experiencing®. I'm currently completing the three-year Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training and have completed Beginning Level II.

Come as a person, not a therapist.

You can know better and still not do better sometimes. You can teach regulation and still get dysregulated. You can help people set boundaries and struggle with your own. You can love being a therapist and sometimes be completely fucking tired of being the person everyone comes to.

None of that makes you a bad therapist.

It makes you human.

If you're looking for a place where you can stop analyzing yourself for an hour and actually experience your own therapy, I'd love to work with you.