About Austin

I draw on various forms of therapy, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Intimacy From The Inside Out, The Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioral / Processing Therapies, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, to support clients in healing and thriving while navigating experiences of trauma and stress response, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, and difficulty adjusting to life's changes. 

I am in regular consultation and regularly engage continuing enducation.  I am in constant pursuit of learning from other disciplines. 

I love what I do, in part because I have the opportunity to learn from the life experience of every client and couple that I work with, each one a wealth of lived experience, I count it an honor and an inspiration to learn and to hold the stories of my client's. 

I also draw from a wide web of thinkers, authors, and healers and believe it is important to give honor to the lineages and inspiration that I draw from in my own work.  I look at my work as being a part of the lineage of those including (in no particular order) Richard Schwartz, Susan McConnell, Tara Brach, Joanna Macy, Ram Dass, adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill, Francis Weller, Sonya Renee Taylor, Gabor Maté, Sue Johnson, Jack Kornfield, Henry Shukman and many more.  Those therapists and mentors that I am in personal connection and on-going consultation with. 

"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves" - Alice Walker