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Trauma Specialist and Therapist in Austin TX

Meet Michael

Therapist in Austin, TX

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Welcome to my practice! My greatest commitment is to enable long-term healing for my clients. I want to help you recognize and mend longstanding wounds, navigate persistent obstacles, and harness your resilience to approach life's struggles with resolve. After years of therapeutic experience and extensive training in advanced therapy modalities, I feel assured that we can help you navigate your inner and outer world with new confidence.
 
My approach focuses on building skills and knowledge, working through old baggage and current stress, and fostering a relationship where I am a constant catalyst for positive change in my client's lives. For those interested in specific details around my approach, I combine education, traditional talk therapy, and experiential therapy—a process of fostering a deep, knowing relationship with oneself and one's moment-to-moment experience—to ensure that my clients cultivate, understand, and truly feel the changes occurring in therapy. If you interested in working together are curious about my process, please feel free to reach out.

Education, Modalities, and Specialties

Graduate and Undergraduate Education

  • Wake Forest University Master of Arts in Counseling-Clinical Mental Health Specialization​

  • College of Charleston Bachelor of Science in Psychology with additional study in Neuroscience

Therapy Modalities

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

  • Internal Family Systems

  • Trauma-Informed and Anxiety-Informed Psychotherapy

  • Neurobiology-Informed Therapy

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (3rd Wave CBT)

Specialties

  • Developmental Trauma

  • Anxiety

  • Chronic Stress

  • Perfectionism

  • Self-Worth and Self-Esteem

  • Relationship Issues

  • Depression

  • Identity Development

Select Postgraduate Trainings

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Levels I and II (120+ hours of training focused on transformational attachment and trauma healing, mastering emotional processing, and resolving anxiety and psychological defenses

  • Internal Family Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide through the Clinical Applications of the IFS Model with Dr. Frank Anderson

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intensive with Dr. Daniel Moran, BCBA-D & Dr. Steven Hayes

  • Treating Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents with Dr. Lindsay Gibson

  • The SIBAM Model with Dr. Sunny Lansdale, LPC-S

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Master the Core Skills and Competencies with Dr. Charles Jacob

  • Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1 & 2 with Janina Fischer (Ongoing)

  • Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional Training: Applied Neuroscience for Treating Anxiety, Panic, and Worry (Ongoing)

  • Narcissistic Relationships, Emotional Abuse & Gaslighting: Treating and Empowering Survivors of Relational Trauma (Ongoing)

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