Therapy for Insightful, Empathetic Therapists
When the Therapist Chair Gets Heavy
Therapy for Therapists in San Antonio
You’ve dedicated yourself to holding space for others, sitting with their grief, tending to their trauma, helping them untangle complicated family dynamics, and walking beside them as they navigate life’s messiest, most beautiful moments.
As a trauma and attachment therapist myself, I understand the weight of this work, not just professionally, but personally.
Even the most grounded, compassionate counselors need a soft place to land. And if you’re here, reading this, you probably already know:
It’s your turn.
Whether you’re a therapist in San Antonio, Austin, or anywhere else in Texas, I offer therapy and counseling created just for you. A space where you don’t have to be the calm, wise, “together” one.
You just get to be…human.
✥ In Oregon? I’m licensed there, too. Learn more about online therapy for therapists in Oregon here.
Therapist Burnout is Real
You show up for your clients every day - holding their pain, celebrating their wins, and helping them reconnect with their own strength. But what about your own nervous system, carrying the weight of that trauma vicariously?
Who holds space for your grief, your weariness, your secret fears that maybe, just maybe, you’re supposed to do this all on your own?
As therapists, our own attachment wounds and trauma histories can be stirred up through this deep emotional labor - and if left unaddressed, burnout and compassion fatigue can follow.
I hear this too often:
⤍ I should be able to handle this myself.
⤍ If I’m struggling, what does that say about me as a therapist?
⤍ I don’t want to be a burden.
Let’s stop and think about this for a second. None of those stories are true. And you don’t have to take this on by yourself anymore.
How Counseling for Therapists in San Antonio Helps
Therapy for therapists isn’t a luxury - it’s a necessity.
It’s where you don’t have to interpret, intervene, or hold space - just be in the moment. A place finally to pause and name what’s real: This is hard. I need support, too. When you stop carrying it all alone, space opens - for clarity, rest, and reconnection.
It’s a space to set down what you’ve been carrying, emotionally, physiologically, professionally, and gently recalibrate.
That doesn’t make you less capable of a therapist. It means you’re tending to the very system - nervous and emotional - you so skillfully co-regulate with your clients every day.
This isn’t about stepping back from the work. It’s about stepping more fully into your own humanity.
Signs You May Be Experiencing Burnout, Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma
You Might Recognize This If You:
⇨ Feel drained from deeply connecting with clients’ stories day in and day out.
⇨ Notice your own attachment wounds and old trauma stirring, and countertransference surfacing.
⇨ Feel overwhelmed by vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and emotional exhaustion.
⇨ Feel isolated - you’re the steady one, until you hit your limit.
⇨ Are constantly threading the needle - holding boundaries feels impossible when you’re depleted.
And underneath it all?
You miss just being you - not the therapist, not the expert.
A Safe Container for Therapists
Counseling for San Antonio Therapists
With support, even the heaviest stories don’t have to live in your body forever. Your therapist space can be for you - not your clients. Here’s what you don’t need to bring: Fixing, analyzing, or apologizing.
Just a warm, trauma-informed, and attachment-aware space to process your own stories - whether that’s personal trauma - complex trauma, sexual trauma, childhood trauma, traumatic loss, PTSD - anxiety, people pleasing, or just the cumulative weight of caring for others’ pain.
As your nervous system finds relief, so does your capacity to feel joy again - in and outside the therapy room.
No therapist performance reviews here - just a different therapy experience with someone who gets it.
How Therapy for Therapists Works
Your nervous system isn’t just a background player -it’s where the residue of holding others’ pain settles. Therapy helps restore your window of tolerance, rebuild emotional flexibility, and reconnect you with your own internal safety.
↠ Choose your setting: cozy office in San Antonio or remote from your office, or that one corner of the house where no one can find you for 50 minutes.
↠ I’ll be your guide. You set your own pace. I’ll meet you where we need to meet intuitively.
↠ Sessions blend compassion, humor, warmth, and evidence-based, trauma-informed therapies and tools like EMDR, Brainspotting, Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy, and Clinical Hypnosis - while tuning into and honoring the wisdom of your nervous system and attachment patterns.
↠ No judgment. No checklist. Just real therapy for real therapists.
You’re More Than a Therapist. You Deserve Care and Support, Too.
→ You can stop pushing through burnout and compassion fatigue.
→ You don’t have to be unaffected by pain to help others.
→ You can - and should - have a life where your needs matter, too.
→ Healing, here, doesn’t mean fixing. It means reconnecting - with your strength, your boundaries, and your own needs.
Ready to Feel Like You Again?
Whether you’re a therapist in San Antonio or connecting with me anywhere in Texas, schedule your complimentary phone consultation today.
You deserve care as much as you give it
FAQ: Therapy for Therapists in San Antonio
Even as a therapist, stepping into your own therapy can stir up hesitation. These FAQs speak to common (and often unspoken) questions many clinicians have when considering therapy for themselves.
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Therapy for therapists recognizes the unique emotional labor, compassion fatigue, and countertransference challenges you face.
It’s a space tailored to what you need personally and professionally for yourself, incorporating trauma-informed approaches to address your own attachment wounds and the impact of your own personal trauma and/or your clients’ trauma.
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Therapists often carry their own unresolved attachment injuries or trauma histories, which can resurface in sessions as countertransference or burnout.
Addressing these underlying issues in therapy helps build resilience and clearer boundaries in your professional and personal life.
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Vicarious trauma happens when repeated exposure to clients’ traumatic stories affects your emotional well-being. Trauma-informed therapy helps you process these experiences, regulate your nervous system, and develop strategies to protect your mental health.
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Absolutely! Therapy supports you in recognizing burnout signs early, healing emotional exhaustion, and restoring your energy through self-care, boundary-setting, and trauma-sensitive interventions.
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Yes! I offer both in-person and virtual therapy in San Antonio and online across Texas, making it easy to get the support you need regardless of location.
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Your privacy and confidentiality are important to me. Therapy with me is a judgment-free, healing space where you can be fully human without fear of stigma or professional repercussions.
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Supervision and consultation focus on clinical skills, case conceptualization, and ethical practice. Therapy for therapists is personal. It’s about you and how trauma and attachment patterns, burnout, anxiety, people pleasing and perfectionism patterns, or compassion fatigue are impacting you now.
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Of course! I work with LPC-Associates who want a supportive, confidential space to tend to their own mental health while they build their practice.
Therapy complements supervision beautifully, helping you navigate the personal challenges that come up as you grow into this work.
Ready to Get Started?
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