Therapy for Unconventional, Deeply Feeling Therapists
When the Work You Love Starts to Weigh You Down
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-focused therapist, I understand the weight of this work, not just professionally, but personally.
The quiet compassion fatigue that settles in after years of listening, the blurred boundaries between caring with and caring for, the vicarious trauma that accumulates no matter how much supervision, training, or mindfulness we practice.
This work changes us. It deepens our capacity for empathy, and sometimes drains the reserves we didn’t realize were finite.
Therapy for therapists offers a place to process what you hold, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with the parts of you that exist beyond the clinical role.
Online Therapy for Therapists Across Texas and Oregon
Even the most grounded, compassionate counselors need a corner of the world that’s theirs.
And if you’re here, reading this, you probably already know:
It’s your turn.
If you’re a therapist outside San Antonio, I also offer online therapy for therapists across Texas and Oregon.
Whether you’re a clinician in Austin, Dallas, Portland, and Eugene, or a small town in between, therapy offers a confidential space to process what you carry, strengthen your boundaries, and reconnect with your purpose.
Explore Online Trauma Therapy in Texas and Online Trauma Therapy in Oregon to learn how we can work together from wherever you are.
You just get to be you.
The Weight We Don’t Talk About
You show up for your clients every day, sitting with their pain, celebrating their wins, and helping them reconnect with their own strength.
But what about your own nervous system, absorbing the weight of that trauma day after day?
Who sits with your weight that lingers after everyone else has left your office?
As therapists, our own attachment wounds, grief, and trauma histories can be stirred up through this invisible labor of empathy.
When the line between presence and self-protection blurs, secondary trauma and compassion fatigue can take root.
And if left unacknowledged, the cost often shows up in subtle ways: irritability, exhaustion, cynicism, worry, anxiety, or withdrawal.
We 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 pause that inner narrative for a moment. None of those stories are true. You deserve a space for your own emotional processing, where the boundaries aren’t about work, they’re about your own self-care.
Many therapists I work with are processing secondary trauma or attachment wounds that parallel their clients’ stories. If you’d like to understand this through a broader lens, explore Trauma & PTSD or Attachment.
The Hidden Signs of Compassion Fatigue
You might recognize this if you:
Feel drained from deeply connecting with clients’ stories day in and day out; the place where therapist burnout starts to show.
Notice your own attachment wounds, grief, or old trauma resurfacing, with countertransference signals that are hard to shake.
Feel overwhelmed by vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and emotional exhaustion.
Find yourself isolated - you’re the strong one, until you hit your limit.
Struggle with boundaries - threading the needle feels impossible when you’re depleted and overwhelmed.
And underneath it all…
You miss just being you. Not the therapist, not the expert. Just the human being underneath it all.
When Therapists Need Therapy Too
The Stories That Stay With You
With the right support, even the heaviest stories don’t have to live in your body forever. Therapy is a space for you, not your clients.
Here, you don’t need to bring: fixing, analyzing, or apologizing.
What you’ll find is a warm, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused space to process your own experiences, whether that’s: personal trauma, complex PTSD, sexual trauma, childhood trauma, traumatic loss, PTSD, grief and loss, anxiety, people pleasing, perfectionism, or simply the cumulative weight of caring for others’ pain.
As your nervous system finds relief, so does your capacity to feel joy again, both inside and outside therapy.
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. You can just be in the moment.
It’s a place to 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 perspective, rest, and reconnection.
It’s a space to set down what you’ve been carrying in every way, emotionally, physiologically, and professionally, and to recalibrate.
That doesn’t make you less capable of a therapist.
It means you’re tending to the very system, your nervous system and inner world, that 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, reconnecting to depth, your presence, and your reflective practice.
How Therapy for Therapists Works
No therapist performance reviews here. Just a different therapy experience with someone who gets it.
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 and psychological flexibility, and reconnect you with a sense of internal safety.
➳ Choose your setting: in-person 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, and you’re nervous system will set the pace. Together, we’ll meet where the work needs to happen, intuitively and collaboratively.
➳ Sessions weave empowerment, humor, and warmth with evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches such as EMDR, Brainspotting, Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy, and Clinical Hypnosis, while tuning into and leaning into the wisdom of your nervous system and attachment patterns.
➳ No judgment. No checklist. Just real therapy for real therapists.
What Becomes Possible
Therapy isn’t about repairing you. It’s about restoring what this work and life can quietly wear down.
Over time, you may notice:
Feeling more grounded in your own body, not just showing up for clients, but yourself.
Showing up in relationships, with more openness and connection.
Recognizing your limits and responding with compassion instead of judgment.
Having energy and presence left for the parts of life that matter most to you.
Trusting yourself again, not because you’re the strong one, but because you’ve rebuilt self-trust from the inside out.
Healing here means reconnecting with your strength, your boundaries, and your inner peace, so you can keep doing this work you’re meant to do.
You’re More Than a Therapist. You Deserve Care and Support, Too.
➳ You don’t have to keep pushing through burnout and compassion fatigue.
➳ You don’t have to be untouched by pain to be good at this work.
➳ You don’t have to shrink your needs to show up for others.
Therapy for therapists isn’t indulgent. It’s what allows you to keep doing the work you love, without losing yourself in 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 therapists have when considering therapy for themselves.
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Therapy for therapists recognizes theunique 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 trauma 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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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 Feel Like You Again?
If you’re a therapist in San Antonio, schedule your complimentary phone consultation today. You deserve care every bit as much as you give it, so let this be a place that cares for you.
➳ Prefer meeting online? I work with clients across Texas and Oregon.
Ready to Get Started?
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