I heard this phrase as a counseling student in the throes of her program. It was before I’d started seeing clients – during a time when I was consuming as many mental health podcasts as I could stand in the vain hope it would make me a better counselor. Most of them...
Clients are sometimes hesitant to start EMDR, and for good reason. The idea of dredging up painful experiences from your past is uncomfortable, there’s tons of horror stories floating around the internet of people getting retraumatized with bad EMDR work, and frankly...
There is a quote from Carl Jung that really sticks with me: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” What he is getting at is that so much of what shapes how we feel, and act happens below the surface, stuff we...
Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the recent flooding in Central Texas. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, grieving, or struggling to make sense of it all, please know you’re not alone. At Austin Family Counseling, we have trauma-trained therapists ready and...
