"I enjoy working with adolescents, adults, and couples and have extensive experience working with moms who are struggling with the demands of parenthood. I work especially well with those who are struggling with anxiety, panic, self-doubt, depression, life transitions, divorce, fertility issues, parenting challenges, stress management, health issues, relationship problems, and family conflict."

"Sometimes anxiety, stress, pain and uncomfortable feelings run our lives. My passion lies in helping you to find freedom and movement from these uncomfortable feelings rather than stagnation and suffering. Together, we will explore how you respond to uncomfortable feelings and find healthier, more productive and more genuine ways of responding that fit with your values and move you closer to your full potential in all areas of your life."

"Thank you for inquiring about my practice and for more information, please visit my website at www.MyAustinTherapist.com. As a psychologist, my goal is to help bring an overall positive change to your life and future. It may be helping you feel good again, improving your self-esteem, developing better relationships, leading a more rewarding life, or achieving your goals; to be empowered, cope with stress or help with identity development."

"Heart Centered Therapy helps you connect to what is Essential and True within yourself. It supports you in restoring inner balance, aliveness, peace and meaning in your life and in your relationships. The accumulations of life challenge, stress and trauma create beliefs, emotions and thoughts that become conditioned patterns. that cover up and distract us from our ability to be present. These patterns interfere with our sense of self and relationships. Authentic presence returns as the patterns of stress and trauma are integrated restoring a natural vibrancy and aliveness."

"Sexual struggles are more common than you think, you are not bad or broken. I create a safe comfortable and confidential environment. I’ll put you at ease and you’ll find that working with me is a warm, comforting experience. Some of my areas of expertise are sexual pain, open/poly lifestyles, infidelities, sexual desire discrepancies, low sex drive and “porn/sex addiction”. I also welcome the LGBTQ+, kink community. Sexual vitality and pleasure are essential parts of being alive. Let’s add more play, intimacy and excitement to your life! I offer therapy via video sessions from the comfort of your home. "

"*Caseload full at this time (6/10). Are you exhausted by depression, anxiety, and stress? Would it help if your Therapist were conveniently located near campus and downtown Austin with flexible meeting times? Spyglass Counseling is here to help. I offer presence and purpose in my work with clients. We will come together to learn more about you and connect with your important place in this world. With this insight, we will identify what meaningful steps could be taken to create change in your life. You will always be met with warmth and understanding, regardless of what brings you into our counseling space."

"If you feel like you have tried everything and nothing works, I get you! I strongly believe that we all have an inner wisdom deep within us, but through our life experiences and social influences, most of us lose access to our Real truth. In our work together I will guide and support you as we peel back the layers so that you can reconnect with your deeper sense of self. As you begin to make that connection, shift happens. My hope is for you to leave my office feeling empowered in your healing journey."

"Parenting consultations about adolescents and public talks to parent and other groups. Since January 2009, my weekly blog for Psychology Today: SURVIVING (YOUR CHILD'S) ADOLESCENCE, has received over 5 million reads. I have written 15 parenting books. The most recent are: SURVIVING YOUR CHILD'S ADOLESCENCE (Wiley, 2013), BOOMERANG KIDS (Sourcebooks, 2011), WHY GOOD KIDS ACT CRUEL (Sourcebooks, 2010), KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL STEPFATHERING (Barron's Educational series, 2010, second edition), STOP THE SCREAMING (Palgrave Macmillan,2009), THE FUTURE OF YOUR ONLY CHILD (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), THE CONNECTED FATHER (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.) A complete list of my books: see my website: www.carlpickhardt.com"

"Do you experience anxiety, depression, and loss as your primary emotions? Do you often feel hopeless, or helpless? Do you have the nagging sensation that there is something more to be had with your life? Don't let these emotions prevent you from experiencing joy, peace and pleasure. We can rewrite your story through a counseling, reframing relationship. I believe sitting with another person to explore their story, and their perceptions related to those stories, can redeem broken places, restore vitality, and reveal hope for the future. "

"As a depth-centered psychotherapist, my mission is to help you better understand and connect with the realest self that you are-the self that has a profound ability to know exactly how to live a life of meaning and fulfillment. Awareness always proceeds change, and a large chunk of the work in therapy with me involves slowing down and noticing internal processes. Here we have an opportunity to disrupt beliefs that may be contributing to conflict in relationships, stagnation in life goals, and unwanted habits. I find it essential to look at the body and mind as a whole system, and I will help you find and implement balance."

"Our lives are made vibrant through our relationships and connections with others. In times of stress, depression, anxiety/fear, relationships become strained, self-esteem suffers and daily life becomes difficult and overwhelming. Therapy can provide a healing relationship where you can learn, change and gain new perspectives on yourself and your difficulties. We will collaborate to create a safe environment where powerful change can happen through a non-judgmental working relationship that offers healing, support and growth. By asking questions, compassionately challenging perceptions and providing guidance, my goal is to help you gain new insight to find your own solutions."

"I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and families who want to improve their relationships with others, including families, friends, loved-ones, and co-workers. I have extensive experience working with individuals, couples, families, and children from diverse backgrounds with a range of mental health issues, from severe and chronic mental illness, acute crisis situations, to phase of life difficulties and transitions."

"When overwhelm, trauma, relationships, and transitions impact us it can be difficult to navigate life. I offer a warm, authentic and compassionate presence to help you connect with wellbeing and possibilities. My view of healing is relational, and I welcome your full self."

"Would you like to break self-defeating patterns but, no matter how hard you try, you keep feeling disappointed? Changing your behavior is often temporary but there is a better solution - change your brain. Recent research tells us that the brain is flexible, it changed to learn from past experiences and it can change again to recover original potentials. You can change your history."

"I am a board certified psychologist with 40 years of experience. I focus on present experience, correcting defensive patterns that cause painful symptoms, stress, disregulated states, and relationship problems. "Glitches" in our nervous systems created by earlier experience can be "re-wired". Therapy provides resources and the intimate interpersonal experiences that were missing before. Whatever states are aroused can be safely explored and mastered. When our whole systems, body heart and soul, work properly, receiving help when it's needed, we have a sense of well-being, even in difficult times, and can move towards our life and spiritual goals."

"All of us, including me, need help sometime in our lives. We are not made to go it alone --we need a safe place, with a safe person to explore our important questions. My advanced degree is a specialty in Somatic psychology. That training enables me to work with the psychological, physical, and emotional complexities of human experience. I work with people who have experienced all types of trauma. I also work with those experiencing depression, anxiety, and all types of relationship issues. These are simply a few of the issues people bring to therapy."

"For help with alleviating anxiety and depression, promoting personal growth and increasing your well-being, I incorporate cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness and family systems approaches. I offer a support/challenge style to encourage self-exploration of your present life and past history in order to overcome emotional pain and trauma, develop self-acceptance, and increase empowerment in your life. Practicing internal kindness, communication skills and mindfulness techniques are a focus of my counseling sessions because I believe they have a positive impact on your self-worth and relationships. I enjoy working with women and men, as well as couples and groups."

"I am a career counselor and psychotherapist. My approach is to collaboratively explore your thoughts, beliefs and life experiences to help you gain greater self-knowledge and enable you to live a more satisfying life. Whether you are in the midst of a life struggle or not necessarily in crisis but looking to improve your general quality of life and well being, I believe our work together will empower you to cope with life difficulties in a productive way as you break negative patterns and have a deeper connection to yourself and others."

"My focus is on adult mental health, addiction, and adults experiencing life transitions. I utilize a person-centered approach, based on each individual’s needs and goals, to guide our sessions. Approaches may include modalities such as Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and others. I also have extensive experience working with family members whose loved ones are experiencing mental illness or addiction. I believe one of the most important things we can do to support a loved one with these needs is to educate ourselves and obtain the necessary supports. "

"My approach to therapy focuses on an empowerment method to capitalize on the intelligent and profound ways one manifests their life. I feel psychotherapy can be beneficial for any person, and the importance of a safe and comfortable environment to help enable clients to develop insight. Using different techniques to help areas of struggle or growth opportunities we will discover ways to promote one's inner self, including trusting the self and guiding one's intuition. I believe in building a relationship with my clients to have a space to process current frustrations and heartache."