Plenty of folks who can’t sleep turn to melatonin. Most people think of it as a sleep aid but they generally don’t find it effective for insomnia. An Austin sleep therapist break it down.

After a traumatic event, people star looking backward for signs or clues then blame themselves for missing those signs or clues. An Austin trauma therapist can help you sort through the shame, guilt, and self-blame and let go of what isn’t yours to hold.

Let’s say you’re having trouble sleeping. Do you go to your primary care doctor? A sleep lab? A regular old talk therapist? A cursory Google search for “sleep specialist Austin” returns over 9 million results. Scroll past the sponsored posts and you start seeing providers. Some are doctors at large clinics. Others are therapists in small private practices. There are even apps that promise they can help you sleep better.

PTSD makes you feel alone, like your watching your life instead of participating in it. You world gets smaller and smaller. Working with an Austin trauma therapist can help you ease back into your life and feel like yourself again.

In our culture, self-control is generally praised and associated with success. The thinking is that you can’t have too much self-control. Further, deficits in self-control, like substance abuse, binge eating, or financial difficulties, are often what bring people into therapy. So…more self-control is always better, right? Not so fast, acording to a Radically Open DBT therapist in Austin. 

I am very often asked, by clients and therapists alike, to explain the difference between Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RODBT). RODBT spun off of DBT but is actually pretty different from the modality that birthed it.

As a therapist in Austin, people are constantly asking me how to find the right help for their needs. Austin appears to have a lot of therapists which might seem like a good thing. But you know that situation where too many choices feels overwhelming and there is so much fear about making the wrong choice that you’re paralyzed? Further, even once you get past the hurdle of reaching out to a potential therapist, you’re met with “not taking new clients” or appointments not available anytime soon. Or you just never hear back from them.