Westlake and Rollingwood
Therapy for Westlake and West Lake Hills
If you live in West Lake Hills, Westlake or Rollingwood, this is a place to set down what you have been carrying, even when life looks fine from the outside. My office is in Southwest Austin, and telehealth covers the weeks that are too full to come in.
When expectations run high
Expectations can arrive from every direction at once: school, sport, career, appearance, and the voice in your own head that is never quite satisfied. When you are good at meeting them, few people think to ask what it costs you. You might be the parent holding everything together, the professional who cannot afford an off day, or the teenager who feels measured at every turn. None of this means something is wrong with you. It may mean a pattern that once served you well has started to run the whole show. It can look like this:
- A win brings relief for about ten minutes
- Rest only feels allowed once it has been earned
- Delegating feels riskier than doing it all yourself
- Your worth seems to rise and fall with your last result
Perfectionism and worth that depends on results
Perfectionism rarely announces itself as a problem. It looks like discipline, reliability, high standards. From the inside, though, it is a standard that moves every time you reach it. I teach Present over Perfect: you are enough, and your life does not have to be earned by getting everything right. That does not mean giving up your drive. We protect what you value about it while loosening the fear that you are only as worthy as your last result. I say this as a recovering perfectionist myself. Therapy for perfectionism and therapy for burnout and high achievers go further into this work.
Teens and athletes under pressure
If you are a parent watching a teenager carry too much, therapy can give them somewhere to unload some of it. I work with a mature 10 and up, mostly through talk therapy with some written and art activities. We agree up front how parents are kept appropriately informed while protecting your teen's sense that the room is genuinely theirs, and safety always comes first. Pressure, anxiety, withdrawal and the work of figuring out who they are under all the expectations are welcome here. Therapy for teens explains how this works in more detail.
Athletes carry their own version of this: nerves before competition that follow you home, replaying every mistake, the fear of letting people down, family expectations and the comparison that social media feeds. An injury, or the end of a sport, can leave you asking who you are without it. I have played soccer since I was five, so I take that pressure seriously. Work with athletes can be brief, solution focused and efficient, and as a marriage and family therapist I can also look at the coaches, teammates and family around the problem. Performance anxiety therapy for athletes has more.
Betrayal and divorce, kept private
When your life is woven into a small circle of school, work, teams and neighbors, a betrayal or a divorce can feel impossible to talk about without it becoming someone else's story. Discovering an affair, hidden spending or a long-running secret turns the person you relied on into the source of danger. We slow down the checking, the replaying and the sleeplessness first. Then we work on what you want to decide, whether that is repair or a clear-eyed exit. Betrayal trauma therapy and divorce care and recovery each have their own page.
Discretion, in practical terms
Privacy is not a luxury in this work; it is part of what makes honesty possible. The office is in Southwest Austin rather than in West Lake Hills itself, and telehealth lets you meet from a private spot anywhere in Texas. This is a self-pay practice, so no diagnosis is filed with an insurer on your behalf and no plan reviewer decides how many sessions you get. If you choose to seek out-of-network reimbursement, monthly superbills are available, and that choice stays with you. If we ever take a session outdoors on a walk-and-talk, we agree in advance what to do if we pass someone you know.
Fitting therapy into a full calendar
Busy weeks are real, and therapy has to work with them rather than pretend they do not exist. In-person sessions are on Fridays, and some select other times and days as schedules allow. Friday appointments fill first. On the weeks you cannot come in, online therapy across Texas keeps the work going by secure video. If weekly sessions are not sustainable at all, therapy intensives offer concentrated time over one to three days, with breaks and pacing built in. We decide together on the free consultation which rhythm fits.
Common Questions
Is your office in West Lake Hills or Rollingwood?
No. The only office is in Southwest Austin, at 5900 Southwest Pkwy, Building 5, Suite 230. In-person sessions are on Fridays and some select other times and days as schedules allow, and telehealth is available anywhere in Texas.
Will my insurance company know I am in therapy?
This is a self-pay practice, so no diagnosis is filed with an insurer on your behalf. If you decide to submit monthly superbills for possible out-of-network reimbursement, that is your choice to make.
How are parents kept informed when a teen is in therapy?
We agree on how that works up front. I keep parents appropriately informed about how the work is going while protecting the teen's sense that the room is theirs. Safety always comes first.
Can athletes outside Texas work with you?
Therapy is Texas only. Athletic mental health coaching and mentoring is a separate, non-clinical service, not therapy, and it is available in all 50 states and globally.
The consultation is free and there is no obligation on either side.
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