you are exactly where you need to be

psychotherapy for

seekers

healers

and

cycle breakers

Maybe you’ve noticed the same patterns repeating in your relationships. You feel weighed down by family dynamics that shaped you in ways you never chose. Maybe life feels flat, directionless - and you’re hungry for something more meaningful.

Though it may come with discomfort - change, self-examination, and growth can all be worthwhile endeavors.

I would be honored to be your companion on the path to self-understanding and the peace you are seeking.

Hi, I’m Micaela

I’m a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Austin TX. I specialize in the lifelong process of individuation - becoming your own person through self-discovery, integration, and finding purpose.

About Micaela

Whatever brought you here is not a detour. It’s part of the path.

Who typically finds me

  • People who grow up in complicated family systems often develop strategies for getting by — ways of staying safe, keeping the peace, or holding things together. Those patterns may have helped you survive then, but they can leave you feeling stuck now. You might feel lonely in your relationships, or struggle to feel connected and secure. You might feel like you are constantly trying to break free of your family of origin — whether literally or metaphorically. In therapy, we’ll honor the strategies that once protected you, while also exploring new ways of being that serve you better today. Together, we can increase self-awareness, reshape unhelpful patterns, and cultivate a deeper sense of security — both within yourself and in your relationships. It’s about moving from survival toward a fuller, freer life.

  • Life’s challenges often bring up deep questions about meaning, purpose, and our place in the world. At times, uncertainty, loss, or transitions can leave us feeling untethered. Exploring these experiences can help clarify what truly matters to you. Together, we can work toward aligning your life with your values, embracing personal responsibility, and finding meaning - even in the face of uncertainty. 

  • I often work with people who feel drained in their relationships. The ones who give and give, but still feel unseen or unsupported. Maybe you’ve learned to say yes when you want to say no, or you find yourself responsible for other people’s emotions. Together, we’ll explore how to create healthier boundaries so you can experience connection without losing yourself.

  • Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.

    Vernon Sanders Law

  • Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

    C.G. Jung

  • Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

    Nancy Gibbs

  • I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

    C.G. Jung

  • To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

    Friedrich Nietzche

  • "How does one become a butterfly?" She asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

    Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

  • The greatest battle we face as human beings is the battle to protect our true selves from the self the world wants us to become.

    E. E. Cummings

  • Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

    Iyanla Vanzant

  • You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you're coming out the other side.

    Chinese Proverb

  • Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

    Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

    Winston Churchill

  • We are human beings, not human doings. Take a second to breathe.

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