You Deserve Kindness

While life can bring moments of joy and celebration, it can also be accompanied by anxiety, grief, trauma, and sorrow. These challenges can be overwhelming and impossibly lonely. As women, we can be particularly hard on ourselves and feel pressure to thrive despite these stressors. I am inspired by the strength and resiliency of women in a world that places immeasurable pressure on us to be perfect, polite, and put together. At Kindness Counseling, you will be met with warmth, compassion, a sprinkle of humor, and without judgment. I feel grateful that I genuinely love my job as a therapist and consider it a privilege to hold a space of compassion and understanding for you, until you are able to extend that wholehearted acceptance towards yourself. You deserve kindness, in all seasons.

Welcome to Kindness Counseling

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I work with women who:

  • Struggle with anxiety, despite looking put together on the outside

  • Identify as perfectionists and people pleasers

  • Have a history of trauma or chronic stress

  • Feel like they can’t turn their brain off

  • Have a loud inner critic

  • Often struggle with not feeling “good enough”

  • Have difficulties asking for help and accepting help

  • Struggle to set boundaries

  • Feel overlooked

  • Are often the “model student",” “successful employee,” or “reliable friend”

  • Are new moms, pregnant, or postpartum

  • Are grieving

  • Are struggling with ADHD but masking with anxiety and perfectionism

  • Are perfectionistic

  • Are “likable, agreeable, pleasant, and polite,” but feel disconnected from their authentic self, wants, and needs

  • Are considered “independent,” but often feel lonely or left out

My therapeutic approach is tailored to each individual based on their current needs, and I utilize a variety of trauma informed treatments, including EMDR and IFS. I specialize in working with perfectionistic and people pleasing women to treat anxiety and trauma. I use these modalities to help women explore the root of their anxiety, heal from past trauma, and cultivate a more calm internal world.

Specializations

  • Trauma can be an isolated event, like a car accident, miscarriage, sexual assault, natural disaster, or experiencing the death of a loved one. Trauma can also be ongoing, such as childhood abuse or neglect, getting bullied, chronic or terminal illness, and intimate partner violence. We often think about trauma as something overtly extreme; however, trauma can also be invisible, discreet, developmental, or the absence of something—caregivers withholding affection or showing favoritism, an attachment figure leaving, parenting a child with disabilities, caring for a sick loved one, infertility, or being parentified as a child. Trauma is lonely, but you don’t have to navigate it alone.

  • Anxiety can present as overthinking, not being able to turn your brain off, irritability, perfectionism, worst case scenario thinking, overachieving, nervous stomach, constantly being on the go, people pleasing, trouble concentrating, and muscle tightness. This only scratches the surface of how anxiety may show up for you. Anxiety can also take a toll on our sleep patterns, relationships, self-esteem, capacity to feel present, and our physical health. There can be relief, and I hope to support you in finding it.

  • Grief is an emotion that we all come face to face with at one point or another. Although this is a universal thread in the human experience, grief can often be isolating, lonely, and utterly painful. Our human biology is wired for connection, and the loss of a loved one not only affects us emotionally, but it alters our brain chemistry and physiology. Research shows that grief can impact hormone production, the nervous system, sleep cycles, the immune system, and heart function. Grief can present as sorrow, disbelief, anger, numbness, anguish, depersonalization, regret, fear, and a multitude of other distressing emotions. While grief may change shape over the course of our life, it never goes away, and although grief is lonely, know that you are not alone. “It’s okay to grieve. It takes courage to love someone that much.” -A facilitator from the Women’s Mother Loss Support Group at The Austin Center for Grief and Loss

Contact Hannah at Kindness Counseling

Thank you for reaching out. It takes courage to seek support. Whether you're hoping to feel less anxious, process past trauma, openly grieve, or reconnect with your authentic self, please don't hesitate to send me a message. I am more than happy to arrange a free 15 minute consult so you can see if I would be the right fit for you. I would love to talk more about how therapy can become your safe space for healing and growth.