My background in mental health counseling spans over 12 years. I am a licensed professional counselor and a researcher with a strong background in mental health and allopathic medicine. My counseling/psychotherapy expertise includes working with children, adolescents, and adults with various mental health, addictive, coping, and dependency problems. These include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), attention hyperactivity and deficit disorder (ADHD), anxiety, depression, gambling, and psychosis. I help clients resolve crisis-related suicidal attempts/ideation, anxiety attacks, emotional trauma, accidents/natural disaster, and financial hardships. I am understanding, compassionate, and experienced in counseling individuals from various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds while maintaining a strong work ethic and positive attitude.
I use various therapy models which include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Brief Therapy, Evidence-Based Therapy, Family Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I connect clients with community service and resource agencies that will continue to serve as support systems to the clients.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Antisocial personality, Attachment issues, Avoidant personality, Body image, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family problems, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Narcissism, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Smoking / vaping cessation, Somatization, Traumatic brain injury, Trichotillomania
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
TX LPC 77965
OR LPC C7304
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He is very comforting and easy to talk to about hard subjects.
Written on Jul 21, 2020 after therapy with Austin for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue
Austin Amanambu is very knowledgeable, relatable and kind. He is also easy to talk to and I appreciate his humor. I found his advice incredibly helpful.
Written on Jun 19, 2020 after therapy with Austin for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, lgbt, and anger management
Great counseling, very helpful!
Written on Apr 06, 2020 after therapy with Austin for 2 months on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, family conflicts, and anger management