Therapeutic Services Tailored to Your Healing Needs
Offering a variety of counseling services designed to help you navigate life’s challenges, using creative and trauma-informed approaches. Sessions are focused on meeting you where you are and helping you achieve your personal goals.
We blend creativity and evidence-based practices to help you unlock your healing potential. Using a combination of traditional therapy techniques and expressive arts, we’ll work together to explore your emotions and experiences in a way that goes beyond words.
Single Counseling Sessions
*limited sliding scale spots available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Many clients like to do six to eight weeks of weekly sessions and then re-assess to see if a bi-weekly schedule works better.
$110*
Double Counseling Sessions
These sessions can be useful to process intense experiences, work as a couple, or for some types of intervention like EMDR.
$200*
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Anxiety + Depression
Healing through creativity, self-expression, using coping skills and tools to navigate emotional challenges.
Stress + Overwhelm
Regaining self-confidence, building resilience, and adapting to life’s transitions
with grace.
Grief + T/trauma
Creating a safe space to explore trauma without judgment, using holistic healing tools, and long-term recovery support.
What We Believe
People are inherently good and born “good enough” to live meaningful, connected lives. Society often creates barriers to meeting our basic needs and finding fulfillment. Together, we’ll unpack the impact of systemic oppression, adverse childhood experiences, and trauma on your life.
Counseling can help you increase self-awareness, navigate emotional reactivity, and create meaningful change without fear. This approach is rooted in person-centered expressive arts therapy, narrative therapy, acceptance-commitment therapy, and feminist theory, creating a model of care that adapts to meet your unique needs.
Dear One: You are good enough. Just as you are.
In-person + Online
Holistic and Trauma-Informed Techniques
for Personal Growth
Healing takes courage, and you don’t have to do it alone. We provide a safe, supportive space where you can explore your experiences, understand emotional patterns, and rebuild your sense of safety through creative and trauma-informed care.
Some of the theories that inform our work are:
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- IFS views the mind as made up of different “parts,” each with its own role, and a core “Self” that can lead healing. It helps individuals understand and integrate their parts to foster internal harmony. 🔗 IFS Institute
- Expressive Arts Therapy
- This modality integrates various artistic forms—such as visual arts, music, movement, and writing—to facilitate emotional expression and healing, particularly for trauma and self-discovery. 🔗 International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
- Applied Polyvagal Theory
- Grounded in Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, this approach focuses on how the autonomic nervous system impacts emotional regulation, trauma responses, and social connection. It helps clients develop tools to shift from survival states (fight, flight, freeze) to a sense of safety and connection. 🔗 Polyvagal Institute
- Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)
- MSC integrates mindfulness and self-compassion practices to help individuals develop a kind and accepting attitude toward themselves. It is particularly beneficial for reducing self-criticism, increasing resilience, and fostering emotional well-being.
🔗 Center for Mindful Self-Compassion - Positive Psychology
- Positive psychology focuses on strengths, resilience, and well-being rather than just pathology. It emphasizes the science of happiness, gratitude, and mindset shifts to improve overall life satisfaction. A key figure in this field is Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and Beyond Happiness. Alexis had the privilege of working with Shawn for three years and helped create a workbook for Beyond Happiness, applying these principles to practical exercises for personal growth. 🔗 Shawn Achor
- Feminist Therapy
- Feminist therapy focuses on the social, political, and cultural influences on mental health, emphasizing empowerment, equality, and the impact of gender roles. It seeks to validate clients’ lived experiences and challenge systemic oppression.
- Family Systems Theory
- This approach views individuals within the context of their family dynamics. It suggests that patterns of interaction shape behavior and that changes in one family member affect the entire system. 🔗 The Bowen Center
- Gestalt Therapy
- Gestalt therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and personal responsibility. It encourages clients to explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors through experiential techniques like role-playing. 🔗 Gestalt Therapy International
- Jungian Therapy
- Rooted in Carl Jung’s work, this approach explores the unconscious mind, archetypes, and personal growth through individuation. It often incorporates dream analysis and symbolic work. 🔗 CG Jung Center
- Adlerian Therapy
- Based on the work of Alfred Adler, this therapy emphasizes social connectedness, personal growth, and overcoming feelings of inferiority through goal-setting and encouragement.🔗 Adlerian Psychology Association
ADDITIONAL AREAS OF STUDY - Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)-Informed
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-Informed
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
- Trust-Based Relational Interventions (TBRI)
- Anti-Patriarchal Therapy
- Post-Modern Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Psychoeducation and Bibliotherapy
- Somatic, Self-Havening, and other body-based awareness
- Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping)
I am new to this….
How can I prepare for our sessions?
Feel free to bring a notebook, your favorite beverage, and even your pet to virtual sessions! Together, we’ll create a safe and comfortable space where you can reconnect with your inner wisdom and build the tools to navigate life’s challenges with confidence.
Do I have to practice this stuff?
What happens after the session?
Healing doesn’t stop when the session ends. I encourage you to practice coping skills between sessions and to that end I can send you resources aligned to your goals—like reading recommendations and/or videos. However, there’s no pressure to do “homework.” The only expectation is that you show up to sessions with an open mind.
Introducing Our Founder
Alexis Bierman, LPC-Associate #TBD under the supervision of Vicki Williams-Patterson, MFA, ATR-BC, LPC-S
Alexis graduated with a Community Mental Health Counseling degree from Capella University in 2025; she spent her on-site training working with children in foster care and adoption, families, couples, and individuals.
Alexis embraces a holistic wellness-focused counseling approach individualized for each client/family–walking alongside clients, not as an expert, but as someone holding space and helping to make connections as needed. Grounded in trauma-aware practices, Alexis is enthusiastic about the intersection of neuroscience and counseling as it offers insight into so much! She affirms the therapeutic power of creativity to help build resiliency and wellness and often incorporates elements of expressive therapeutic arts in her sessions.
With a prior master’s degree in Anthropology from George Washington University and an undergraduate dual major in psychology and anthropology with a minor in religion, Alexis has diverse professional experience including museum education and digital marketing. Currently, Alexis is a student member of the American Counseling Association. She identifies as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent human and has struggled with issues of anxiety and empathic/narcissistic/rescuer victim triangles for much of her life. She identifies as a steadfast LGBTQIA2S+ ally and actively advocates for her fellow humans.
Alexis believes most diagnoses stop at symptomology and wants her clients to find the “why” behind their situation so they can identify as actively impacting their own healing, moving from surviving to thriving.
Beyond Counseling
Alexis serves on the board of the Austin Mosaic Guild and the Council of Stewards for Celebration Circle. Alexis creates mixed-media mosaics and shows her work at San Antonio’s Mockingbird Handprints Gallery and the San Antonio Art League. In 2023, Alexis earned certification as a “compassionista” and contributed to the development of the City of San Antonio’s “CompassionUSA” community training program.
Value Beyond Price
★★★★★
“You tell me things my friends who are counselors that charge $300 an hour say — kudos for working at the prices you do!” – JS
“I feel so supported by you and the way you understand the chaos that surrounds me on a daily basis!” -MR
“They are ok (substitute counselor) but no one compares to you!” -SM
Pros
+ Flexibile
+ Trauma-Informed
+ Encourages Growth + Termination
To Consider
– I am neurodivergent and have parts that like to lecture, so if you don’t want to learn the WHY, I may not be a great fit for you. Counseling is an investment in yourself — find someone you enjoy working with!