Open Heart Counseling of Austin PLLC

08/03/2026

🌟Check out my upcoming Sandtray Therapy training!🌟

Live In-person and Virtual Webinar on Aug 21st @ 9am CST

Clinical supervision can be a wonderful environment to process and learn about multicultural competency. Sandtray therapy and expressive arts offers an even richer way to explore your own multicultural identity and how to apply that work with our clients. Discover practical sandtray techniques designed to enhance your multicultural supervision skills and expand your clinical toolkit.

No prior sandtray experience required! Nor do you need to currently use sandtray therapy in your practice to benefit from this training.

6 CEU renewal credits are available with this training

Click the link below for our in-person option⬇
https://openheartwebinars.podia.com/019f946d-6baf-7616-a9d2-9c48c07d8744

Click the link below for our live virtual option⬇
https://openheartwebinars.podia.com/019fa570-8e51-7e12-8f2e-6423397b9bc4

06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth to all from Open Heart Counseling of Austin! 💕

❤️🖤💚 ✊🏿❤️🖤💚 ❤️🖤💚 ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 ✊🏾 ❤️🖤💚✊🏾 ✊🏾 ❤️🖤💚 ✊🏿❤️🖤💚 ❤️🖤💚💛

06/12/2026

10 years ago, 49 lives were taken during the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Today, we continue to hold space in our hearts for those who were taken too soon. We will always remember.

🏳️‍🌈 ❤️🧡💛💚💙 ❤️💛💚💙💜

06/03/2026

💖💛💚Happy Pride Month💙💜🖤

At Open Heart Counseling, we celebrate pride today and everyday 🏳️‍🌈

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05/15/2026

💛🌍Happy International Family Day🌍💛

Families come in many forms: blended, chosen, single-parent, multigenerational, foster, adoptive, and everything in between.

This year’s theme, Families, Inequalities, and Child Wellbeing, reminds us that strong families are supported not only by love and connection, but also by the systems and communities around them.

Today is a reminder to:
✨ Advocate for policies that support children and caregivers
✨ Create spaces where families feel seen, supported, and connected
✨ Recognize that wellbeing is deeply tied to access, equity, and community care
✨ Continue building relationships grounded in empathy and resilience

05/08/2026

Learn how integrating EMDR and sandtray therapy offers a powerful approach to healing reproductive trauma. This combined method honors clients’ unique experiences, blending evidence-based trauma processing with symbolic expression to support deeper healing. Ideal for clinicians seeking practical s...

05/07/2026

💙It's Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week💜

This week we highlight the importance of raising awareness of maternal mental health concerns (which affect 1 in 5 women), break stigmas, and encourage open and supportive conversations. 2026's maternal mental health week theme is: "A Decade of Voices" and marks 10 years of progress in lived experience, leadership, and advocay

05/05/2026

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05/04/2026

Open Heart Counseling is a safe space, and will always be a safe space, for any type of perinatal loss, including TFMR. May 4th (and the first Sunday of May) is for those of you grieving, and please know, we are here to honor your babies. You can share your story with us as many times as you need to. 💜

05/01/2026