Therapy designed for people who others rely on.
Dedicated to supporting:
Caregivers at Home or in the Workplace
Executives and
People-Leaders in the Workplace
Anyone Facing Complex Trauma or PTSD
In-person sessions offered in Austin, TX. Online sessions offered for clients based anywhere in Texas.
When you are strong for everyone else,
who helps you stay strong for yourself?
I offer depth-oriented therapy for those who carry the burden responsibility at work, at home, in the care of others, or in healing from the past. This approach is integrative, somatically-grounded, and neurobiologically-informed, but rooted in something deeper: the exploration of what makes us human.
We will work not only with trauma, burnout, and nervous system overwhelm, but also with meaning, purpose, and self-agency. I specialize in supporting:
Leaders and professionals navigating pressure, complexity, and identity fatigue;
Caregivers—medical, personal, and emotional—who are burning out or breaking down;
Adults healing from complex trauma and the long-term impacts of PTSD; and
Those exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy or integrating past journeys.
Whether you’re managing a team at work, caring for others in any capacity, or simply trying to hold it all together, it’s easy to lose touch with your own needs, inner life, and sense of direction.
I offer therapy for those who appear capable on the outside, but feel stretched, stuck, or quietly unraveling within.
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When personal/professional coaching isn’t enough, Leadership & Workplace Counseling helps clients explore the emotional blocks that limit your personal and professional effectiveness. Designed for all leaders—not just executives—this therapy is also supports those dealing with emotional challenges in their place of work.
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Caregiver Counseling is designed to address individuals who might be dealing with any of the following: compassion fatigue, caregiver burnout, vicarious trauma, a toxic workplace, or workplace abuse. A common therapeutic approach used with medical professionals and family caregivers, this type of counseling works to address the hidden costs of caregiving.
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Complex Trauma Therapy is somatic and attachment-based that supports individuals who may have experienced early developmental trauma, complex trauma, and/or any kind of PTSD.
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Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, or Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, is used for the treatment of trauma and depression. The power of combining psychotherapy with psychedelics lies in therapy’s ability to support you in bringing overwhelming experiences into the context of your life’s overall meaning and purpose.
Services Offered:
What is Depth-Oriented Therapy?
Modern depth-oriented therapy is an integrative, neuroscience-informed approach to healing that explores the hidden layers of mind and body shaping how we experience ourselves and others. Drawing from psychodynamic traditions, it recognizes that unconscious patterns, early attachment experiences, and unprocessed emotions profoundly influence our present lives.
Modern depth-oriented therapy goes further by integrating insights from relational neuroscience, attachment research, and somatic psychology. This means that therapy doesn’t just focus on talking about problems—it also helps clients feel safe in their nervous system, repair relational wounds, and rewire the brain for greater connection, resilience, and authenticity.
Depth-oriented work also explores existential issues of being human, like freedom, meaning, isolation, and mortality, which can help us live with greater meaning and purpose.
Meet Your Counselor
Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than 25 years in executive leadership roles in the corporate tech world—both at start-ups and larger enterprises—managing both product and design teams, and navigating IPOs, mergers, and, acquisitions. All the while, I was masking my own inner struggles that impacted both my personal and professional lives.
Outside of my professional path, I spent a number of years serving as a caregiver for family members who were facing terminal illnesses. I found myself focused on supporting others and struggling to stay connected to myself in the process.
Like many of the clients I now work with, I checked all of the boxes of how our society defines being “successful,” but privately, I was burned out, disconnected, and searching for deeper meaning; I was also watching those around me face the same struggle, often without much support. It was this journey that called me to shift into the work of supporting others who might be facing similar challenges.
Michael Reiff, MS, NCC, LPC-Associate
Supervised by Kimberley Mead, LPC-S
Neurobiologically-Based.
Somatically-Grounded.
Trauma-Aware.
I work with people who typically have a great deal of emotional, organizational, and relational responsibility. This can include executives, healthcare professionals, educators, those suffering workplace abuse, family caregivers, and anyone carrying the burden of long-term trauma.
My clients come to therapy not because they’re falling apart, but because they’ve become resigned to stress and burnout, and have begun to forget what it is like to actually feel good and whole.
My goal is to support them on the journey to reconnect with and develop their own resilience, self-trust, and sense of purpose.
How I Work:
Leveraging depth-oriented, experiential therapy, I help you strengthen your nervous system, resilience, self-awareness, and your own ability to stay centered under stress. This work acknowledges symptoms like anxiety and depression, but guides you to find the root causes using modern, trauma-informed methodologies.
Together, we make space for integration—emotionally, somatically, and relationally—so you can lead, care, and live from a place of greater alignment.
What Clients Bring to Therapy:
Burnout from caregiving or professional overextension
Chronic stress, anxiety, or emotional shutdown
The pressures of leadership in a time of instability
Work impacts on intimate relationships and friendships
Trauma from abusive patients, peers, or superiors
Workplace bullying and moral injury
Complex trauma or PTSD
Grief, loss, identity shifts, and major life transitions
Challenges being neurodivergent or a highly sensitive person (HSP) in the workplace
A longing for meaning, clarity, or renewed direction
What Clients Take Away from Therapy:
The confidence to set clear boundaries, whatever the setting
Improved personal and professional communication
Lessening of trauma symptoms and a deeper understanding of the roots of the trauma
Clarity and confidence around how to move forward in areas that have held you back
Relying less on masking in order to fit in regardless of the setting
A renewed sense of meaning and direction in life — whether professional or personal
Reconnection with the values, actions, and people that bring you joy and connection