Experiential Therapy in Leander, TX

Navigating mental health challenges or addiction can be tough, but you don't have to go it alone. Let 26 years of personal recovery and 16 years of clinically treating addiction and mental health support you. Together, we'll embark on a transformative journey toward healing, growth, and a healthier, happier you. Let's achieve your best life, one step at a time.

I believe there comes a time in everyone's life when we will feel lost, disconnected or hopeless. We sometimes lose our ability to deal with life's challenges. This inability to deal with life's challenges can be frightening, confusing and problematic. What is needed at such moments in our life is an attuned and trusted other. Someone who can believe in us when we can't believe in ourselves. It is in this kind of therapeutic relationship where old wounds are healed and we learn to trust, manage our emotions and reconnect to our wise and true self.

You deserve therapy as unique as you are. I am a master's degree (M.S.-R.L.S.) Recreational Therapist (RT) in private practice at Inclusion Therapies. I provide outpatient rehabilitation Recreational Therapy (i.e., Experiential Activity-Based) for mental and physical optimum health (both online telehealth and in-person sessions). At our Lake Travis location, the Center for Therapeutic Recreation Technology (CTRT), we provide techniques including biofeedback, Ecotherapy (Nature therapy), video gaming, and virtual reality therapy. In the greater Austin, Texas area we provide limited Community-Based sessions.

Sometimes all it takes to make a change is the courage to take the first step. We offer Individual and Couples Therapy in and around the Austin area. Each session is provided in a safe and secure environment to share on a long or short-term basis depending on the client. We value and demonstrate open-mindedness for all walks of life and possess vast experience with many different issues and diagnoses. We believe that together we can design a step-by-step, cost-effective plan for you to achieve optimum ongoing happiness, satisfaction, and productivity in life.

As a parent myself I understand that raising children can be challenging, and I am passionate about supporting families in realizing their full potential for love, growth and peaceful relationships. I use evidence based practices to facilitate empowerment, self-control and healing through play, artistic expression, and sandtray therapy. I specialize in work with children, adolescents, and their caregivers, and have served as President of the Texas Association for Play Therapy and Clinical Editor for Play Therapy Magazine.

Trauma leaves a residue of dysfunctional thoughts, behaviors, and medical conditions that can and need to be detoxed out. EMDR treatment has effects such as no longer depending on pharmaceuticals, having an extra second to think, & more. I have spent two decades studying personality disorders, & the body's mechanism to dissociate. A spark was ignited when I first taught self-efficacy to orphaned and trafficked girls in India and I have been striving for change when others have given up ever since. We need to redefine and change the vocabulary of "mental illness" and "stable; into "gifted" and "recovered".

Are you suffering from anxiety? Panic attacks? Depression? Are your relationships painful or disconnected? People all over are feeling disconnected, lonely and struggling to find a way to purpose and fulfillment. At Intentional Life Therapy we will take the time to get to know you, your pain and your dreams. Dr. Shayne Webber has a Ph.D. in Marriage & Family Therapy and a Master's in Human Development and Family Studies. Shayne specializes in adolescents finding real connection and meaning, re-connecting family members and helping couples communicate and prioritize their relationship. This isn't just our job, it's our calling.

Everybody is going through something. We all have our own stories to tell, issues we need to face, and storms we have to go through. I want to come alongside you and help you find healing in your circumstances whatever they may be. If you have experienced trauma, have unresolved pain or are struggling with current issues, I want to help you process those things in a healthy, therapeutic way to resolve the negative emotions and behaviors tied to them. Through grief and loss, depression, anxiety or marital problems, I am here to help you find healing, comfort and strength within yourself to overcome and move forward.

I work from the belief that the human body and mind work together and constantly strive to find an inner peace and balance through self-healing. My role as a counselor is to help you create self-awareness, to facilitate the healing process, and to support you on your journey to finding your inner peace and life satisfaction. I enjoy working with adults, couples, and adolescents, addressing a wide range of challenges.