For the women who learned to swallow their truth — and whose bodies won't let them anymore.

You've probably tried before.

Maybe you've done years of talk therapy and you understand your patterns better than ever — but you're still living them. Maybe you've read every book on attachment, codependency, complex PTSD, narcissistic family systems. You can identify a DARVO move in real time. You know what flying monkeys are. You've probably called yourself an empath, an HSP, or "a little neurospicy" at least once. You can name what happened to you. You can explain it clearly. And still, something underneath won't let go.

Been there.

I'm Allison Briggs, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Austin, Texas. I work with adults — primarily women, caregivers, and LGBTQ+ folks — who are ready to stop managing symptoms and start changing the patterns themselves.

A quiet place to do the work

My office sits in Timberline Office Park in Barton Hills, tucked under a canopy of large oaks and junipers just off Bee Cave Road and MoPac, in central Austin near Zilker Park.

The first time I saw this office, I nearly cried. I felt safe in it. There are trees outside that feel like they're holding you. Quiet, dim lights and soft couches. Maybe you'll even see a squirrel or two when you peek out the window.

You're less than ten minutes from downtown Austin, a short drive from Zilker Park and Barton Springs, and a few blocks from the Barton Creek Greenbelt if you want to walk before or after your session.

What I specialize in

My practice is focused, not general. I work specifically with:

• Complex PTSD and developmental trauma — the kind that came from years of growing up in a family system where your needs weren't safe to have
• Codependency and people-pleasing — and the somatic exhaustion that comes from spending decades performing instead of being
• Adult survivors of childhood abuse, emotional neglect, and the kind of family that produced a lot of flying monkeys
• Caregivers who have spent so long tending to others that they've lost track of themselves
• Moral injury — when you did the right thing in a system that punished you for it, or watched the system fail someone you couldn't save
• Highly sensitive, neurodivergent, and "neurospicy" women who feel everything at full volume and were told that was a problem to fix
• LGBTQ+ individuals seeking a space where their full humanity is the starting point, not a footnote

If you're searching for an EMDR therapist in Austin, a Brainspotting therapist in Barton Hills, or a codependency therapist near 78746, you've landed somewhere that takes that work seriously.

How I work

I'm trained in EMDR and Brainspotting — two modalities that go beneath the cognitive level, where most of the real work has to happen. I also integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed parts work, because most of us aren't one unified self trying to heal — we're a collection of younger versions of ourselves, each carrying something that needs to be heard.

Therapy with me isn't about pep talks, symptom checklists, or a printout of "boundary scripts" you'll never use. It's about getting honest about what's happening in your body, your relationships, and your nervous system, and then doing the slow, real work of letting your system rewire itself.

I also offer trauma intensives for clients who want to do focused, deep work in a shorter timeframe.

Who finds their way here

Most of my Austin clients are in their late 20s through 50s. They tend to be self-aware, insightful, and tired of explaining themselves to therapists who don't quite get it. They've often been the strong one, the caretaker, the one who held everything together, the family translator, the household project manager nobody asked them to be.

They come to me when:

• The thing they've been working on in regular therapy isn't moving
• They've recognized themselves in everything they've read about complex PTSD or codependency, and they want to actually heal it, not just understand it
• A relationship has ended, or revealed itself, and they're ready to look at what kept them in it for so long
• Their body has started telling them something their mind has been ignoring
• They've gotten really good at trauma vocabulary and are quietly horrified that they're still doing the thing

In-person in Austin and virtual across Texas

My office is in Barton Hills at 2525 Wallingwood Drive, Building 14, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78746, in Timberline Office Park near Bee Cave Road and MoPac. The location is convenient to Zilker, Barton Springs, downtown Austin, South Lamar, Tarrytown, Rollingwood, West Lake Hills, and Bee Cave.

I also offer virtual therapy to clients anywhere in Texas — Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and everywhere in between. Brainspotting and EMDR both translate well online when the fit and the work are right.

Office Hours

In-person in Barton Hills: Wednesdays Virtual therapy across Texas: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday