Aren't you tired of trying to do the “right” thing all the time?
You’re trying to meet all the expectations— your parents, your relationships, your religion, your career, yourself.
One simple question has become hard to answer:
What do I actually want?
MIKE ROTHSCHILD, LPC
In-person therapy in Austin · Online throughout Texas
Specializing in Religious Trauma
I'm not here to give you new rules to follow.
I'm here to help you hear yourself more clearly.
That usually means:
Slowing down.
Looking at where your beliefs and expectations came from.
Getting curious about emotions you're quick to dismiss.
Understanding why parts of you developed the way they did, rather than believing they're broken.
Over time, "What am I supposed to do?"
may start sounding more like, “What do I want to try?”
That shift doesn't happen because I have all the solutions.
It happens because we start asking different questions.
Here’s what that looks like in session with me.
Therapy with me is conversational.
Sometimes you'll be telling a story, and I'll interrupt. Not because you’ve said something wrong, but because you may have just said something worth slowing down for.
If you say, "I should..." I'll probably wonder where that "should" came from.
We laugh in therapy. Because life can be genuinely funny. And sometimes because humor is one way we learned to survive difficult things.
Those moments aren't detours. They're usually where therapy gets interesting.
I know what it's like to sit on the other side of the room.
I've gone through significant changes in my own life. My journey isn't yours, but I know the intimate, vulnerable feeling of sitting on “the couch,” hoping the therapist across from me will understand.
I don't want my therapist to tell me whether I'm right or wrong (even though I kind of do).
I want them live in my world with me for 50 minutes and believe that what I'm saying is true for me in that moment.
When I feel understood, I am able get curious about myself.
Curiosity gives me space to consider changing.