College students
Close to campus, not part of your university, and no cap on the number of sessions you get. In person in Austin, or virtually anywhere in Texas.
Our office, on Shoal Creek across from Pease Park, a little over a mile from the UT campus.
There is a particular tiredness in explaining the context before you can get to the thing. What rush actually involves. Why a group project is not a small problem. Why you cannot just come home. Why a 2.9 feels like it settles something about you.
Anxiety that arrived with the workload and has not left.
A breakup, or a friendship group that turned.
A first time living alone, and it being harder than expected.
Doing fine on paper and privately not fine at all.
Everybody around you appearing to manage, which makes it harder to say.
None of it has to be a crisis to be worth an hour a week. ELLEN WE NEED YOUR INPUT HERE. The five above are plausible rather than real. Replace them with what actually walks in from this age group.
We chose the name Decades for both halves: the years behind you, and the years still ahead. What you have been through is real. It does not get to write the rest of the story.
The first conversation is with you, not with a parent.
There is no session cap. The work is still goal-driven, and the end is decided by what is useful to you rather than by a number set in advance.
Tell us what you are dealing withThe consultation. Twenty free minutes, and it is with you rather than with a parent. You describe what is going on and we work out whether this is the right place and who fits. It ends in a recommendation, not an assignment.
The first session or two. Mostly history and orientation. What has been happening, how long, what you have already tried, and what you actually want to be different.
After that. ELLEN WE NEED YOUR INPUT HERE. What genuinely happens next, and specifically how the practice handles a semester: do sessions get paused around finals, moved, or held?
Ellen Johnson
MA, LPC | Clinical Director
College students are a large part of who this practice sees. What that looks like is ordinary therapy, scheduled around a semester rather than against it.
Greek life, transfer years, and going home for three months are not things you would have to explain from scratch here.
Summers, breaks, and Greek life
Sessions carry on through the summer and through breaks, which is one of the main reasons people start here rather than on campus. If you are going to be somewhere else for a stretch, say so and we will work out what makes sense, whether that is continuing virtually or pausing and picking back up when you are around.
If anxiety is the main thing: anxiety and depression therapyGreek life is a large part of who this practice sees, and it is not something you would have to explain from scratch. Chapter-level work, including talks and group sessions after something has happened, is something we do as well.
The methods, and where they fit. ELLEN WE NEED YOUR INPUT HERE. What is honestly used for this age group, and by whom. Please name only what somebody is actually trained in.
If something happened and it is still with you: trauma and PTSD therapyNot sure which? Ask us on a callThe campus counseling center is free and it is a genuinely good place to start. Where it tends not to work is when somebody needs more sessions than the cap allows, or cannot wait for the next opening, or does not want the university to be the place that holds this. That is usually why people end up here.
If you are over eighteen, what you say here is confidential, including from whoever is paying. ELLEN WE NEED YOUR INPUT HERE. What are the actual limits, how is it handled when a parent pays and asks, and what does a client get told about this at the start?
Yes. In person if you are in Austin, which covers UT and St. Ed's, and virtually across Texas, which covers A&M, Baylor, TCU and everywhere else.
Yes. Whether that means continuing virtually or pausing until you are back depends on where you will be, and it is worth a two minute conversation rather than an assumption. Either way you are not starting over with somebody new.
It is a large part of who this practice sees, and it is not something you would have to explain from scratch. Chapter-level work, including talks and group sessions after something has happened, is something we do as well. Ask on the consultation or have your chapter get in touch.
Appointments Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm, in person in Central Austin (across from Pease Park) or virtually across Texas. Weekends are sometimes available, so please ask if that works better for you.
No. The practice does not bill insurance directly. We can check your out-of-network benefits for you, by hand, before you commit to anything. If you are on a parent's plan, that is the plan we would check.
Say so on the consultation. Some of the team are working under supervision toward full licensure and see clients at a reduced fee, and it is a normal thing to ask about rather than an awkward one.
Twenty free minutes, and it is your call rather than anyone else's. You describe what is going on, we tell you honestly whether this is the right place, and rates, insurance and timing are all part of that conversation rather than a surprise later.
Book a free consultationPick a time that suits you, sometimes as early as today.
We talk through what would help, and what it would take.
You leave with a recommendation to work with someone on our team, or a referral to another resource in the area. Either way, you won't be back at square one.
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