Online in Texas
(Online Only)
I work with high achieving women, caregivers, and helping professionals who are used to being the one who holds everything together. They anticipate needs, take responsibility for other people’s emotions, and say yes when they mean no. They push through when they are depleted and keep going long after their capacity is gone.
For a long time, this worked. It earned success, stability, and connection. Until it didn’t.
Most clients come to me when burnout has turned into resentment. When relationships feel one sided. When the emotional load becomes impossible to ignore.
This is not an individual failure. These patterns are often shaped by early roles, expectations, and environments that rewarded overfunctioning and self sacrifice.
In our work together, we focus on identifying these patterns, understanding what is actually yours to carry, and building the capacity to do less without collapsing into guilt or anxiety.
This is not about becoming a different person.
It is about creating a life that feels sustainable, reciprocal, and aligned.
If you are waiting until things calm down or get worse before reaching out, that waiting is part of the pattern.
You do not have to keep doing this.
Client Focus
Session Format: Group, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: Women clients.
Languages: English
Treatment Approach
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) One of the most widely used approaches, CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with healthier patterns. It is effective for anxiety, depression, and many other concerns.
- Existential / Humanistic Therapy Encourages people to explore meaning, freedom, and authenticity in their lives. It focuses on personal growth and living in alignment with one’s values.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) A structured therapy that uses guided eye movements to help process traumatic memories. It is widely recognized for treating PTSD and trauma-related conditions.
- Feminist Therapy Addresses how gender roles, power, and social inequality affect mental health. It empowers clients to challenge limiting beliefs and systems.
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Combines mindfulness practices with CBT to prevent depression relapse. It helps people notice thoughts without judgment and respond more calmly.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Approach Description: Most of my clients do not need more coping skills.
They need a different way of relating to responsibility, expectations, and themselves.
If what we have been doing was going to work, it would have worked by now.
My approach focuses on helping high achieving, overfunctioning individuals understand why they feel this way and how to actually change the patterns that are keeping them stuck.
We start by identifying where you are carrying more than your share. This often includes emotional responsibility, anticipatory caretaking, and a constant pressure to hold everything together. Many clients are so used to functioning this way that it feels normal, even when it is exhausting.
From there, we begin to untangle what is actually yours to carry and what is not.
This work is both practical and experiential. Together, we will:
Identify patterns of overfunctioning in your relationships, work, and daily life
Understand how these patterns developed and why they are so hard to stop
Build awareness of the internal signals you have learned to ignore, including exhaustion, resentment, and emotional overwhelm
Practice doing less in intentional ways, without immediately rushing in to fix, manage, or take over
Develop boundaries that are clear and sustainable, not reactive or guilt driven
Increase your capacity to tolerate discomfort, especially guilt, anxiety, and the fear of disappointing others
We also incorporate mindfulness and somatic awareness to help you reconnect with your body, not just your thoughts. Many high achievers live almost entirely in their heads. Learning to slow down and notice what is happening internally is a critical part of creating change that actually lasts.
This is not about becoming less caring or less capable.
It is about becoming more honest about your limits and more intentional about where your energy goes.
You will likely feel uncomfortable at times. That is part of the process. Doing less, setting boundaries, and allowing others to take responsibility can feel unfamiliar and even wrong at first. We will work through that together so that change becomes possible, not just conceptual.
If you are waiting until you feel less overwhelmed, more certain, or more ready before starting therapy, that moment may not come on its own.
Change happens when we interrupt the pattern.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee 200
- Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
- I offer discounted services for LPC-Associates, LMSWs & LMFT-Associates upon request.
- Out of Network
Education & Credentials
Aubrey Richardson MS, LPC
- Female
- License # 82167
- Licensed in Texas
- Practicing Since 2019
Education: Master of Science Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Johns Hopkins University
TRAINING:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Clinical Trauma Professional
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Informed
Meditation and Mindfulness
Somatic Therapy
EFT/Tapping
Aubrey Richardson Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available Online for residents of Texas
- Online Therapy Details: Secure video sessions through SimplePractice
Sage Holistic Counseling is a virtual therapy practice serving adults across Texas who are struggling with burnout, people pleasing, perfectionism, and chronic overfunctioning.
This practice is designed specifically for individuals who are used to being the helper, the responsible one, or the one others depend on. Many clients are therapists, healthcare professionals, caregivers, or high achieving women who feel emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, and increasingly resentful in their relationships and commitments.
Therapy at Sage Holistic Counseling focuses on:
Reducing burnout by addressing the patterns that create it, not just the symptoms
Identifying and shifting patterns of overfunctioning and emotional over responsibility
Building boundaries that are clear, sustainable, and aligned with your actual capacity
Increasing tolerance for discomfort, guilt, and anxiety that arise when you begin to do less
Creating more reciprocal, balanced relationships
The approach is holistic and integrative, incorporating mindfulness, somatic awareness, and evidence based practices to support both insight and real behavioral change.
This is not a space for surface level coping strategies or performative self care. It is a space for honest conversations, meaningful shifts, and learning how to live in a way that does not require you to abandon yourself.
If you are feeling stretched too thin, emotionally drained, and quietly questioning how much longer you can keep this up, therapy can help.
You can schedule a consultation to get started.