You don’t have to be less messy to be worth understanding.
Roxy works with individuals and couples who are ready to get curious about the patterns that keep pulling them back into the same places. Many of the people who find their way to her are navigating attachment wounds, difficult relationships, shame, identity, dating, family dynamics, or the aftermath of emotional abuse.
She is warm, deeply nonjudgmental, and not particularly easy to shock. Roxy brings humor into the room when it helps, while also paying close attention to the beliefs, fears, and protective patterns that can quietly run a person’s life.
She wants to help you understand what has been driving the pattern—so you have more freedom to choose what happens next.
Roxy is supervised by Daniel Brake, LMFT-S
focus
Attachment • Relationships • Identity • Shame • Narcissistic Abuse
how she works
Systemic • Attachment • Parts/IFS • Mindfulness • Ego & Pattern Work
CLIENTS
Individuals • Couples • Women & Dating • Creatives • Neurodivergent Adults
Not every thought deserves to be believed. Especially the ones that learned how to sound like you.
I want you to feel safe enough to be honest—and curious enough to question what fear has been insisting is true.
I pay attention to the beliefs your mind has learned to treat as facts—especially the ones built around shame, fear, attachment, identity, and what you think you have to do to stay safe or connected. Some of those beliefs once made perfect sense. They may just not be helping you anymore.
When something feels stuck, I get curious about how tightly a belief is being held and what might happen if we loosen it a little. I may gently challenge black-and-white thinking, question a fear-based assumption, bring in a parts lens, or suggest something different enough to interrupt the usual pattern.
Fear can sound incredibly convincing without actually telling the truth.
Sometimes that means slowing down and staying with a difficult thought long enough to see what’s underneath it. Other times it means trying something unexpected, practical, or even a little funny—because shame tends to loosen when there’s room for curiosity.
I’m not trying to make you think more positively. I want to help you notice when fear, shame, or an old protective part has taken over the microphone—and remember that you are more than the voice speaking the loudest.
The pattern usually has a reason. We can figure out what it learned to protect.
The part of you caught in the pattern may once have been trying to keep you safe.
I’m interested in the patterns that seem to repeat even when you know better—who you choose, what you tolerate, what you assume, what you avoid, and the ways you learned to protect yourself in relationships. Those patterns are rarely random.
Attachment wounds, family history, shame, trauma, identity, and past relationships can all shape what your mind and nervous system learn to expect. Sometimes the strategy that once helped you survive is the same one making your life harder now.
01 — The pattern is doing something for you
Maybe you overthink, detach, people-please, grip tightly to certainty, choose unavailable partners, ignore red flags, or listen to an internal critic that never seems satisfied. Before we try to get rid of the pattern, I want to understand what it believes it is protecting you from.
02 — Relationships make the pattern easier to see
Dating, intimacy, conflict, rejection, and attachment have a way of turning the volume up. I pay attention to what gets activated, what story your mind immediately tells you, and what you do next—because that sequence often tells us where the real work is.
03 — You can learn another response
Healing doesn’t require becoming a completely different person. We can challenge rigid beliefs, work with protective parts, experiment with new ways of responding, and build enough safety that you have more choices when the old pattern shows up.
You may know what hurts. You don’t have to know yet why it keeps happening.
01
Attachment & Dating
Anxious and avoidant patterns, emotionally unavailable partners, fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting, dating after harmful relationships, and figuring out whether the relationship you’re in actually works for you.
02
Communication breakdowns, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, mismatched growth, old injuries, and couples who still care deeply about one another but keep getting caught in the same painful conversations.
03
Harsh self-judgment, perfectionism, black-and-white thinking, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting your own perceptions, and the internal voice that somehow has a criticism prepared for every occasion.
04
Identity
ADHD, autism and other neurodivergent ways of experiencing the world; masking, sensory and social differences, queerness, identity exploration, and finding ways of living that actually fit you.
05
Trauma, Family & Relational Harm
Attachment wounds, emotionally or physically harmful relationships, narcissistic or controlling dynamics, difficult family systems, religious trauma, cultural expectations, and experiences that changed what safety or connection came to mean.
06
Creativity, Purpose & Life Transitions
Creative blocks, questions of meaning and direction, transitions, changing relationships, and periods when an old version of your life or identity no longer seems to fit.
You can take the work seriously without making every minute of it solemn.
Roxy is warm, curious, collaborative, and gently direct. She wants clients to feel profoundly respected and emotionally safe—but she also believes safety can give us enough room to challenge the stories that are keeping you stuck.
Nothing shocks or surprises me very easily.
Shame Doesn't Disqualify You
Roxy is especially comfortable with the things people hesitate to say because they feel embarrassed, contradictory, needy, messy, or difficult to explain. Her instinct is curiosity rather than judgment.
Gentle Doesn't Mean Passive
When something important needs to be named, Roxy tends to slow down, get very present, and say it directly. She pays attention to how far to push without simply abandoning the conversation when it becomes uncomfortable.
Sometimes Weird is Useful
Therapy does not always require another perfectly phrased insight. Sometimes a new experiment, an unexpected metaphor, a practical tool—or apparently an emotional-support banana—can give your nervous system another way to respond.
We'll Look for What Changes Outside the Room
Insight matters, but Roxy is also interested in what happens the next time you date, argue, shut down, spiral, second-guess yourself, or hear that familiar internal critic start talking.
You don’t have to translate yourself into something more conventional first.
The more energy you spend proving that who you are makes sense, the less energy we have for the reason you actually came to therapy.
Roxy works comfortably with LGBTQIA+ clients, people exploring sexuality or gender, people in polyamorous or consensually non-monogamous relationships, artists and creative people, and clients whose values, identities, families, or lives do not fit neatly into conventional expectations.
She is interested in how identity intersects with attachment, family history, culture, religion, relationships, shame, and the stories you learned about who you were supposed to become.
You don’t need Roxy to have lived your exact life for your experience to be taken seriously. The goal is to understand your world well enough that the work actually belongs to you.
Different doesn’t automatically mean dysfunctional.
Acceptance also gives us room to be curious. You can respect who you are and still examine whether a relationship, belief, coping strategy, boundary, or pattern is giving you the life you want.
Therapy isn’t the only place Roxy thinks about how people make meaning.
Roxy has been part of Austin’s creative communities for more than a decade. Outside the therapy room, she is a mixed-media artist, wood sculptor, porch philosopher, and—by her own description—cat whisperer.
Making things has shaped the way she thinks about change. Sometimes you know exactly what you are trying to create. Sometimes you work with what is already there, discover what the material will tolerate, make an unexpected cut, and realize halfway through that the piece wants to become something different.
Therapy can be a little like that.
You do not have to arrive with a finished vision of who you are becoming. Curiosity is enough to begin.
There’s a framework underneath the curiosity.
Roxy's Modalities
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Emotionally Focused
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gottman Method
- Imago
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Multicultural
Roxy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate whose work is informed by systemic therapy, attachment theory, mindfulness, nervous-system awareness, and parts-oriented approaches including Internal Family Systems concepts.
She is also strongly influenced by Buddhist perspectives on ego, uncertainty, awareness, and learning to relate differently to the mind rather than automatically treating every thought as an instruction.
Rather than forcing every client through one method, she draws from these ideas according to the person, relationship, and problem in front of her.
Clinical Education & Certification
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist-Associate Texas license number 205735
- M.A. in Counseling, St. Edward’s University
- B.A., The University of Texas at Austin
- Supervised by Daniel Brake, LMFT-S
- Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy for Trauma
THE RIGHT FIT MATTERS
Roxy likes to know a little about what you’re looking for before the first session. Texting is her preferred way to begin, and she’s happy to hear a little about what’s bringing you in and answer initial questions that way.
If you would rather talk first, she also offers brief 10–15 minute consultations.
And if Roxy isn’t the strongest fit, ACT has other clinicians with different styles and areas of focus—and we’re happy to help you figure out where to begin.
Marc Geronimo
LMFT-A, CHT
Consciousness Specialist • Trauma • Hypnotherapy • Couples • Altered States • Ketamine Therapy
common questions
Yes. With individuals, much of her work centers around attachment, identity, relationships, shame, and recurring patterns. With couples, she tends to be more goal-oriented and focuses closely on communication, attachment, and the patterns happening between partners.
No. Tell Roxy what has been happening and what you would like to be different. The two of you can figure out the rest from there.
Yes. Your identity is honored here. We provide a welcoming, non-judgmental space dedicated to the unique experiences of queer and trans individuals.
That is very much allowed. Roxy has a particularly nonjudgmental approach to shame and the parts of ourselves we would rather not put on the résumé.
Yes. This is an area she is particularly drawn to, including repeated relationship patterns, attachment wounds, emotionally harmful past relationships, difficulty trusting yourself, and figuring out whether a current relationship is actually right for you.