Corpus Christi Women's Counseling & Hypnosis Services 

Tel: (361) 688-8200

Email: cathyarmstronglpc@gmail.com 

How to give yourself permission to STOP carrying other people’s burdens by: 

• Recognizing what’s yours to own versus what belongs to others. 

•Understanding you're not responsible for other people's choices, feelings, or problems.

• Releasing guilt that doesn’t actually belong to you

Common themes:

• You want to care about people without taking on their emotional weight

• You are feeling guilty for things that aren’t your fault & you stay stuck

• Other people’s dysfunction, anger, or problems are theirs to manage & you need help separating what is yours to hold

 Setting boundaries isn’t selfish - it’s healthy  

The freedom in letting go:

• When you stop carrying what isn’t yours, you have energy for your own life

• You can’t fix or save other people, and trying often hurts both of you

• Their reactions to your boundaries are their responsibility, not yours

        Cathy Armstrong            MS, LPC-S, RN

Welcome. I'm Cathy Armstrong, a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor and Registered Nurse based in Corpus Christi, Texas. With a holistic approach that honors the interconnection of mind, body, and spirit, I provide compassionate, evidence-based counseling and life coaching services to women throughout Texas.

Many of the people come see me are struggling with anxiety and self-sabotage aren’t broken — they are responding to internalized messages, emotional imprints, and fear-based conditioning formed through past experiences, relationships, or chronic stress.

In our work together, we gently identify and soften these unhelpful beliefs, residual emotional charges, and cognitive echoes, allowing your nervous system to settle and your natural clarity to return. This process helps reduce anxiety, quiet self-criticism, and restore a sense of safety, confidence, and inner authority.

Whether you're navigating life transitions, seeking spiritual growth, healing from trauma, or pursuing optimal wellness, I'm here to support you with therapeutic expertise and genuine care.

Offering both in-person sessions in Corpus Christi and secure telehealth services throughout Texas.

Holistic Counseling Services

Individual Counseling

Evidence-based psychotherapy for women addressing anxiety, depression, trauma, reproductive mental health, life transitions, and spiritual concerns. Licensed counseling services available in-person and via telehealth throughout Texas.

Self pay counseling vs. Insurance Coverage 

Insurance-Based Therapy

• Covered by insurance when medically necessary

• Diagnosis required

• Standard 45–53 minute sessions

• Structured clinical documentation

• Focus on symptom reduction

Private-Pay Integrative Services

• Self-pay only (not billable to insurance) Good Faith Estimate 

• No diagnosis required

• Flexible session lengths

• Holistic, mind-body-spirit focus

• Greater privacy and flexibility

• Ideal for depth work, integration, and personal growth

• No referral needed 

Clients may choose either option based on their needs.

Self-sabotage

Self-sabotage is rarely a lack of willpower. More often, it’s driven by unconscious emotional residues and fear-based conditioning designed to keep you safe at an earlier time in your life.

Together, we bring compassionate awareness to these patterns, helping release unhelpful beliefs and shame-based narratives so you can move forward with greater ease, choice, and self-trust.

Life Coaching for Wellness

Non-clinical coaching services: Wellness coaching focused on optimal well-being for mind, body, and spirit. Integrating functional nutrition guidance, metabolic health education, and Ayurvedic lifestyle principles for holistic wellness and personal growth. Coaching is not counseling or psychotherapy.

Specialized Therapeutic Approaches

Advanced therapeutic modalities including EMDR for trauma processing, clinical hypnotherapy, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapies, and Jungian-informed shadow work.

Clients often come in carrying:

• Fear-based or shame-based internalized messages

• Residual emotional imprints from past relationships or life events

• Cognitive echoes that replay worry, doubt, or self-criticism

• Stress-based associations that keep the body in survival mode

• Protective patterns that are no longer needed

• Borrowed fears or external projections that don’t reflect who they truly are

Holistic & Integrative Coaching 

Mindfulness-based approaches, spiritual integration, and understanding of Ayurvedic principles for mental health. Addressing the whole person through the lens of functional nutrition and metabolic health.

Telehealth Services

Convenient, secure online counseling and coaching available to clients throughout Texas. Connect from the comfort of your home while receiving the same quality care as in-person sessions.

Women's Mental Health Services

I help clients release internalized messages, fear-based conditioning, and emotional residues that drive anxiety and self-sabotage — restoring clarity, regulation, and self-trust.

Women's Mental Health

• Reproductive & hormonal mental health

• Spirituality & meaning

• Weight loss, curb emotional eating 

• Mindfulness, EMDR, Brain spotting, clinical hypnosis 

• Depth Therapy, Shadow Work 

• Jungian informed therapy

• Anxiety & Depression 

• Perinatal and postpartum mood disorders

• Infertility-related stress and grief

• Trauma recovery + informed nutrition and body-based coping

• Metabolic and medical stressors affecting mood

• Consciousness Couples Mindfulness Counseling 

• PTSD-informed lifestyle and nervous system regulation

• LPC Supervision 

• Coaching 

Healing isn’t linear. It unfolds more like a labyrinth—a steady path with turns, pauses, and return.

What may feel like revisiting old ground is often integration, not regression.

As you move into a new year, you’re invited to release what no longer serves while honoring the strength and insight you’ve already gained.

No rushing. No wrong turns. Just a grounded way forward.

Integrative Depth Therapy, Jungian Informed Approach

My counseling approach is integrative and client-centered. Sessions may incorporate mindfulness-based strategies, communication skills, building trust in relationships, trauma-informed care, somatic awareness, and other clinically appropriate therapeutic techniques to support emotional regulation, insight, and resilience. 

Who I Work With

I specialize in supporting women across Texas who are:

• emotionally stable and able to maintain daily functioning

• reflective, self-aware, and open to deeper inner work

• interested in personal growth 

.• seeking a holistic, integrative approach to healing

• facing health-related emotional changes or medical transitions

• struggling with inflammation, autoimmune disorders, weight loss, irritable bowl syndrome, endometriosis, PCOS, infertility 

• processing grief, anger, betrayal, loss, life transitions, or identity shifts

• wanting to calm their nervous system and reconnect with themselves

Tailored integrative hypnotherapy sessions draw from mindfulness-based cognitive approaches, somatic therapies, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and depth-oriented work to support insight, regulation, and meaningful change around patterns that may be holding you back.

Disclaimer: To ensure safety and appropriate care, my practice does not provide crisis stabilization or intensive trauma processing.
I am not able to accept clients who are currently experiencing:• acute emotional crisis• significant dissociation or memory disruption• paranoia or psychosis• active substance misuse or medication instability• a need for high-frequency or after-hours contact• inconsistent attendance or repeated cancellations.•clients undergoing criminal investigation, are seeking disability services, or in legal or custody disputes.
Clients needing these services are referred to a higher level of care.

Learn How the Nervous System Shapes Your Healing

When we work together, we focus on helping your nervous system move out of fear, overwhelm, and hypervigilance, and into a state of safety, clarity, and groundedness. Many people notice that when their nervous system settles, their “energy” shifts — their thoughts become calmer, relationships feel lighter, emotions regulate more easily, and they’re able to release old patterns that kept them stuck.

Different traditions around the world describe this experience in different ways, but the underlying process is the same:

when your body and mind return to balance, you naturally release fear, tension, and emotional burdens.

In therapy, this is supported through:

• somatic grounding techniques

• breathwork that regulates the vagus nerve

• mindfulness and contemplative practices

• guided visualization and relaxation

• evidence-based nervous system regulation

• trauma-informed integrative approaches

These practices help you create an internal sense of safety.

As your system comes back into balance, you may feel a greater sense of release, clarity, emotional freedom, or “letting go” of old attachments, fears, or stressors.

This may feel spiritual, energetic, or simply deeply peaceful — and all of those experiences are valid. My approach honors both the science of the nervous system and the wisdom of your inner healing process.

A Holistic - Integrative Approach to Trauma and Emotional Healing for Women & Men Across Texas Virtually or In Person

Helping You Connect With the “Inner Healer” During Grief, Anxiety, Stress, Overthinking, Trauma or Fear

In times of crisis or emotional turmoil, your body and soul know the way forward.

When someone is experiencing trauma, healing often involves more than cognitive understanding alone. The body, emotions, and deeper sense of self carry important information about what is needed for recovery. My work supports this process by listening carefully to these internal signals and honoring each person’s innate capacity for healing.

• ground & experience hope & learn to put happiness in the present moment

• listen for the voice of truth beneath your fear

• tap into the wisdom within you

• embrace the steady, resilient self that cannot be broken

Healing is not about becoming someone new —

it is remembering who you already are.

When You Are Ready, We Begin

Whether you’re navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, transitions, or searching for deeper meaning, this is a space where:

• ✨your faith is honored

• ✨ your inner wisdom is awakened

• ✨ your story is welcomed

• ✨ your healing is possible

Reach out when you’re ready.

Your path home to yourself is waiting.

Mind–Body–Nervous System Psychotherapy