Texas Women’s Mental Health Counseling, Hypnosis, & LPC Supervision in Corpus Christi, Texas

Welcome

Empower Her Wellness Center offers integrative counseling for women navigating anxiety, chronic illness, life transitions, and the search for a deeper sense of balance. Led by Cathy Armstrong, MS, LPC-S, RN, with over 30 years of clinical experience, our approach honors that healing rarely happens through symptom management alone — it happens through connection, understanding, and a therapeutic relationship strong enough to hold the whole picture of who you are.

Compassionate, evidence-based counseling for women in Corpus Christi, with secure telehealth therapy available throughout Texas.

My Approach

As both a Licensed Professional Counselor -Supervisor and Registered Nurse, my work integrates mental health care with whole-person wellness. I bring specialized training in women’s mental, spiritual, psychological health and wellness with advanced education from Harvard Medical School Women’s Health and the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Certificte in Plant Based Nutrition.

Areas I Serve Virtually Across Texas 

Garland | Lubbock | Plano | Corpus Christi | Arlington| El Paso | Fort Worth | Dallas | San Antonio | Houston

Who I Work With 

If you are interested in working with a therapist with a multi disciplinary multifaceted multi layered approach to Holistic Counseling and are interested in working to make change with your thoughts, your feelings, your beliefs, your reactions and your activities and the choices you make I might be the therapist for you. I believe that Your mind, your body, and your daily life were never meant to be treated separately.

Whether it's a hormonal transition, a chronic diagnosis, or a nervous system stuck in overdrive, most women are handed fragmented care — a prescription here, a referral there. This practice treats the whole picture as one conversation.

A holistic mind body and spirit practice in Corpus Christi for women by a woman that is a RN, license, professional, counselor, supervisor, and ordained interfaith minister with both secular and non-secular education.

Whole Person Wellness 

Anxiety doesn’t show up alone. Neither does grief, or a body stuck in fight-or-flight, or a life transition that’s upended everything you thought was steady. This practice meets you wherever you’re standing — here’s what we walk through together:

• Addictions, Anger, Anxieties 

• Complex PTSD, Trauma 

• Binge Eating, Emotional Eating Disorders, Bulemia 

• OCD, Panic, Chronic Worry, Phobias 

• Enmeshed Relationships, Codependency 

• Trust, Sexuality, Body Image, Resistant Weight Loss 

Mental Wellness 

Mindfulness and emotional regulation are the foundation of the work here — paired with the resilience and cognitive flexibility that make it possible to meet life’s hardest moments without losing yourself. Self-compassion, healthy relationships, and rebuilding trust in your own judgment are woven throughout, because mental wellness isn’t just managing symptoms. It’s reclaiming a relationship with yourself that actually feels good.

Cathy Armstrong, MS, LPC-S, RN, brings over 30 years of clinical experience and advanced specialty certifications in mental health counseling for women and women’s health and wellness. Her interdisciplinary background — as a Registered Nurse and Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor — informs advanced training in complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety disorders, OCD, sexuality and intimacy, interpersonal neurobiology, and clinical hypnotherapy.

She provides integrative counseling for women navigating infertility and preconception challenges, hormonally-driven weight resistance, and the emotional shifts of perimenopause and menopause.

Spiritual Wellness 

True wellness reaches beyond symptoms and strategies into something deeper — a sense of meaning, connection, and wholeness that no checklist can provide. Many women carry their struggles not just in the mind and body, but in questions of purpose and identity, and healing is often more sustainable when counseling makes room for that.

Cathy Armstrong integrates a spiritually-attuned, whole-person approach into her clinical work — honoring each client’s own values, beliefs, and sense of meaning, whatever framework or tradition that comes from. This isn’t about a specific practice or technique; it’s about ensuring your counseling accounts for the full picture of who you are, not just the presenting concern.

For clients seeking dedicated spiritual or energy-based work — such as Reiki, meditation instruction, or shamanic practice — Cathy also offers this through a separate, non-clinical practice, Sacred Heart Healing.

Physical Wellness 

We offer classes, groups, and workshops in Functional medicine nutrition,  principles and the science behind anti inflammatory diets, and plant-based  wellness education.  We offer clinical counseling for individuals navigating medical anxiety & trauma or coping with the internal battles regarding health related stress of: heart disease, autoimmune disorders, kidney disease, and metabolic health is woven together here with support for trauma, chronic stress, weight loss, and obesity — alongside the gut-brain connection, mental health, sleep, breathwork, and the everyday lifestyle habits that support lasting well-being.

Mindfulness and emotional regulation are the foundation here, paired with the cognitive flexibility and resilience that make it possible to meet life’s hard moments without losing yourself. Self-compassion, healthy relationships, and the steady rebuilding of trust in your own judgment are woven through the work — because mental wellness isn’t just managing symptoms, it’s reclaiming a relationship with yourself that actually feels good.

About Cathy

I'm Cathy Armstrong, I work at the intersection of nervous system science, trauma healing, and integrative care, drawing on my background as a therapist, Lifestyle and Wellness Coach and registered nurse to support people whose bodies have been carrying more than their minds can name.

Together we work at the level of the nervous system and the soul, integrating interpersonal neurobiology, somatic movement and breath, Brainspotting, energy psychology, and spiritually grounded care so your mind, body, and spirit are finally on the same team.

A specialized path for gentle clinical hypnosis, intuitive inner work, shame release, somatic awareness, and subconscious obstacle removal, heal and reconnect with your authentic self and your soul.

www.sacredselfhypnosis.com 

Our Approach Personal

Unlock your full potential and embrace transformative change. We guide you through processes of empowerment and personal development.

Depending on what fits you, we may draw on:

• Somatic and Hakomi Informed Body Based Therapies 

• EMDR, Brainspotting, Neuroscience, Guided Imagery for Trauma, Addictions, Complex Trauma, PTSD

• Clinical hypnosis, to help your nervous system access a felt sense of calm, not just an idea of it

• Interpersonal neurobiology and parts work, to understand why certain situations trigger anxiety and build a different relationship with those parts of you

• DBT mindfulness skills, for concrete tools you can use between sessions

• Depth-oriented and expressive approaches, when anxiety is rooted in something older than the current stressor

• Buddhist psychology and Spiritual practices are interwoven into our work together upon request