About Austin
Austin MacKey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. He focuses on practical steps people can use right away. His style aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful for daily life.
Austin pays attention to each person's history and how past experiences affect current reactions. He works with clients on things like family of origin issues, communication problems, and perfectionism.
Background and approach
Sessions also address social anxiety, isolation, and questions about life purpose. He uses a mix of evidence-based techniques to build skills for managing anger, improving emotional regulation, and reducing overwhelm. That often looks like practicing new ways to handle stressful moments and trying small changes between sessions.
The emphasis is on skills people can use outside the therapy room. Austin also supports people dealing with body image concerns, caregiver stress, and challenges common for young adults and men. He helps clients examine patterns, practice healthier responses, and strengthen self-compassion.
Work is paced to each person's needs. Over three years of professional experience inform his work, and he aims to create an environment where clients feel heard and respected. He encourages collaboration so clients can set clear goals and notice progress in manageable steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Austin draws on several evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work online. One common approach focuses on building emotional regulation skills by teaching specific coping strategies for intense moments, which helps with anger, anxiety, and stress. Another approach emphasizes developing social and communication skills through role practice and direct feedback, useful for social anxiety and relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Austin collaborates with each person to identify goals and tries methods that fit the client’s needs and preferences. Together they adjust the plan over time based on what is helpful and what is not working.
Online therapy with this provider offers flexible formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins or shorter emotional processing, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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