Colors of Austin Counseling

Starting therapy can feel intimidating.

If you’ve ever wondered:
• ‘What do I even talk about?’
• ‘What if I cry?’
• ‘How do I know if therapy is right for me?’
• ‘What if I don’t know where to start?’

You are not alone.

Therapy is not about having the ‘perfect’ words.

It’s about having a space where you get to show up honestly.

We hope this answers a few common questions we hear often. ✨

As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, we’re feeling grateful for the team behind COAC. 🤍

Our clinicians, interns, and staff bring a wide range of identities, experiences, specialties, and perspectives to this work. Together, we’re committed to creating spaces where people feel seen, supported, understood, and connected.

Whether through therapy, community partnerships, workshops, groups, outreach, or education, we’re grateful for the opportunity to support our community every day.

Thank you to our team, our clients, and our community for being part of the conversation.

You do not have to be falling apart to deserve support.

Therapy is not only for crisis.

Sometimes therapy looks like:
• wanting healthier relationships
• learning boundaries
• processing stress
• healing childhood wounds
• navigating burnout
• understanding yourself better
• wanting more peace in your life

Mental health care can be preventative, supportive, restorative, and life-giving.

You are allowed to seek support before things become unbearable.

That alone is enough reason. 🤎

Healing was never meant to happen in isolation.

We’re excited to be part of Sanando Nuestra Mente — a community-centered event focused on mental health, connection, culture, and collective healing.

At COAC, we believe mental health care should feel accessible, affirming, and rooted in community.

We hope to see you there as we continue creating spaces where people feel seen, supported, and safe enough to heal.

More details in stories. ✨

Last night, members of our team had the honor of attending opening night of the Cine Las Américas International Film Festival as the official mental health partner of this year’s festival. We watched American Pachuco, a powerful film centered around the work and legacy of Luis Valdez and the Chicano Movement.

The film explored identity, belonging, culture, grief, resistance, and the deeply layered experience of being Chicano, Latino, Tejano, Mexicano — often feeling connected to many places while still searching for home within yourself.

As mental health professionals, these are stories we witness every day in the therapy room. So many people are carrying the wounds, silence, survival, and resilience of generations before them while trying to make sense of who they are and where they belong.

There was something incredibly powerful about sitting in community with people who are committed to telling these stories through film, art, and lived experience. Representation matters. Storytelling matters. Community healing matters.

We are deeply grateful to support a festival that honors culture, history, artistry, and the voices of people who lived these experiences. 🤎

Meet part of the heart behind COAC. 🤎

One thing we deeply value here is connection.

Not just between therapist and client — but within our team too.

Every clinician at Colors of Austin Counseling brings their own lived experience, personality, specialties, and humanity into the therapy room.

We want you to know the people behind the practice because finding the right fit in therapy matters.

Today we’re spotlighting one of our incredible clinicians and the work they do within our community.

Drop a 👋 below and show them some love.

Join us for our next storytime at BookPeople 💛📚

Led by Claudia Hernandez Vargas, LCSW, this session is designed to help children explore and understand their emotions through story and creativity.

We’ll begin with a reading of The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions, where children are introduced to feelings like happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and calm through color and simple, relatable language.

After the story, children will create their own “emotion monsters,” using color to represent different feelings. They’ll be encouraged to name the emotion and share a moment they’ve experienced it, helping build emotional awareness, vocabulary, and self-expression.

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✨ What children will take away:
• Listen: Engage with a story that introduces emotions through color
• Learn: Identify and understand different feelings in a simple, relatable way
• Create: Design a personalized emotion monster using color and imagination
• Grow: Build emotional awareness, vocabulary, and self-expression skills

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🗓 May 23
⏰ 10:30–11:00 AM
📍 BookPeople

Best for ages 3–9 (all are welcome!)