Alexis Harbin, LPC Associate

Empowering Mindful Healing & Resilience for Teens and Adults Across Texas. Dedicated to providing compassionate, trauma-informed telehealth support to help you navigate life’s challenges, build self-worth, and foster meaningful connection.

Taking the step to seek therapy requires courage, self-awareness, and a willingness to invest in your own emotional well-being. Whether you are navigating a acute personal crisis, carrying the long-term weight of trauma, or simply feeling stuck in patterns that no longer serve you, you do not have to walk through it alone.

I believe that meaningful, lasting psychological growth occurs within a space where you feel genuinely seen, heard, and respected. My clinical work is rooted in person-centered principles, which means I view you as the ultimate expert on your own life. My role is not to give you a one-size-fits-all prescription for living, but to walk alongside you as an empathetic, objective, and skilled guide. Together, we explore the underlying roots of your distress, build tangible coping strategies, and cultivate the internal resilience necessary to navigate life with clarity and confidence.

Therapy with me is collaborative, transparent, and grounded in real-world practicality. Life does not happen in a textbook, and effective mental health care shouldn't feel like a rigid academic exercise. I strive to build a therapeutic alliance where you feel completely comfortable laying down the masks, defense mechanisms, and societal expectations you carry every day. In our sessions, you will find a nonjudgmental harbor where all of your experiences—including the painful, complex, or confusing ones—can be processed safely and constructively.

My clinical approach is deeply informed by extensive, hands-on experience across diverse clinical environments and high-acuity settings. Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege of working with individuals facing profound personal struggles, complex trauma, and acute psychiatric distress.

Crisis Intervention & Domestic Violence Recovery
My background includes dedicated clinical work at a specialized community shelter and support center for female victims of domestic violence. Working on the front lines of crisis intervention, I provided comprehensive trauma counseling, psychoeducation, and emotional stabilization for women escaping intimate partner abuse, coercive control, and domestic trauma.

This work gave me an intimate understanding of the complex psychological dynamics surrounding trauma, power imbalances, and survival mechanisms. I specialize in helping individuals step out of the cycle of abuse, navigate the severe anxiety and hypervigilance that often follow trauma, re-establish personal boundaries, rebuild shattered self-esteem, and safely reconstruct their lives with autonomy and confidence.

High-Acuity Psychiatric Care
Currently, I also serve on staff at a state psychiatric hospital, where I provide clinical care and therapeutic interventions for individuals experiencing severe, acute mental health challenges and profound psychological crises.

This high-acuity background equips me with advanced skills in crisis management, mood stabilization, complex diagnostic considerations, and risk mitigation. Working daily with severe psychiatric conditions gives me a grounded, highly realistic understanding of human suffering, emotional regulation, and brain health. It allows me to remain calm, structured, and deeply supportive even when clients present with overwhelming distress, intense emotional dysregulation, or acute life disruptors.

Educators & Small Business Owners
Prior to expanding my clinical focus, I worked as a high school educator and co-owned a local business alongside my spouse. These real-world professional experiences provide me with a unique, pragmatic perspective on systemic stress, organizational pressure, relational dynamics, and daily burnout. Having worked inside secondary education systems and managed small business operations, I possess a deep empathy for the unique pressures felt by students, educators, corporate professionals, and entrepreneurs alike.

Specialized Areas of Focus & Practice
I provide individual and relational therapy across a broad range of mental health concerns. My primary areas of practice include:

1. Trauma, PTSD, and Domestic Abuse Recovery
Trauma affects the body, mind, and spirit. Whether you have experienced acute trauma (such as a recent violent event, severe accident, or sudden loss) or complex, long-term developmental trauma (such as childhood emotional neglect or years of abusive dynamics), trauma fundamentally alters how your nervous system perceives safety.

Processing traumatic memories safely without becoming re-traumatized.

Reducing physical symptoms of trauma, including hypervigilance, panic reactions, and chronic tension.

Dismantling deep-seated beliefs of guilt, self-blame, shame, and unworthiness.

Restoring a sense of bodily autonomy, personal agency, and healthy relational boundaries.

2. High-Acuity Anxiety, OCD, Burnout, and Mood Disorders
Chronic anxiety and depression can make even simple daily tasks feel like overwhelming obstacles. My approach combines cognitive and somatic strategies to help you break free from cycle-driven anxiety.

Anxiety & Panic: Identifying triggers, breaking cognitive distortion patterns, and learning somatic grounding techniques to regulate your nervous system.

Depression & Mood Stabilization: Rebuilding daily momentum, fostering motivation through gentle behavioral activation, and addressing underlying core beliefs.

Burnout & High-Achiever Stress: Assisting perfectionists, corporate leaders, and medical or educational professionals who suffer from chronic exhaustion, imposter syndrome, and difficulty unplugging from work demands.

3. ADHD & Executive Functioning in Adolescents and Adults
Living with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in a world built for neurotypical schedules can lead to overwhelming shame, procrastination, and burnout. Whether you were diagnosed in childhood or are discovering your neurodivergence as an adult, I provide practical, strengths-based support.

Developing realistic time-management, organization, and task-prioritization frameworks.

Managing emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD).

Building strategies that honor your unique neurodivergent brain rather than forcing you into rigid, ineffective molds.

Navigating ADHD care options, with or without medication management.

4. Adolescents & Teen Mental Health (Ages 15+)
Adolescence is one of the most turbulent developmental stages in life. Teens today face unprecedented levels of academic pressure, social complexity, identity questions, and peer conflict.

Establishing healthy coping mechanisms for social anxiety, school burnout, and performance anxiety.

Navigating peer relationships, bullying, and identity development.

Fostering open communication and healthier boundaries between teens and their families.

5. Couples & Relational Therapy
Healthy relationships require continuous nurturance, clear communication, and mutual respect. I work with couples who are feeling disconnected, stuck in repetitive arguments, or struggling to recover from breaches of trust.

Uncovering negative communication cycles and replacing defensiveness with constructive expression.

Rebuilding emotional intimacy, empathy, and security within the relationship.

Developing practical conflict-resolution tools to navigate major life transitions, parenting stress, and financial pressure.

Modalities & Therapeutic Framework
My therapeutic style is integrative, drawing from evidence-based clinical modalities tailored specifically to your unique goals, personality, and presenting needs. I do not believe in forcing a client into a rigid therapeutic protocol; instead, we customize our approach together.

Person-Centered Therapy (PCT): Providing unconditional positive regard, genuine empathy, and an authentic therapeutic presence where you feel fully accepted without judgment.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Examining the complex interplay between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to help you identify and reframe unhelpful cognitive patterns.

Trauma-Informed Care: Prioritizing safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment in every session to ensure you never feel rushed or invalidated.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): Identifying your existing strengths and internal resources to construct clear, practical steps toward achievable goals.

Somatic & Regulation Techniques: Integrating breathwork, grounding exercises, and nervous system psychoeducation to help you manage emotional overwhelm in real-time.

What to Expect in Our Work Together
Starting therapy can feel intimidating, especially if you are unsure of what the process looks like. From our very first interaction, my goal is to make the experience clear, predictable, and reassuring.

Initial Intake & Assessment
Our initial session serves as a comprehensive discovery conversation. We will review your personal history, discuss current stressors, explore relevant background details, and clarify what you hope to achieve through therapy. This is also an opportunity for you to evaluate whether my style feels like the right fit for your needs.

Ongoing Session Structure
Subsequent sessions are structured around your immediate needs while maintaining focus on your overarching goals. Some sessions may focus on acute problem-solving or processing a difficult event that occurred during the week. Other sessions may dive deeper into long-standing emotional patterns, trauma resolution, or developing specific psychological skills.

Telehealth Convenience & Accessibility
All services are provided virtually through secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth technology across the State of Texas. Virtual therapy allows you to participate in high-quality care from the comfort, privacy, and safety of your own home, office, or private space.