Corpus Christi Integrative Holistic Counseling & Clinical Hypnosis for Mind • Body • Heart • Soul
Healing extends beyond the therapy office.
Hello and Welcome! I'm Cathy Armstrong.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, Registered Nurse, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Interfaith Minister, I offer counseling, hypnosis, coaching, educational programs, and wellness experiences that support healing of the mind, body, and spirit. Whether you’re seeking psychotherapy, nervous system regulation, breathwork, mindfulness, sound healing, or personal growth, my goal is to provide practical tools that help you create lasting change in your daily life.
Drawing from evidence-based counseling, clinical hypnosis, Buddhist psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic approaches, and mindfulness, I help adults heal from anxiety, trauma, addiction, chronic stress, autoimmune disorders, IBS, infertility, and relationship challenges.
Come Home to Yourself
At Cathy Armstrong Wellness, I offer trauma-informed, holistic healing that honors each person’s unique story, current struggles, and hopes for the future. We work collaboratively to create an individualized treatment plan that supports meaningful insight, nervous system regulation, and lasting change.
INTEGRATIVE MIND • BODY • SPIRIT THERAPIST
6901 Holly Road
Corpus Christi, Texas 78414
Helping You Get to the Root Cause of Your Emotional Distress
Identify your traumas, triggers, and reactions to stress—anger, fear, anxiety, regrets, and disappointments—and begin to heal at the root.
Become your own inner healer as we work with painful childhood memories, anxiety, worry, compulsive behaviors, trauma, grief, chronic stress, life transitions, and health or medical challenges.
We offer Whole Person Wellness Services and Holistic and integrative individual, couples, and group counseling through evidence‑based mind–body therapies, including clinical hypnosis, somatic and mindfulness approaches, and trauma‑informed care.
Healing Beyond Coping™
Rewire • Restore • Reclaim
Healing Beyond Coping™ is our integrative approach to rewire all patterns, restore your nervous system, and reclaim the parts of yourself that have been stuck in survival.
Whole Person Healing is not just about reducing symptoms. It is about restoring balance to your nervous system, reclaiming Hope, and creating a healthier relationship with your mind, body and life.
Healing Beyond Coping™
Rewire - Restore - Reclaim
Learn how your thoughts, emotions, nervous system, and life experiences influence your health, relationships, and overall well-being. Discover practical ways to calm anxiety, reduce rumination and overthinking, strengthen self-compassion, and reconnect with your inner resilience.
Whether you are navigating childhood trauma, autoimmune disorders, IBS, chronic illness, infertility, or major life transitions, counseling, clinical hypnosis, somatic therapy, mindfulness, and wellness practices can help you move out of the “Back Rooms of the Mind” and toward healing in mind, body, and spirit.
What Is the Inner Child?
The “inner child” is a term used to describe the emotional memories, experiences, beliefs, and survival strategies that developed during childhood.
These younger parts may still influence:
• Relationships
• Self-esteem
• Boundaries
• Anxiety and worry
• Emotional regulation
• Trust and intimacy
• Fear of abandonment
• People-pleasing
• Perfectionism
• Chronic self-criticism
• Feelings of not being enough
Many people are surprised to discover that they have been reacting to present-day situations from old emotional wounds rather than current reality.
What is “Integrative Therapy”?
Integrative therapy means combining multiple approaches rather than practicing only one.
What if healing isn’t just symptom reduction, but understanding the deeper relationship between psyche, body, community, spirituality, culture, and the natural world?
Examples might include:
• Somatic therapy
• Mindfulness
• Trauma therapy
• Sound, Music, Meditation, Breath
• Jungian approaches
• Spiritual practices
• Expressive arts
• Community healing
• Ecopsychology (connection with nature)
Specialized Training
• Clinical Hypnosis
• Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
• Somatic Therapy
• Trauma-Informed Yoga
• Breathwork
• Mindfulness-Based Practices
• Buddhist Psychology
• Meditation Teacher Training
• Yoga Nidra
• Qi Gong for Anxiety and Depression
• Ayurveda
• Reiki Master Training
• Sound Healing and Somatic Movement
If a client finds meaning, comfort, or spiritual connection through practices such as meditation, prayer, Reiki, crystals, sound healing, yoga, or other complementary wellness traditions, those beliefs and practices can be respectfully incorporated into the counseling process when appropriate and consistent with the client’s goals.
You may benefit from therapy if you are experiencing:
• Anxiety, overwhelm, or chronic stress
• Trauma or nervous system dysregulation
• Grief, loss, or unresolved emotional pain
• Relationship challenges or codependent patterns
• Emotional eating or compulsive coping cycles
• Life transitions, identity shifts, or burnout
• Spiritual questioning or existential uncertainty
Some clients also seek support when they feel internally “stuck,” disconnected, or no longer aligned with how they are living.
Psychedelic Curiosity and Integration Counseling
There is a quiet pull many people feel toward deeper healing. Sometimes that pull leads toward meditation, breathwork, somatic therapy, ancestral healing, nature-based spirituality, dreamwork, ritual, or curiosity about plant-based ceremonial traditions.
I offer a grounded, compassionate space to explore these questions.
I help individuals prepare for and integrate transformative experiences, including legal ketamine treatment, psychedelic experiences, spiritual emergence, meditation retreats, breathwork, and other non-ordinary states of consciousness. My approach combines somatic therapy, clinical hypnosis, attachment-informed psychotherapy, mindfulness, and interpersonal neurobiology to help clients translate insight into lasting change.
My approach is trauma-informed, spiritually sensitive, body-aware, and rooted in respect for your inner wisdom. There is no pressure, no agenda, and no promise of a particular outcome. We move slowly, listen deeply, and stay grounded in safety, ethics, and care.
If you are seeking a confidential, nonjudgmental space to explore psychedelic curiosity, plant-medicine questions, or non-ordinary experience integration, I welcome you to reach out.
Liberation: A Buddhist Psychology & Recovery Circle
A welcoming group exploring Buddhist psychology, mindfulness, compassion, and practical tools for healing from addiction, emotional suffering, and the stresses of everyday life. Open to people of all backgrounds and beliefs.
A Calm, Grounded Approach to Deep Emotional Work
Healing happens through awareness, safety, and relationship building — not pressure or force.
My approach integrates evidence-based psychotherapy with somatic awareness, mindfulness, hypnotherapy, and depth-oriented psychological work.
Cathy Armstrong Wellness 6901 Holly Road Corpus Christi, Texas 78414
Tel: (361) 688-8200
Trauma Informed Nervous System Healing & Spiritual Integration Counseling for:
• Trauma- Relationship Breakup
• Heal Childhood Trauma
• LPC Supervision
• Somatic healing
• Retreats and trainings
• Work with chronic illness and psycho-oncology and psycho immunology
Integration and Expanded States Support
Some life experiences require integration, not explanation alone.
I provide psychotherapy support for individuals processing experiences related to:
• Meditation retreats and intensive spiritual practices
• Breathwork or non-ordinary states of consciousness
• Spiritual emergence or identity shifts
.• Legally prescribed ketamine treatment
• Physician-guided medical cannabis use
This work focuses on:
• grounding and nervous system stabilization
• emotional processing and trauma-informed support
• translating experience into psychological meaning
• integrating insight into daily life and relationships
• restoring internal coherence and stability
Services do not include prescribing, recommending, or administering controlled substances.
Jungian informed therapy with somatic and neuroscience integration.
Come Home to Yourself, Release the Shame, Show Up for Yourself!
Spiritual & Somatic Healing for Trauma and Relationships
Soul-centered therapy in Corpus Christi integrates nervous system regulation, clinical counseling, and deeper self exploration. Many clients experience this as reconnecting with their core self—the part of you that remains whole beneath anxiety, trauma, or life stress. This work supports lasting change by addressing both the body and the deeper sense of meaning, clarity, and connection.
I am here to help you gently release what your body still holds—through integrative, trauma-informed, and spiritually grounded work.
I will teach you how to establish safety as a felt sense, not just a concept
A lot of what we are feeling isn’t just in our thoughts—it’s in our nervous systems. Your brain, your heart, and even your gut are constantly communicating to help us feel safe or alert.
The nervous system needs to know — in the body, not just the mind — that it’s safe enough to look at what happened with our traumas and the emotional distress and despair we experience sometimes. Somatic anchoring, breath regulation, and creating a consistent therapeutic alliance with your therapist all build this over time.
Tend the container first
Soul healing needs a vessel: stable enough sleep, enough nourishment, some daily rhythm.
Not perfection, but enough ground to stand on when things shake loose.
Restore your relationship with yourself
Trauma fractures the sense of self. Before processing our stories and diving into our wounds, we need some reconnection with who we are outside of the wound — we explore values, beauty, humor, pleasure, creativity. Whatever makes the you feel like yourself.
Cultivate self compassion and your witnessing capacity
The ability to be compassionate with ourselves as we observe our inner experiences without being swept away by it is essential.
Contemplative practices include mindfulness and journaling.
If you chose to do trauma work, you want some part of yourself to be able to stay present while another part revisits the past.
Honor the grief you already know.
Some pain has already done its work and is ready to be released.
When you acknowledge that, you make space for deeper healing.
Reconnect with your inner wisdom.
Beneath the noise of stress and old patterns, there is a steady, knowing part of you.
As your body settles, that inner clarity begins to return—guiding you toward a deeper sense of calm and connection.
Build titration skills
The soul needs to know it can approach and retreat. Teaching pendulation, resourcing, and “enough for today” as practices — not just therapeutic techniques — helps the person trust the process.
Corpus Christi, Texas | In-person & Online
This work is grounded in a calm, mindful approach that helps you reconnect with who you are beneath stress, trauma, and life experiences. Instead of focusing only on problems, therapy begins by helping you feel more centered, present, and connected to yourself.
From there, healing becomes more natural.
I bring a steady, compassionate presence into the work so you feel safe enough to slow down, explore, and understand what’s happening inside—without becoming overwhelmed. Even when things feel confusing or heavy, there is a part of you that remains clear and intact. This process helps you reconnect with that part.
We may use a combination of mindfulness, body-based (somatic) work, and attachment-focused approaches to gently restore the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and body.
This isn’t just about managing symptoms. It’s about deeper, lasting change—supporting you as a whole person: mind, body, and soul.
About Cathy Armstrong
Cathy Armstrong MS, LPC-S is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, Registered Nurse and Clinical Hypnotherapist.
Her work integrates psychotherapy, somatic awareness, mindfulness-based approaches, and depth-oriented exploration of emotional and psychological patterns. Cathy has interests in multicultural spiritual practices and world religions. She has both secular and non-secular education with doctoral studies in religious studies. Cathy is an ordained interfaith minister.
She works with individuals navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, relational challenges, and periods of identity or spiritual transition.
Soul-Centered Contemplative Psychotherapy
Soul-centered, contemplative therapy is based on a simple idea: deep down, every person already has wisdom, strength, and clarity. Even when someone is struggling or carrying trauma, that core part of them is still whole—it’s just been covered over.
Instead of focusing on what’s “wrong,” this approach helps people reconnect with what’s already right within them. By gently supporting the spirit and inner self first, it creates a sense of safety and steadiness inside. From that grounded place, people can begin to look at painful experiences without feeling overwhelmed, and healing can unfold more naturally.
Ready to Begin Therapy?
You don’t need to have everything figured out before starting.
Therapy is a space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin making sense of what feels overwhelming or unclear.
In-person and virtual sessions available throughout Texas.
Discernment Counseling, Coaching, Mentoring for Individuals and Couples
Meditation, Breathwork, Trauma Informed Yoga, Somatic Therapy
Expressive Art, Music, Sound, Movement Therapies
Holistic Integrative Counseling in Corpus Christi, Texas
Location: 6901 Holly Road Corpus Christi, Texas 78414
Our Treatment Philosophy
Healing is rarely about addressing a single symptom. Emotional distress often reflects deeper patterns involving the nervous system, subconscious beliefs, past experiences, lifestyle stressors, and the ways we have learned to cope with life’s challenges.
At Cathy Armstrong Wellness in Corpus Christi, Texas, therapy is approached through an integrative lens that recognizes the connection between mind, body, and emotional wellbeing. My work combines evidence-based psychotherapy with clinical hypnosis, nervous system regulation, and holistic mind-body awareness.
Rather than focusing only on symptom reduction, our work explores the underlying patterns that may be contributing to anxiety, trauma responses, relationship difficulties, burnout, grief, or self-defeating behaviors. Understanding these deeper dynamics allows meaningful change to occur.
Treatment may include practical strategies for emotional regulation, insight into relationship patterns, subconscious belief work through hypnosis, mindfulness practices, and somatic awareness techniques that help the nervous system move out of chronic stress.
The goal of therapy is not simply to help you cope with life’s difficulties, but to support deeper healing, personal growth, and a renewed sense of clarity, confidence, and direction.
Movement, Breathwork, Meditation, Sound to calm anxiety, worry, fear, instrusive thoughts, soothing anger
Relational Presence, Somatic Awareness & Mindfulness
Hakomi Informed Therapy-
My work is mindfulness-based and experiential, informed by Hakomi principles and contemplative traditions including Taoist and Buddhist philosophy.
At the heart of this work is relationship.
Healing does not happen only through insight or technique. It happens in the experience of being met, seen, and held in a steady, attentive presence. In a culture where many therapy sessions are dominated by screens, typing, and task-driven exchanges, I intentionally prioritize relational presence.
This means that our time together is not rushed or fragmented. I listen with my whole attention — not just to your words, but to tone, pauses, breath, posture, and emotional shifts. The counseling space is treated as a contained and respectful environment where your inner life is welcomed without interruption.
Whole-Person Healing Mode
The Whole-Person Healing Model
Emotional wellbeing is influenced by many interconnected aspects of life. True healing often occurs when we look at the whole person rather than focusing on symptoms alone. My integrative approach to counseling recognizes that psychological, biological, and experiential factors all shape how we feel, think, and respond to stress.
This work explores five core areas that influence emotional health.
1. Emotional Healing
Therapy provides a safe space to process grief, anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles. By understanding emotional patterns and unresolved experiences, clients can begin releasing the pain that keeps them feeling stuck.
2. The Nervous System & Mind-Body Connection
Chronic stress and trauma can keep the nervous system in a state of constant alert. Through mindfulness, somatic awareness, and mind-body techniques, clients learn to calm the nervous system and develop greater emotional balance.
3. Subconscious Beliefs & Patterns
Many of our behaviors are shaped by subconscious beliefs formed earlier in life. Clinical hypnosis and insight-oriented work can help identify and shift limiting beliefs that influence confidence, evrelationships, and self-worth.
4. Lifestyle and Wellness
Sleep, nutrition, movement, and daily habits can significantly influence emotional wellbeing. Counseling may include supportive discussions about lifestyle patterns that affect stress, energy, and mood.
5. Meaningful, purpose, and play therapy
Many people reach a point in life where they begin asking deeper questions about identity, purpose, or personal direction. Counseling can help individuals reconnect with their values, inner wisdom, and sense of meaning.
The Goal of Therapy
The purpose of integrative counseling is not simply to reduce symptoms, but to help individuals develop resilience, self-understanding, and a stronger connection to themselves. When emotional insight, nervous system regulation, and subconscious change come together, meaningful transformation becomes possible.
Integrative counseling recognizes that emotional wellbeing is influenced by many interconnected factors. Therapy may include elements of cognitive and behavioral strategies, trauma-informed care, mind-body approaches, and subconscious change work through clinical hypnosis.
Clients often seek this approach when they want more than traditional talk therapy. Integrative work can be helpful for anxiety, trauma recovery, grief, relationship struggles, life transitions, and patterns that feel difficult to change on a conscious level alone.
By combining psychological insight with practical tools and deeper subconscious work, therapy can help create lasting shifts in how you think, feel, and relate to yourself and others.
Nervous system–informed, trauma-aware psychotherapy grounded in neurobiology, mindfulness, and the mind–body connection.
Hakomi-informed and mindfulness-based, integrating somatic awareness and principles drawn from contemplative psychology. Sessions work gently and experientially, supporting clients in developing awareness, compassion, and embodied integration.
Life coaching services are offered separately from licensed counseling services.
Lifestyle mental health may include gentle exploration and support around:
• Sleep and circadian rhythm
• Stress physiology and nervous system regulation
• Nutrition-informed mental health education
• Energy, fatigue, and emotional regulation
• Daily rhythms and routines
• Movement and embodied awareness
• Social connection and boundaries
• Meaning, values, and spiritual grounding
All work is individualized and approached with compassion and flexibility.
Nutrition Informed Mental Health Educator
Nutrition plays a foundational role in mental health by influencing energy, mood stability, stress tolerance, and nervous system regulation. Nutrition-informed mental health support focuses on education and awareness around patterns such as blood sugar swings, inflammation, gut–brain communication, and how nourishment affects anxiety, depression, and trauma responses. This work does not involve prescribing diets or medical nutrition therapy, but supports clients in developing sustainable, compassionate relationships with food in collaboration with their healthcare providers when appropriate.
A Grounded, Integrative Philosophy
Lifestyle mental health recognizes that healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about creating the conditions that allow the nervous system and psyche to function as they were designed to.
Small, consistent shifts—when aligned with a person’s values and capacity—can support lasting emotional change.
Informed Cutting Edge Metabolic Mental Health & Functional Medicine–
Emerging research shows that mental health is closely connected to metabolic and physiological processes, including blood sugar regulation, inflammation, gut–brain signaling, hormonal balance, and mitochondrial function. Metabolic mental health explores how these systems interact with mood, anxiety, trauma recovery, and emotional regulation.
In my work, metabolic mental health principles are integrated through education, awareness, and behavior support—not medical diagnosis or treatment. This approach helps clients understand how daily lifestyle factors may support brain health and nervous system stability alongside counseling and medical care.
Hours By Appointment Only
Monday-Thursday 10 AM to 8 PM
Friday & Saturday 9 AM to 2 PM
