Whole-Person Wellness for Change and Transformation 

With Cathy Armstrong, MS, LPC-S, RN

Cathy Armstrong provides counseling, clinical hypnosis, and integrative wellness services for adults seeking meaningful, sustainable change. Her compassionate, whole-person approach brings together counseling, mindfulness, nervous-system awareness, somatic practices, breathwork, meditation, and wellness education to support balance, resilience, and self-understanding.

Cathy Armstrong, MS, LPC-S, RN, F-NBCCH provides counseling, clinical hypnosis, and integrative wellness services in Corpus Christi, Texas.

With more than 35 years of experience in nursing, mental health, and whole-person care, Cathy helps adults seeking support for personal growth, emotional well-being, life transitions, and lasting change.
Her approach combines compassionate counseling with mindfulness, nervous-system-informed practices, clinical hypnosis, and practical wellness support—always tailored to the individual.

Nutrition, Metabolic Health & Nervous System Regulation

Cathy incorporates whole-person wellness education to help clients explore how nutrition, daily rhythms, movement, sleep, and stress patterns may influence energy, mood, and overall well-being. This supportive work is integrated with counseling and tailored to each person’s goals, needs, and appropriate scope of care.

Mind-Body-Spirit Integration

Drawing on world religions, mystical traditions, and Ayurvedic wellness principles, Cathy helps clients reconnect body, mind, and spirit—addressing not just symptoms, but the deeper questions of meaning, purpose, and healing.

Why Choose an Integrative Holistic Approach?

Real healing does not happen through one modality alone. Cathy’s integrative, trauma-informed approach brings together somatic therapy, polyvagal-informed nervous system regulation, EMDR, trauma-informed yoga, clinical hypnosis, nutritional science, and ancestral and Indigenous healing wisdom.
With more than 40 years of clinical experience as an LPC-S, RN, and F-NBCCH, Cathy offers a coherent whole-person approach that honors the nervous system, body, mind, and spirit as connected parts of healing and recovery.
She also trains and supervises clinicians who want to build this same integrative capacity—moving beyond single-modality protocols to meet the full complexity of the people they serve.

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Our minds are powerful.

For thousands of years, Buddhist monks, yogis, and contemplative traditions have practiced techniques that calm the mind, regulate the nervous system, and cultivate resilience. Today, neuroscience helps explain how many of these practices can support emotional and physical well-being.
Cathy integrates evidence-based psychotherapy with contemplative traditions and modern neuroscience, offering Corpus Christi clients practical tools grounded in both clinical knowledge and lived practice.

Integrative Trauma-Informed Care

Real healing does not happen through one modality alone. Cathy’s integrative, trauma-informed approach brings together somatic therapy, polyvagal-informed nervous system regulation, EMDR, trauma-informed yoga, clinical hypnosis, nutritional science, and ancestral and Indigenous healing wisdom.
With more than 40 years of clinical experience as an LPC-S, RN, and F-NBCCH, Cathy offers a coherent whole-person approach that honors the nervous system, body, mind, and spirit as connected parts of healing and recovery.
She also trains and supervises clinicians who want to build this same integrative capacity—moving beyond single-modality protocols to meet the full complexity of the people they serve.

Meditation for nervous system regulation.

Meditation can support nervous system regulation by strengthening awareness, calming stress reactivity, and building greater emotional resilience. Rooted in longstanding contemplative traditions and supported by modern neuroscience, these practices can be adapted to each client’s needs and comfort level.
Cathy integrates meditation, breathwork, trauma-informed yoga, sound healing, guided imagery, and somatic therapy within her counseling and clinical hypnosis work. These approaches are used thoughtfully to support grounding, emotional regulation, mood stability, and whole-person well-being.

Guided imagery, sound healing, Polyvagal theory, meditation and somatic therapy for deep relaxation and inner healing

Groups, Classes, Workshops

Explore practical approaches to nervous system regulation, mindfulness, resilience, and whole-person healing through educational groups, classes, and workshops.

• Modern Neuroscience Is Rediscovering Ancient Healing Practices

Explore how contemporary neuroscience is helping us understand meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and other contemplative practices.

• Recovery Dharma Study Group for Clients

A Buddhist-inspired approach to recovery, mindfulness, compassion, and freedom from addictive patterns.

• Meditation/Breathwork/Trauma Informed Yoga/Sound Healing

A multi-sensory approach to nervous system    regulation, combining stillness, breath, gentle movement, and vibrational sound to support deep rest and healing.

Working with Nature

Learn more about how nature-based practices support whole-person healing.

Nature can support grounding, reflection, and nervous system regulation. Cathy incorporates nature-based practices into her integrative work through mindful time outdoors, breathwork in natural settings, and guided experiences that draw on seasonal rhythms and the restorative qualities of the natural world.
These practices are thoughtfully integrated with counseling, clinical hypnosis, somatic therapy, and trauma-informed care to support emotional well-being, resilience, and whole-person healing.