Corpus Christi Trauma-Informed Counseling & Clinical Hypnosis
• Inner Child Healing • Shadow Work • Health Issues • Family & Relationship Estrangement • Work Stress • Imposter's Syndrome
Come Home to Yourself
Create Daily Self Rituals that bring you home to yourself.
• Meet Yourself with Self-Compassion and Kindness
• Celebrate Small Wins
• Practice Self Devotion
• Build Trust, Self-Awareness
• Learn to Advocate for Your Needs
A warm, grounded space for healing trauma, easing anxiety, and restoring connection to body, mind, and spirit.
Armstrong Wellness offers somatic, holistic, and spiritually attuned counseling for grief, trauma, anxiety, and nervous system healing.
When the people you love become the source of your deepest pain, it’s easy to wonder what’s wrong with you. Often, nothing is. Old relationship patterns, unresolved trauma, chronic stress, and a dysregulated nervous system can keep us repeating painful cycles. Therapy offers a place to understand those patterns, reconnect with yourself, and begin creating relationships built on respect, authenticity, and peace.
We help adults experiencing:
• Estrangement from adult children
• Family conflict and difficult relationships
• Childhood trauma & emotional neglect
• Attachment wounds
• Boundary setting
• Anxiety related to family stress
• Grief, loss, and life transitions
• Healing from emotionally abusive relationships
• Breaking generational patterns
• Nervous system regulation after chronic stress
Psycho- Soma- Soul
• Integrated Counseling for Mind, Body, and Spirit
• Trauma healing through clinical, somatic, and spiritual care.
Tel: (361) 688-8200
For Those Ready to Invest in Their Career and Professional Growth
Offering in-person and online LPC Supervision, 40 Hour LPC Supervision and Holistic Counseling sessions for adults in Corpus Christi and across Texas that want more than traditional talk therapy ---
Hypnosis, Brain spotting, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Expressive Arts Therapy, EMDR, Somatic & Hakomi Informed Therapies for: improving relaxation, better sleep quality, releasing anger & anxiety, healing the wounds of betrayal, loss, and trauma.
Calm your nervous system, improve focus and communication, build trust, work through trauma. Heal your childhood and make your life more peaceful and finding joy in your life by turning off the inner chatter.
Cathy Armstrong MS, LPC-S, RN, Fellow-NBCCH, OIM
You may already understand your reactions, defense mechanisms, and patterns. You might have tried many ways to cope — yet still feel anxious, depleted, disconnected, or stuck. At Cathy Armstrong Wellness, counseling goes beyond basic symptom management. Together, we explore the emotional, physical, relational, and unconscious patterns that may be creating blocks to your success, your relationships, and your inner healing.
My integrative approach combines modern counseling, DBT-informed mindfulness skills, CBT-style cognitive restructuring, neuroscience, clinical hypnosis, somatic awareness, and depth-oriented therapy. For clients interested in spiritual or contemplative work, I also integrate mindfulness meditation, Buddhist psychology, and breathwork as part of a mindful, trauma-sensitive therapy process. This work is designed for adults and women who are not ready to feel better in the short term, but to understand themselves more deeply, heal painful family and relationship cycles, and create meaningful lasting change in their lives.
I integrate mindfulness, Buddhist psychology upon request, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to support deep, lasting healing.
Rather than focusing only on symptom relief, this approach helps you understand the root patterns behind anxiety, trauma, grief, and emotional overwhelm. Through mindfulness, breathwork, and somatic awareness, you’ll learn to regulate your nervous system, shift unhelpful thought patterns, and develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
This work is grounded in both modern clinical research and time-honored wisdom, offering a path toward clarity, resilience, and meaningful change.
Our minds are powerful.
Our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and habits influence how we experience life’s challenges.
Chronic stress can affect emotional well-being, physical health, and relationships.
With greater awareness and effective therapeutic tools, it is possible to develop new patterns that support healing, resilience, and lasting change.
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 is helping explain why many of these practices work and how they support emotional and physical well-being.
I offer integrate evidence-based psychotherapy with contemplative traditions supported by modern neuroscience.
Trained in meditation, breath work, trauma informed yoga, Sound Healing, guided imagery and somatic therapy to help calm the nervous system and help with emotional regulation and mood stabalization.
Attend a Group, Class, or Workshop and Learn How:
• Modern Science Is Rediscovering Ancient Healing Practices
• Ancient Practices are now Supported by Modern Neuroscience
• Find out How Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science Meet
•Explore the Science Behind Meditation, Breathwork, Yoga, and Sound Healing
Integrating Somatic, Contemplative & Jungian Perspectives
My work has been influenced by the teachings of Sandra Ingerman, MSW, whose work emphasizes healing through connection with nature, symbolism, and inner wisdom, and Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, whose Jungian-oriented approach explores dreams, archetypes, life purpose, and the unconscious as pathways to personal transformation. Combined with somatic, mindfulness-based, and neuroscience-informed approaches, these perspectives encourage greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience. In counseling, these concepts may be integrated with evidence-based psychotherapy to help clients explore patterns, strengthen mind-body awareness, foster personal growth, and develop a deeper sense of meaning and well-being. Therapeutic interventions are always individualized and provided within the scope of professional counseling practice.
Nature has long been recognized as a source of healing across many cultures. Spending intentional time outdoors through mindful walking, reflection, or contemplative practices can help reduce stress, restore attention, regulate the nervous system, and deepen a sense of connection with oneself and the natural world. When appropriate, I may encourage nature-based practices as part of an individualized wellness plan.
Ethics and inclusivity note
All contemplative practices are offered within professional counseling standards of safety, consent, and cultural humility. You remain free to define spirituality for yourself—whether as higher mind, Divine presence, universal consciousness, or a purely human path of meaning and ethics. The focus is on reducing suffering and increasing clarity, compassion, and wise action in your daily life.
6901 Holly Road Corpus Christi, Texas 78414
What Is Inner Child Healing?
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.
Expressive Arts in Counseling: A Pathway to Healing
Expressive arts therapy offers a gentle, creative pathway to healing that reaches beyond words. Sometimes our deepest emotions, memories, and patterns cannot be fully expressed through conversation alone. Through drawing, painting, collage, journaling, movement, symbolism, guided imagery, and mindful creativity, we can begin to explore the inner landscape with curiosity, compassion, and greater self-awareness.
Modern neuroscience reminds us that healing involves the whole person—mind, body, emotions, relationships, and the nervous system. Creative expression can help calm the stress response, increase emotional regulation, strengthen self-awareness, and support the integration of difficult life experiences. Rather than focusing on artistic talent or creating a perfect product, expressive arts emphasize the healing process itself. Every color, shape, image, or movement becomes an opportunity to listen more deeply to your inner wisdom.
My approach integrates expressive arts with mindfulness, somatic awareness, clinical hypnosis, breathwork, meditation, and evidence-based counseling practices. Influenced by interpersonal neurobiology, contemplative psychology, and mind-body approaches, I help clients slow down, reconnect with themselves, and discover new ways of understanding their experiences. Creative expression often opens doors to resilience, insight, self-compassion, and lasting personal growth that may be difficult to access through words alone.
Whether you are healing from anxiety, trauma, grief, chronic stress, life transitions, or simply seeking greater balance and authenticity, expressive arts can become a powerful companion on your journey. Together, we create a safe, supportive space where creativity becomes a bridge to emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and a deeper connection with your most authentic self.
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)
Addictional 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.
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 that are committed to change, moving forward, letting go to experience inner healing, inner peace, personal growth and spiritual connection to God, The Universe, the Divine or your Higher Self.
Meets the 2nd and 4 th Wednesdays from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
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 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. Cathy offices at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Corpus Christi , Texas where all faiths and no faith are welcome.
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.
Interpersonal Neurobiology
IPNB therapy can help married couples strengthen emotional regulation, improve communication, and reduce reactive conflict by understanding how the brain and relationship patterns affect each other. It also supports secure attachment, empathy, and healthier connection, which can help partners move through stress with more calm and teamwork.
Trust Building Therapy and Counseling for Couples, Relationships, Families, Marriages
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
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.
Core Areas of Focus
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.