Cathy Armstrong MS, LPC-S, RN, F-NBCCH, OIM, Secular and Non -Secular Education
Somatic & Nervous System Regulation Therapy
6901 Holly Road Corpus Christi, Texas, 78414
6901 Holly Road
Corpus Christi, Texas 78414
Workshops, Classes, and Much More...
Services and Specialties
Located in Corpus Christi, Texas, Cathy Armstrong Wellness offers integrative counseling, coaching, clinical hypnotherapy, and spiritually informed guidance for individuals seeking emotional healing, personal growth, and deeper self-awareness.
This holistic approach blends evidence-based psychology with mind-body-spirit practices that support healing of the nervous system, emotional wellbeing, and subconscious patterns.
Health and Wellness Classes, Nutrition and Functional Medicine Education, Lifestyle and Somatic Movement,
Many individuals seek counseling or coaching when they feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship challenges, grief, burnout, or major life transitions.
Others are simply ready to break free from old patterns, strengthen their confidence, and create meaningful change in their lives.
Cathy Armstrong, LPC-S, RN, Clinical Hypnotherapist, brings an integrative perspective that combines psychological insight, somatic awareness, mindfulness practices, and subconscious change work.
This whole-person approach recognizes that lasting healing often involves both understanding the mind and supporting the body’s natural capacity for regulation and resilience.
Clients in Corpus Christi and throughout Texas seek this work to develop emotional balance, build healthier relationships, release limiting beliefs, and reconnect with their inner strength and purpose.
Polyvagal Grounding Exercises, Mindfulness, Trauma Informed Yoga, Theraputic Breath Work
Therapies
Our work may include modalities such as DBT, EMDR, IFS, Hakomi informed therapy, somatic approaches, CBT, trauma-informed yoga, and ego states work. We help clients struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body image concerns, self-harm, ADHD, mood instability, and other emotional or behavioral challenges.
What makes this approach different is the focus on root causes, not just symptom management. We look at how trauma, chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, lifestyle patterns, and core beliefs may be shaping emotional wellbeing. Treatment may also include wellness coaching, nutrition-informed support, functional or lifestyle-oriented strategies, and skills-based groups to encourage lasting change.
We believe healing happens when biological, emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual factors are considered together. Our goal is to help clients build stability, resilience, self-understanding, and meaningful change that supports long-term wellbeing.
Meditation and Ayurveda Self Care Classes
Integrative Counseling in Corpus Christi, Texas
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.
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.
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
