Therapeutic & Coaching Services

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Therapy Services at Tend Within Counseling & Coaching provides a compassionate and supportive space to explore your thoughts, emotions, and relationships. Whether you’re seeking assistance with anxiety, trauma, identity exploration or relationship challenges, therapy offers tools and insights to foster healing and personal growth. Maddie provides a warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative environment where all of your parts are welcome.

Drawing from evidence-based, client centered, and trauma informed approaches - including EMDR, IFS, Sand Tray Therapy, and EFT for couples - we will work together to deepen self-understanding, strengthen emotional wellbeing, and create lasting, meaningful change. Therapy can be the space where healing begins and where you learn to tend within, so you can show up more fully for yourself and the people you love.

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Individual Therapy

Individual therapy with Maddie incorporates EMDR, IFS, and Sand Tray therapy to help clients effectively process trauma, increase self-awareness, and promote emotional healing. Maddie's compassionate approach uses these innovative techniques to support personal growth and resilience.

Individual Therapy is available in-person in Austin, Texas and virtually using Simple Practice.

Couples Therapy & Coaching

Couples therapy and coaching with Maddie uses Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help partners identify and transform negative patterns that create disconnection. Through a supportive and collaborative process, Maddie guides couples towards building secure emotional bonds, deepening understanding, and fostering lasting connection.

Couple’s Therapy is available in-person in Austin, Texas and virtually using Simple Practice. Couple’s Coaching is available across the United States virtually using Simple Practice.

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Gender Affirming Letters of Support

Letters of Support for gender-affirming surgery with Maddie are written in alignment with WPATH Standards of Care, ensuring they meet all clinical and insurance requirements.

Gender Affirmation Letters are done virtually in Texas using Simple Practice.

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder”

- Rumi (est. 1300s)