Healing Relationships...       Healing the Self

Psychotherapy helps with depression; anxiety disorders, such as panic attacks, phobias, and post-traumatic stress;  marriage, divorce, anger , sex and other relationship issues;  adults emotionally, physically or sexually abused as children; grief; womens' issues; stress management and communication. I have over 30 years of counseling & psychotherapy experience. I am a Level 2 EMDR Therapist and a Board Certified Sex Therapist.      

I provide a safe environment and use an active, forthright style to help you:

  • get to the real heart of the problems you are facing

  • "rewire" emotional triggers so there's more competence, less pain

  • change old patterns and meet life challenges in new ways

  • use existing conflict to breathe new life into relationships

  • heal wounds from trauma, abuse and neglect

  • relieve anxiety and panic, cure phobias

  • change feelings of emptiness and worthlessness 

  • deal with stress, depression, and excessive anger

  • explore sexual concerns and dysfunction 

  • move through grief, including divorce recovery and pet loss

Some of the therapeutic approaches and techniques I use include:

  • Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Hypnosis
  • Self-Relations Psychotherapy
  • Relationship Therapy
  • Sex Therapy
  • EMDR

These tools help you face problems with curiousity and presence of mind, rather than with old behavior patterns, allowing new possibilities and opportunities to emerge.

More than 30 years of study and practice allow me to help you define and accomplish your goals in a timely manner. Married over 30 years, I have learned a great deal about nurturing the good in relationships to keep them alive, meeting inevitable difficulties with resolve and creativity, and using problems as motivation to create a path to deep healing. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson, love can make you want to be a better person.

Occasionally I work with an individual or a couple in a relationship beyond repair. If a client decides to end a relatioship, we work toward an ending that is respectful of everyone involved. 

I am grateful to have a profession I enjoy, one in which my natural interests and talents are of benefit to my clients. My work is practical, and it goes deep. If this sounds interesting, please call for a consultation.

In addition to my clinical pactice, I am available for supervision toward Social Work Licensure and case consultation.

Seyma Calihman, LCSW • 605 Baylor St.

Austin, Texas 78703 • 512 474-9020 Ext.1