MOAR psychotherapy
INDIVIDUAL & COUPLES COUNSELING | AUSTIN ESSIQUE, LPCC
feeling overwhelmed, Disconnected, and/or stuck in patterns that no longer serve you?
WHETHER YOU Are healing from traumatic experiences, navigating life transitions, or seeking a deeper sense of belonging, we offer a grounded, compassionate, and strategic space to reconnect…
with your body’s rhythm, your mind’s meaning, and your spirit’s longing for wholeness.
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Invest in the Individual | Bottom- Up - BODY | FEELINGS & BEHAVIORS - [“Tissue Box”]
This lays the foundation of healing and growth: trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, client-led, developmental, and multicultural. Rooted in reparative relationship, this work is attuned to self-compassion, self-awareness, nervous system regulation, agency, autonomy, embodiment, and the development of coping skills. This is an intentional space for authentic dialogue, where you are encouraged to express and feel with openness and vulnerability.
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Conscious Healthy Community | Middle-out - MIND | COGNITIONS [“Tool box”]
Once stabilization, trust, and safety are achieved, we can begin to reinforce the exploration of our Selves and our social worlds through psychological formulation, structured intervention, and collaborative accountability. This stage draws from cognitive-behavioral theories (CBT, DBT, ACT), as well as psychodynamic-analytic, humanistic, and systems-based modalities. Together we build capacity, insight, and self-determination while fostering measurable improvements in quality of functioning and life. Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Strengths-Solutions-based approaches guide this process of integration and individuation.
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Community-based, Co-creation| Top-Down- SPIRIT | BELIEF [“Soap Box”]
The final stage deepens to embrace the existential, collective, and transpersonal roots of wellbeing and existence. With humility, we honor lived experience, cultural narrative, and spiritual wisdom. Our work becomes a portal for transformation, further illuminating one’s voice, passion, and purpose. Through accessible, sustainable care and community-rooted pathways, we aim to foster not only personal transformation but also connection to a broader field of care: a transpersonal community committed to sustainable wellbeing and collective co-creation.
*Though outlined sequentially, the stages and modalities are fluid and interdependent, often unfolding simultaneously rather than in linear order.
Common client outcomes
YOUR GOALS
Symptom Reduction - Nervous System Regulation
Improvements in Quality of Life, Functioning, & Activities of Daily Living
Agency, Autonomy, & Empowerment
Adaptative, Integrative, & Transformative Skill Building
Somatic, Mindfulness, & Contemplative Practices
Support System Development
Stability & Plasticity
Sustainable Wellbeing Spaces
Transpersonal Community
Sustainable Wellbeing Targets
Invest in the Individual (bottom-up)
(Relationship with Self - Individual (Deficiency) Basic Needs)
Conscious Healthy Community (middle-out)
(R. with Other - Growth (Being) Group-social Needs)
Community-based, Co-creation (top-down)
(R. with Field - Environment (Transpersonal) - Collective Needs)
[*BOTTOM-UP MODALITIES*]
Trauma-Informed
Client-Led
Recovery-oriented
Evidence-based
Developmental, Stage-Process Theories
Somatic, Mindfulness, & Contemplative Practice
Multicultural Counseling
Transpersonal Counseling
Narrative, Gestalt, & Depth Therapy
Psychodynamic, Psychosocial, & Psychoanalytic
[*MIDDLE-OUT*]
Motivational Interviewing
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Internal Family Systems
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Strengths-based, Solutions-focused Therapy
Political & Economic Systems Theories & Study
Military Information, Infrastructure, & Power Theories & Study
Sustainable Wellbeing Space & Nonprofit Architecture | MOAR INC
[*TOP-DOWN*]