You have the title, the degrees and the accolades, and you still wonder if you’re enough. Vanessa Flores Newton, LCSW-S, helps attorneys, physicians, founders, executives and women leaders let go of the perfectionism, shame and self-doubt that keep them working to prove their worth. In person in Austin and virtually across Texas.
Therapy for high-achieving women focuses on the patterns that often come with success: perfectionism, over-functioning, burnout, imposter feelings and shame. At Colors of Austin Counseling, Vanessa Flores Newton, LCSW-S, combines EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and The Daring Way™ to help women leaders, especially women of color, heal the root of self-doubt instead of just managing it.
Many high-achieving women, especially women of color, learned early that excellence was protection. Perfectionism, over-functioning and staying busy became ways to stay safe and be seen. Those patterns can build a career, but they also feed burnout, anxiety and the quiet belief that you’re never quite enough.
Vanessa has worked in hospitals, schools and private practice, and founded Colors of Austin Counseling in 2018.
Longer sessions leave room to go deep and still close with care, so you can walk back into your day.
Meet at our Berkman Dr or Marathon Blvd offices, or online between meetings, cases or shifts.
Talk therapy can help you understand your patterns. This work helps change them by reaching the memories, beliefs and protective parts that drive the need to prove yourself.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps your brain reprocess the experiences behind beliefs like “I’m not enough” or “I have to earn my place,” so they lose their grip.
Gets to know the parts of you that drive, control and criticize to keep you safe, so they can soften and you can lead from a calmer, truer place.
As a Daring Way™ Trained Facilitator, Vanessa draws on Dr. Brené Brown’s research to help you name shame, understand where it comes from and meet yourself with courage and compassion.
Practices from the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method™ and Somatic Experiencing help your nervous system rest, so calm isn’t something you have to earn.
The goal: to remember who you are and what you’re capable of, and to know that working more will never be what fulfills you. Loving yourself will.
Your consultation helps us decide together. If this isn’t the right fit, we’ll help you find what is.
A short call to talk through what you’re carrying, what you want to change and whether we’re a good fit.
We map your history, your goals and the beliefs behind the pressure, and build grounding tools before any deeper work.
In ongoing 90-minute sessions or a focused EMDR intensive, we work on the memories and patterns at the root of self-doubt.
We strengthen new beliefs and practices so the change holds at work, at home and in how you treat yourself.
Choose ongoing sessions or a focused intensive. Not sure which? Your consultation will help you decide.
Ongoing EMDR, IFS and shame resilience work at a pace that fits your life.
Book a consultationMonths of work in focused days. A strong fit if you’d rather block time than add another weekly appointment.
See intensives & pricingWe verify your benefits before your first session, so you know what to expect.
Book a consultationPick a time that works with your schedule, and we’ll talk through what you’re carrying and how Vanessa can help. Have a question first? Email us and we’ll get back to you.
connect@colorsofaustincounseling.com
Vanessa is in network with Aetna PPO. We verify your benefits before your first session.
A 90-minute EMDR session is $275. Intensive pricing is on our EMDR Intensives page.
Many clients use HSA or FSA funds. With other insurance, we can provide a superbill you can submit for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Please give at least 24 business hours’ notice for weekly sessions. Intensives have their own policy on the EMDR Intensives page.
Not sure where to start? Your consultation helps us decide together whether ongoing EMDR sessions or an intensive fits best.
Want to save on ongoing therapy? Our self-pay therapy packages and membership save up to 15%.
Vanessa is the founder and CEO of Colors of Austin Counseling, an LCSW-S with 17 years in social work, an EMDR-trained therapist and a Daring Way™ Trained Facilitator. A first-generation Latina and entrepreneur, she knows the pressure to keep proving yourself from the inside, and she helps women leaders remember who they are.
Read Vanessa’s full bio →There’s no single best approach, but many high achievers find that insight alone doesn’t stop the pattern. EMDR and IFS work on the experiences and protective parts that drive perfectionism, which is why Vanessa pairs them with Daring Way™ shame resilience work.
Yes. Vanessa works with attorneys, physicians, founders, CEOs, executives and women leaders in every field, with a focus on women of color.
Yes. What you share in therapy is confidential within the limits of Texas law and professional ethics. If you have questions about your licensing board or workplace, bring them to your consultation and we’ll talk them through.
Yes. Vanessa sees clients in person at our Austin offices and virtually anywhere in Texas through SimplePractice Telehealth.
A 90-minute EMDR session is $275 self-pay. Vanessa is in network with Aetna PPO, and many clients use HSA or FSA funds. EMDR intensive pricing is on our EMDR Intensives page.
Often, yes. An EMDR intensive condenses months of therapy into a half day to five days. Many professionals would rather block out focused time than add another weekly appointment.
IFS sees the mind as made of parts, like the inner critic or the part that never stops working. It helps those parts feel safe enough to soften, so you can lead yourself with more calm and compassion.
Yes. Vanessa is currently accepting new clients for 90-minute EMDR sessions and EMDR intensives.
Book a consultation using any “Book a consultation” button on this page, or email connect@colorsofaustincounseling.com. We’ll help you find the right next step.
Book a consultation and take the first step toward rest, clarity and a life that isn’t built on proving yourself.
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