We built the practice we wished existed when we were the ones referring people out because there wasn't room on the calendar.
Amberleaf opened in 2013 in a converted house on Fernwood Lane, and we kept the house on purpose — no fluorescent-lit suite, no waiting room designed to be left quickly. Thirteen years later we're eleven clinicians, still capped at a caseload size we're willing to defend, still in the same building with a bigger porch.
We are not a crisis service and we don't pretend to be. What we're built for is the much larger, much less dramatic territory in between "fine" and "emergency" — the place most people actually live most of the time, and the place therapy is most useful.
Fourteen years in practice, with a specialty in trauma processing and complex grief. Naomi founded Amberleaf after a decade in hospital-based crisis work.
Leads our IOP and recovery-support tracks. Marcus is in long-term recovery himself and is open about it when clients want to know.
Works primarily with teenagers and the families around them — a caseload she chose after years in school-based counseling.
Runs three of our weekly process groups and supervises our associate clinicians.
Amberleaf is a fictional practice built for this website demonstration; the names above are illustrative and not real clinicians.
412 Fernwood Lane, Austin, TX — a short walk from the Fernwood Park trailhead, with street parking and a wheelchair-accessible side entrance.