You need help finding peace and contentment over control.
Welcome to a space created for you.I’m Lisa Peña and I know what it’s like when life splits into before and after.
I’m a therapist who specializes in the spaces people often feel most misunderstood, unseen and unheard. I believe at our core we are strong, capable, and deeply loving yet quietly exhausted from carrying more than can be seen.
My approach is warm, relational, and trauma-informed. I believe healing doesn’t come from fixing yourself, it comes from being seen, supported, and allowed to tell the truth about what you’ve lived through.
My therapeutic values:
Curiosity over certainty
Name it to tame it
Grief demands to be witnessed
The body keeps score
Authenticity over performance
I don’t rush the process.
I don’t minimize pain.
I don’t offer clichés.
I sit with you in the hard places and help you find meaning in what comes next.
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When your child’s diagnosis reshapes your world, it can quietly reshape you too. It can bring isolation, medical trauma, shifting expectations, and a constant state of alertness. Therapy provides a steady place to untangle the guilt, grief, and overwhelm, while building tools that help you reclaim your identity, strengthen your relationships, and build a life that holds both love and limits.
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Grief is not limited to death. It can follow a diagnosis, a dream that didn’t unfold, a relationship that changed, a faith transition, or a version of life you thought you would have. Many of these losses go unseen and unacknowledged. Counseling offers space to honor all forms of grief, spoken and unspoken, so you can process, integrate, and move forward without minimizing your pain or being rushed to “move on”.
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When your faith changes, it can feel like your entire foundation is shifting. Whether you’re navigating church harm, religious trauma, or a quiet unraveling of long-held beliefs, this is a space where you can process the loss, reclaim your voice, and reconnect with God (or redefine that relationship) in a way that feels honest and whole without pressure, shame, or agenda.
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Medical trauma and long-term caregiving can keep your nervous system in a constant state of stress. The appointments, emergencies, advocacy, and uncertainty don’t just impact your schedule - they shape your body, mind, and relationships. Counseling helps you process the shock, chronic stress, and layered grief that come with medical crises, while reconnecting you to your identity beyond the role of caregiver.
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Becoming a mother can feel like both an expansion and an unraveling. The pressure to be everything for everyone can slowly disconnect you from yourself. Counseling helps you untangle guilt, reclaim your voice, and build a version of motherhood that feels intentional, sustainable, and aligned with your values.
How I can help
a little bit more about me
At my core, I am a lifelong learner. I move through this world with deep curiosity about myself, about people, and about God. I read constantly. I love conversations that go beyond the surface. I am always asking, Why? What does this mean? What is this teaching me?
I live in deep South Texas with my husband and our three really cool kids. I’m a coach’s wife, and through that life I’ve come to deeply value athletics, teamwork, and the shaping power of commitment.
When life doesn’t go as planned—and it often doesn’t—I become a student. I learn everything I can about what’s happening around me and within me so that I can participate actively in both my decisions and my perspective. I don’t believe in passive survival. I believe in informed resilience.
Our family also lives with severe disability every single day. My oldest daughter has an ultra-rare genetic disorder, and her life—her strength, her complexity, her vulnerability—is what ultimately led me into this work.
I don’t do this from a distance.
I do this as a full-time working mom who has known overwhelm intimately.
As a woman who wrestled with infertility.
As a breast cancer survivor.
As a caregiver to an adult child with significant medical needs requiring full care.
As someone who has wrestled deeply with my faith and experienced the quiet unraveling and rebuilding of what I believe.
I pursued this degree first for myself, then for my family, and now for the future we are building. This practice is an extension of that journey. It is a place where I offer what I have learned—professionally and personally—because I truly believe we were never meant to carry this alone.
I’m really glad you’re here.