You need help finding peace and contentment over control.

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.

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.

  • Education and Certifications

    Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

    Licensed Professional Counselor - Associate

    *Supervised by Dr. James Whittenberg, LPC-S

    Certified Grief Educator - Mentor David Kessler

    Trauma-Informed Specialist

    Breathwork and Mindfulness Facilitator

    Doctorate of Pharmacy