He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

Hi, I’m Susan Thompson. My practice is about empowering you to strengthen your relationships, navigate work or school challenges, improve thinking patterns, regulate emotions, build inner strength and calm your nervous system. I work with all anxiety-related challenges including generalized anxiety, ADHD, OCD, social anxiety and PTSD. Whether you are overwhelmed by racing or thought loops, strong emotions or stuck in unhelpful patterns, I can help you.  Change isn’t just possible, it is powerful and can transform your life.

I approach therapy with an empathetic and holistic approach based on evidence-based therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP). You can think better, feel better and live better.

Schedule a FREE 30 minute session to see if we can help you.

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Everyone has a story.

A story filled with hope and fear. Love and pain. Joy and sadness. You might need support sometimes to share your story. I can help you find a new perspective to strengthen your personal and professional relationships, manage your emotions, stop overthinking and build inner strength and resiliency.

Susan Thompson, founder of Lightworks Counseling, displaying the Cognitive Transformation workbook.

Welcome to Lightworks!

Lightworks is a new approach to managing your mental health. All of us can have challenges that lead to relationship issues, career issues, overthinking and thought rumination.

Through a holistic and individualized approach, I combine Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure Response Therapy (ERT), Diabolic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to empower you in this journey that we call life.

What Is Your Story?

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What Is Your Story? ⟡

Teletherapy is uniquely suited to our modern times and can be done from the comfort of your home, anywhere in the world. We also see people in-person in Austin, Texas.

Therapy

I believe that connection is important. My approach is authentic, empathetic, respectful and creative. I also believe it is important to respect and work within the framework of your personal value system, culture and spirituality. In our practice, we use evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Exposure Response Therapy (ERT) and integration for Medicine Work .

I have designed a unique program that will help you transform and live your best life based on your goals and vision for your future.

I offer teletherapy for the state of Texas and in-person therapy in Austin, Texas.

Our workbooks are designed to offer a complete guide to Cognitive Transformation. They are highly effective at improving mental health, including anxiety and depression.

Self-Guided Workbooks

Our proprietary workbooks are designed to provide accessible and complete treatment programs based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Our child and teen series focuses on mental health challenges such as anxiety and are fun, colorful and based on original characters. Our Cognitive Transformation series workbooks combine both CBT and Existentialism to help you live your best and highest life.

Giving Back

Lightworks is committed to making an impact in our communities. We have partnered with nonprofits and philanthropic organizations across the country and around the world to bring our workbooks to under-served children and adults, refugees, teachers and mental health providers. We invite you to join our mission to provide fun, affordable and easy-to-use programs to support mental health.