Later life is often described in extremes: golden years or decline. Your actual experience is likely more complex. You may have more freedom than ever and still feel unsettled. You may be proud of the life you built and still carry regrets. You may be facing changes in health, relationships, or independence that ask you to adapt in ways you did not expect. Therapy is not only for a crisis, and it is not only for the young. It can be a thoughtful space to reflect, grieve, and choose how you want to live the years ahead.
For Older Adults
Therapy for Older Adults
Later life can bring freedom, loss, and new questions all at once. You deserve a thoughtful place to explore them.
Grief and Loss
Losses can accumulate in later life: a partner, friends, siblings, colleagues, and sometimes the familiar places and routines that gave life its shape. Each loss can reawaken earlier ones. Grief does not follow a schedule, and it can appear as sadness, irritability, numbness, or a quiet withdrawal from things you once enjoyed. In therapy, we can make room for grief without rushing it, and look at how to carry the relationships that matter into the life that continues. You can read more on Grief Therapy in Austin.
Transitions That Reshape Identity
Retirement, moving to a new home, becoming a caregiver, or needing more care yourself can each change how you see yourself. Roles that once defined you may shift or end, and the people around you may begin to treat you differently. Those transitions can bring relief and loss at the same time. We can explore what each change means to you and how to keep a sense of self that does not depend on any single role. Therapy for the Transition Into Retirement looks at one of these changes in more depth.
Meaning, Legacy and What Matters Now
Later life can bring a sharper awareness of time. Questions about meaning, legacy, faith, and what you want your remaining years to hold may come forward with new urgency. These are not symptoms to eliminate. They are some of the most important questions a person can ask. Existential approaches to therapy take them seriously and create room to explore them with honesty and without despair. We can consider what you still want to do, repair, say, or let go.
Mood, Worry and Health
Changes in health can bring worry, frustration, or low mood, and so can watching friends face illness. Anxiety about the future, about the people you love, or about your independence can quietly take up more space than you would like. Low mood in later life is sometimes dismissed as a normal part of aging. It deserves more attention than that. Therapy can help you understand what you are feeling, develop practical ways to cope, and make room for pleasure and connection alongside real concerns. Anxiety and depression therapy describes this work.
Relationships Across Generations
Relationships keep evolving in later life. You may be renegotiating closeness with grown family members, navigating a new rhythm with a partner, or feeling the loss of friendships that once anchored you. Loneliness can arrive even in a full life. This is individual work, focused on your experience and on what you want from your relationships now.
Practical Details
I work with adults and seniors, including people 65 and older. Sessions take place in person at FUSE WorkSpace on West Highway 290 in Southwest Austin, a private, quiet room with easy parking, or by secure video anywhere in Texas, which can help when travel is difficult. You are welcome to meet in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Individual sessions are $210 for 50 to 60 minutes, and a free 15-minute consultation is a simple way to begin.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Is It Too Late to Start Therapy?
No. Therapy can be meaningful at any age, and later life can bring exactly the kinds of questions therapy is suited to explore.
Can We Meet by Video if Getting to the Office Is Difficult?
Yes. Secure telehealth is available anywhere in Texas, as long as you are located in Texas during each session.
Do You Offer Sessions in Spanish or Portuguese?
Yes. Sessions are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, in person or by telehealth.
A thoughtful first step
You do not Have to Keep Carrying This Alone.
A free 15-minute consultation is a focused, private conversation about what is bringing you here and whether we may work well together.