Austin Hendrickson

As a man who has been deeply affected and healed by counseling, I get the need and role of counseling firsthand. This is why I love counseling: I believe humans were created to share their stories and to work through difficulties together. Counseling is my life’s passion. I am truly honored and delighted to now walk alongside others in dark places toward durable hope and lasting change.

I am personally acquainted with the pain of grief. After the loss of my mother to suicide, I began a counseling journey that revealed many unexplored areas in my life that needed compassion and care. These experiences have brought me face to face with life’s difficulties.

I received my Bachelor’s Degree from the United States Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, CO) in Foreign Area Studies (Russia and Eastern Europe). After graduation, I worked as a military aviator and US Air Force Officer in domestic and international locations. I returned to graduate school to pursue a Master’s of Arts in Counseling and a Master’s of Divinity at Covenant Theological Seminary. Over the years, as a counselor, I have worked in a community-based counseling center, as a staff counselor for a church counseling center, and I am now in independent practice, working with men, veterans, couples, and families navigating trauma and PTSD, and the many ups and downs of life.

I have traveled throughout the world during my Air Force career. Seeing the many ways humans experience the world, in all its pain and joy, has only increased my passion to care for others. From working with teenagers and their struggles to individuals seeking hope to the married couple with decades of experience to everyone in between. I love working with people who are struggling and want change.

As a counselor who integrates multiple treatment modalities, I like to offer my clients multiple avenues of healing and growth. This ultimately helps them to integrate change most effectively, and facilitates the healing of body, mind, and emotions. Healing and change happens within the context of relationships. There is freedom to explore the really hard and difficult parts of our stories that have often been neglected or damaged by us and others. Healing never happens in isolation. In a few words I am client centered, relationship oriented, and solutions focused. Our therapeutic relationship becomes the avenue through which healing and growth is fostered.

Expect that we will talk about what you need most and how we can move forward to get you the help you want. I will get a better sense of how you have arrived at this point in your life and try to understand the various things that have contributed to this moment in your life. My hope is that we can gain a greater understanding of what needs to be done and how we will get there.