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Ensemble Therapy provides responsive therapeutic services to children, teens and adults in Austin, TX

Ensemble Therapy provides responsive therapeutic services to children, teens and adults in Austin, Texas.

09/26/2025

Visual schedules aren’t just about organization. They’re about empowerment.

When children can see what’s coming, they don’t have to rely on guesswork, and you don’t have to keep repeating yourself with constant reminders.

Having a sense of predictability builds trust, reduces anxiety, and supports independence for them, while also doing the same for you.

Visual routines work because they:

🧠 Support executive functioning, including planning, problem-solving, and flexible thinking

🎯 Reduce overwhelm or procrastination during transitions

🗓️ Create a shared rhythm that the whole family can count on

💪 Build confidence and autonomy — especially when children help create them

So how do you create this kind of organized flow and internal ease?

✔️ Keep routines simple (no more steps than your child’s age!)

✔️ Use visuals like photos, icons, and drawings

✔️ Make it fun and flexible by including choices, creativity, and even humor

✔️ Revisit and revise together when needed

When children feel empowered, cooperation follows. Visual schedules aren’t just a parenting tool. They’re a path toward whole family wellbeing that comes from collaboration — with less frustration.

09/24/2025

The start of school isn’t just about schedules and supplies — it’s a chance to build new connections.

If your child is still finding their footing with friends, here are a few ways you can support them:

🧠 Talk through what being a “good friend” looks and feels like
🎭 Role-play how to join a group or start a conversation
🎯 Focus on connection, not popularity
🫶 Celebrate small steps: saying hi, making eye contact, or asking to play
🧩 Remember that social communication is a skill — and it takes time to develop

Some children warm up slowly. Some feel unsure after a friendship shift.

With gentle support, friendship can feel possible. 💛

If you’re looking for more ways to talk about friendship with your child, make sure to check out the Friendship section of our bibliotherapy guide for a library of books to read together and explore. Head to the link in our bio to choose your next shared read.

09/22/2025

Over the years, our therapists have created and curated some incredibly helpful tools for families and other clinicians, including scripts, checklists, visual supports, and more.

Until now, these handouts and guides have mostly changed hands inside of therapy sessions and been given individually to our clients on an as-needed basis. But we believe good tools should be easy to access and available to everyone.

✨ That’s why we’re launching the Ensemble Learning Center Resource Library— a growing collection of downloadable tools designed for caregivers and professionals alike.

Whether you’re navigating a tricky parenting moment or looking for ideas to support your clients, we hope this resource becomes a go-to for you.

Take a peek and spread the word! Resources available now at ensemblelearningcenter.com/resource-library

09/19/2025

There are only so many times you can ask, “How was your day?” before the question stops getting answers.

Modeling curiosity is an excellent way to raise thoughtful and curious children — but that doesn’t mean direct questions are the right strategy for every moment.

Kids often don’t want to be questioned when they’re overstimulated, tired, or unsure how to describe what they’ve experienced. During afterschool carpool is usually when hours of activity are getting integrated for the first time all day, and children may not have the words to initiate or respond externally if there’s still an internal jumble.

But that doesn’t mean you have to stay silent and try to telepathically will them to say something out loud.

If questions aren’t getting anywhere, try:

✨ Observing and naming what you see

✨ Offering a cozy snack and a low-pressure moment

✨ Making silly or specific statements that invite stories without forcing them

Just because an ask doesn’t always follow with an answer doesn’t mean the potential for connection is any less. It just means there’s an opportunity to offer space and be there with gentle inquiry — not interrogation — when they’re ready.

Want more specifics for what to ask “without asking”? Head over to the link in our bio for a blog post on new ways to say, “How was your day?” 🔗

09/17/2025

Sleep isn’t just a routine — it’s regulation.

Every start of the school year, many children (and caregivers) struggle with it.

New classrooms, big transitions, and shifting schedules create nervous system overload. For children, sometimes that shows up as bedtime resistance, late-night restlessness, or extra emotional outbursts.

If nighttime disruption is happening in your home, you’re not alone. 💤

Here are a few gentle resets to support your child’s sleep rhythm:
🌙 Keep a consistent bedtime routine (even on weekends)
🌙 Build in 30-60 minutes of tech-free wind-down time
🌙 Try to integrate cozy sensory elements like soft lighting, white noise, or a lavender diffuser
🌙 Associate the bed with rest, not stimulation (meaning a screen-free zone at all times)
🌙 Get sunlight and movement during the day
🌙 Use some down-regulating yoga poses like legs-up-the-wall, child’s pose or happy baby pose

If you’re feeling sleep deprived, these tips can apply to you too!

The goal isn’t perfect sleep. It’s creating enough calm and consistency to help the body settle.

✨ Bonus tip: If your child naps after school, keep it short (under 30 minutes) and early in the afternoon to avoid disrupting bedtime.

09/15/2025

All throughout the year and this month during Hispanic Heritage Month, it’s worth celebrating the rich cultural legacies that shape our communities — as well as acknowledging and countering the systems of inequity that have long created barriers of access to care.

Here in Austin, we see that these barriers are all too real. Economic segregation and racial inequities mean two families living in the same city with the same needs may experience vastly different quality of life and receive radically different care (or none at all).

To us, any child who is unable to receive what they need is one child too many, and we hope you agree.

At Ensemble Therapy, we’re committed to helping change this disparity, which why we launched our community initiative, Whole Child. Whole City. Through pay-it-forward support and funding by community members who have the means, our initiative that provides free counseling to children and families who might otherwise go without (while still paying our therapists an equitable wage to sustainably support their work).

Mental health care is a human right.

Let’s build a city where that truth becomes a lived reality.

📍 Learn more and support our Whole Child. Whole City. initiative through the link in our bio.

09/12/2025

We honor the quiet, ordinary moments when caregivers choose presence over panic, connection over control.

These small moments of choice are worth marking today on World Mindfulness Day, but they’re also essential in the every day — perhaps more essential than just about anything else we do to be in connection with ourselves, the ones we love, and even the people we don’t understand.

The times when we pause, when we take that one extra breath, when we resource ourselves even 1% more than we did the day before, are the tiny moments that foster lasting feelings of safety and worth more than any others. Our continued awareness, action, and in some cases, non-action, are what allow us to reiterate what we care about and establish our sense of self again and again in ways we can feel proud of.

We model what matters by giving ourselves the space to know what that is in the first place.

Mindfulness isn’t about being calm all the time.

It’s about staying close — to yourself, to your child, to what you care most about.

It’s the quiet instances of awareness and acknowledgement that lead us back to ourselves and the steady anchor amidst chaos.

Take the time to pause — it’s what makes space for connection.

Want to get intentional about your mindfulness? Read our blog posts on Mindfulness for Caregivers and Mindfulness for Children on our site at ensembletherapy.com

09/10/2025

Special education is a whole language of its own.

If you’ve ever felt lost in a sea of acronyms, timelines, and evaluation paperwork, you are *not* alone.

This post offers a high-level look at the SPED process—what it means, how it works, and how to begin advocating for the support your child may need.

You don’t have to know all the answers right away.

Start with questions. Stay curious. You’ve got this. 💛

And if you’re wanting to learn even more, check out this blog post that goes into much more detail. 🔗 Link in bio.

09/08/2025

This week, and always, we hold space for the children and families navigating thoughts of su***de. 💛

Talking about it isn’t easy — but it is necessary.

Su***de is the second leading cause of death for youth aged 10-24 in the U.S.

No demographic is exempt, but LGBTQIA2-S+ youth are at significantly higher risk, especially when they lack access to affirming adults, safe spaces, and mental health care.

If you’re a caregiver navigating this terrain, please know:

You don’t have to have all the answers.

What matters most is that you’re showing up with care, openness, and a willingness to listen without judgment.

You are your child’s safe landing place.

For youth and families in need:
📲 Dial 988

💬 Text 988

🌐 Chat https://chat.988lifeline.org

For LGBTQIA2-S+ youth:

📲 Dial 1-866-488-7386

💬 Text ‘TREVOR’ to 678-678

🌐 Chat trvr.org/get-help

Resources in our local area include ,Texas Su***de Prevention Collaborative, and Integral Care’s Mobile Crisis Outreach Team in Travis County, as well as and nationally. Read posts how to talk to your child about su***de and how to support a child in crisis on our blog at ensembletherapy.com.

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09/05/2025

New classroom. New teacher. New everything. 🧠✨

It’s easy to underestimate just how much change children navigate at the start of a school year. Beyond the supply lists and new shoes, there’s a deeper adjustment happening.

Every classroom has its own culture — routines, energy, and social rules aren’t always the same, even one room over. Add in the sensory differences and peer shifts, and it’s no wonder so many children come home fried or in the first few weeks.

If your child is more emotional, defiant, or withdrawn right now…you’re not doing anything wrong, and (while their behavior may not be your favorite) neither are they. Their nervous system is working hard to catch up.

Remember: adjustment is a process, and the more support you’re able to give, the smoother that adjustment will be.

The transition may just take the time that it takes, but regardless of how long you’re navigating this moment together, you can offer consistency, co-regulation, and compassion to make it easier for everyone involved along the way.

09/03/2025

Big transitions bring big feelings — and sometimes those feelings show up as behaviors we don’t quite understand.

In therapy, children gain more than coping skills. They gain the language to express themselves, the tools to self-regulate, and the confidence to move through change with support.

When they do, you gain more too, starting with a sigh of relief because an empowered, regulated child means a household with undeniably more ease and contentment.

If your child is having a tough time adjusting this fall, know that this can be a season for change that makes their life easier and yours. We’re here for them and we’re here for you.

Learn what the therapeutic process is like on our site and reach out to our intake team to explore getting started with therapy. 📥

09/01/2025

Every school year it’s easy to raise your hopes for fall. A return to structure. A chance to reset. Maybe even — gasp — a little breathing room.

But then the calendar changes to September, the schedule is full, the forms keep coming, and your nervous system hasn’t caught up with the program.

If you’re feeling maxed out before the month really begins, you’re not doing it wrong. You’re navigating change — emotional, logistical, seasonal — and that takes energy. More energy than most planners account for.

💛 You’re allowed to pause.
💛 You’re allowed to do less.
💛 You’re allowed to rewrite the rhythm of this season.

Let your pace reflect your capacity, not just your commitments.

Even a color-coded calendar can’t account for how tired you might feel.

Permission to be human? Fully granted!

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Thursday	8am - 8pm
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At Ensemble Therapy, our mission is to honor the whole child.

We uphold this belief by committing to these three core values:

We create a foundational, safe space for every child where they feel accepted, supported, encouraged to take risks, and better prepared to face external factors that they cannot control.

We understand children; we speak their language, which allows us to act as calm, patient, and trustworthy translators between every child and their parents.