Christy Song Lmft-S

08/04/2025

🧠✨ “Therapists — are you ready to deepen your work with clients who dissociate?”
Dissociation is complex, nuanced, and more common than we talk about. This workshop will equip you to recognize it, understand it, and respond with skill and compassion — so your clients feel safer, more present, and more whole.
🔍 Trauma-informed. Practical.

07/22/2025

The personal is political — and our mental health proves it every day. 💛

Every time someone sits in my office and whispers, ‘Is it okay to feel this way?’— we’re naming something bigger than one person’s struggle.

Our rest, our grief, our burnout, our stress — none of it happens in a vacuum. It’s shaped by the world around us: the expectations, the policies, the systems that lift some up and push others down.

You can’t self-care your way out of a system that demands you run on empty.
You can’t boundary your way out of oppression.
But you *can* rest. You *can* find community. You *can* remember that caring for yourself is a radical act *and* that we need each other, too.

Your story matters. Your struggle is not just yours to carry. And your healing — that’s personal *and* political, too.

Let’s keep tending to ourselves and each other. One breath, one boundary, one radical act of rest at a time. 🌿✨

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07/11/2025

For all of your abilities, we see you and honor you this Disability Pride Month

07/10/2025

🌬️ When the World Feels Far Away: Dissociation, Trauma & Gentle Grounding 🌬️ One of the most misunderstood parts of living with trauma is dissociation — that feeling of floating away from your body, losing track of time, or feeling like you’re watching your life from the outside. F...

07/09/2025

We're hiring! We offer a lot of flexibility, support, and a strong culture of care.

Required: at least 2 nights a week (until 630 pm), Saturday mornings (until 1pm).

Preferred: Spanish-speaking

Encouraged: Neurodivergent, people of the global majority, LGBTQIA+, and those that have been marginalized

ABC Counseling

07/07/2025

Over the July 4th weekend, devastating floods swept through communities across Texas. Many of our neighbors lost homes, safety, and a sense of normalcy. Some are still navigating where to go next—while others are just starting to feel the emotional weight of it all.

At Counseling, we see you. We feel this grief alongside you. And we want you to know: you don’t have to go through this alone.

We are offering free, trauma-informed therapy sessions to survivors and those directly impacted by the flooding. Whether you need a space to cry, process, sit in silence, or figure out your next step—we're here.

💬 Grief after a crisis doesn’t always look the way you expect.
It can show up days or weeks later.
It can feel like numbness, rage, confusion, or disconnection.
It’s all valid. Your experience is real.

“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning.”
—Francis Weller

Here are 3 small ways to support yourself or someone you love in the coming days:

1. Let yourself feel—whatever shows up. There is no “right way” to grieve.
2. Take care of your body. Eat, hydrate, and rest when you can. Crisis takes a toll on your nervous system.
3. Reach out. Whether it’s to a therapist, a friend, or a community group—connection helps us heal.

📍If you or a loved one is looking for support, please visit www.abccounselingtx.com
We offer in-person sessions in San Antonio and virtual support for anyone across Texas.

In the midst of heartbreak, we’re holding space for hope—and for you.

With care,
Christy Song Lmft-S
Clinical Director, ABC Counseling

Welcome all outcasts, free spirits, geeks, misfits, wonderers, visionaries, hobbits, muggles, witches, and wizards. We would like to invite you on this quest we call life and its many mysteries. Let's explore and adventure together through the story of your life and what's to come.

07/05/2025

Our hearts are so heavy for the community and the losses yesterfay from the flooding.

At Arriaga Bean Clarke (ABC Counseling, we believe in caring for the community. So, we are offering pro bono services to those that were impacted by the flooding in San Antonio, Texas. We have immediate availability to help you out.

Welcome all outcasts, free spirits, geeks, misfits, wonderers, visionaries, hobbits, muggles, witches, and wizards. We would like to invite you on this quest we call life and its many mysteries. Let's explore and adventure together through the story of your life and what's to come.

07/03/2025

We're Hiring! 🧡

ABC Counseling Inc. is looking for a passionate, playful, and affirming Children’s Therapist to join our thriving team in San Antonio, TX!

✅ Work with children and/or families
✅ Evenings & Saturday mornings availability required
✅ Must be licensed in Texas (LMFT, LPC, LCSW) – LMFT-As welcome to apply!
✅ Bilingual applicants strongly encouraged!

We’re a trauma-informed, inclusive group practice that prioritizes community care and clinician well-being. If you’re committed to making therapy accessible, affirming, and meaningful — we’d love to hear from you!

📍 Apply now at www.abccounselingtx.com
📩 christina@abccounselingtx.com
📞 (210) 957-1668

Come be a part of something special 💫

07/02/2025

🎉 Come hang out with us this Saturday! 🎉

ABC Counseling Inc. will be at the Helotes Marketplace on Saturday, July 5th from 9am to 3pm! 🛍️☀️

Whether you want to learn more about therapy, meet some of our amazing therapists, grab a sticker, or just say hi—we’d love to chat with you 💬💛

We'll be the booth full of smiles, good vibes, and probably a little too much sunscreen. 😎

📍Helotes Marketplace
🗓️ Saturday, 7/5
⏰ 9am–3pm

Come see what we’re all about — and maybe grab a freebie or two while you're at it!

06/27/2025

We live in a system engineered to praise burnout and pathologize rest.

We are told that our worth is tied to how much we produce. That our value increases the busier we are. That taking breaks is dangerous.

And so many of us—especially those with chronic illness, mental health struggles, or trauma—carry deep, internalized fear about slowing down.

🌪 We feel guilt for resting.
🌪 We panic when we’re not "making money."
🌪 We ignore our bodies until they scream.

But **burnout is not a badge of honor.** It’s a warning sign. A signal from your nervous system.

“You are not a machine. You were never meant to be.”

Rest isn’t indulgent.
It’s **biological. Political. Essential.**

“Self-care is not a luxury. It’s healthcare.”

True self-care isn’t just bubble baths or yoga mats.
It’s setting boundaries when your culture says that’s unsafe.
It’s listening to your body’s “no” before it has to scream.

It’s refilling your spoon count with the things that *truly* nourish you—connection, slowness, breath, sleep, softness.

“Your rest fuels your resistance.”

What if our liberation begins when we stop treating ourselves like cogs in a system and start treating ourselves like *humans*?

What if we honored our bodies *not* for how much they can do—but for how deeply they carry us through this world?

You are allowed to rest.
You are allowed to do less.
You are allowed to listen inward, not outward.
❤️‍🔥 And you don’t owe anyone an apology for that.

06/27/2025

MYTH: “Interns don’t have enough experience to work with my concerns.”

FACT: Clinical experience is important—but it’s not the only thing that makes a therapist effective.

What also matters?
✨ Curiosity to understand your story, not rush to fix it.
💛 Compassion that creates space for your truth, without judgment.
🧠 Empathy that meets you where you are—and walks with you forward.

At Arriaga Bean Clarke our intern therapists are deeply committed to learning, showing up with care, and doing the work in collaboration with licensed supervisors.

You're not getting someone who’s “just starting out.” You’re getting someone who is invested, supported, and present.

🌱 Healing doesn’t require a therapist with decades of experience.
It requires a therapist who listens like you matter. Because you do.

💬 Our interns are accepting new clients now at a very affordable rate.

Welcome all outcasts, free spirits, geeks, misfits, wonderers, visionaries, hobbits, muggles, witches, and wizards. We would like to invite you on this quest we call life and its many mysteries. Let's explore and adventure together through the story of your life and what's to come.

06/26/2025

We demand to be treated equally