Crystalena Oberweiser, License Professional Counselor Associate

Nacogdoches, Texas

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Professions: Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor

Languages: English

My Approach to Therapy

I work with autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD teens and adults — but if I'm being honest, the parents are where I really shine. You're raising a kid whose brain didn't come with a manual, in a world that keeps insisting there should have been one. You've read the books. You've sat through the IEP meetings armed with a binder, a pen, and a barely-concealed sense of dread. You've googled things at 1 am that you never in your life expected to become an expert in. You're basically fluent in a language no one else in the house speaks, and you still end most days wondering if you're doing any of it right. Here's the good news: your kid isn't broken, and neither are you. You just happen to be doing one of the hardest, least-credentialed jobs on the planet — translator between your child's brain and an environment that wasn't built for it. My job is to help you find where the actual friction is, so home can stop feeling like a hostage negotiation and start feeling like, well, home. I use a strengths-based, non-compliance-based, DBT-informed approach with both kids and parents — because "just be more consistent" is not a strategy, it's a Pinterest quote, and you deserve better than that.

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Expertise & Specialties

Age Groups I Work With

ChildrenTeensAdultsElders

Groups I Work With

I come to this work with both clinical training and lived experience — I'm AuDHD myself, which means I've spent plenty of time on both sides of the "why does this feel harder for me than it looks for everyone else" conversation. So when a client tells me something isn't working, I'm not guessing. Who I work with: I see neurodivergent teens (10+), young adults, and adults — autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, or newly figuring out which of those fits. Many arrive burned out from years of masking, freshly disoriented by a late diagnosis, or carrying anxiety and depression that's been tangled up with their neurotype for so long it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. I also work with parents raising neurodivergent kids — the ones fluent in a language no one else in the house speaks, doing unpaid overtime as translators between their kid's brain and an environment that wasn't built for it.

Therapy Services & Specialties

Family Therapy Individual Therapy & Counseling

Concerns & Challenges Addressed

Adjusting to Change / Life TransitionsAutism SpectrumCaregiver Issues / StressDevelopmental Conditions (Autism, Aspergers, etc.)

Therapeutic Approaches & Evidence-Based Methods

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)Humanistic Psychology (humanism)Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)