About Austin Bridges, LPC-S
Austin Bridges is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor with more than a decade of experience working with adolescents and adults. His practice focuses on trauma, PTSD-related concerns, OCD, and anxiety, with online clinical services available in Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Austin also lives with OCD. That experience informs his understanding of how intrusive thoughts, uncertainty, and compulsive patterns can affect everyday life. He brings that perspective alongside his clinical training, while recognizing that each client's experience and needs are their own.
His approach is direct, collaborative, and practical. Drawing on approaches including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Austin develops treatment plans around each person's concerns and goals.
Working together begins with understanding what you want to change. Throughout treatment, you and Austin can review progress, discuss challenges, and adjust the plan to support the work you are doing in daily life.
Our Mission
Austin Bridges Therapy helps people address the effects of trauma, OCD, and anxiety through focused care and practical support. The practice's goal is to make treatment understandable, purposeful, and connected to the changes that matter in each person's life.
Our phrase “From A to B Faster” expresses a commitment to purposeful work and clear goals. The pace of therapy remains individual.
Austin works with you to choose an appropriate approach, build relevant skills, and evaluate how treatment is helping over time.
You do not need to arrive with a complete explanation of what is wrong or a finished plan for getting better. A consultation provides a starting point for discussing your concerns, asking questions, and considering whether Austin's services fit your needs.
Specialties
The practice has two focused specialties: Repair Trauma and Rewire OCD. Repair Trauma offers trauma therapy and EMDR, while Rewire OCD provides OCD treatment using ERP. Both offer individual clinical care in Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina, with treatment formats selected according to a person's needs and suitability.
Trauma Lab and OCD Lab provide a separate option for education and peer connection worldwide. These communities complement the practice's educational work and do not replace individual clinical care.
Recent Appearances
Austin Bridges brings over a decade of clinical practice and lived experience to podcast interviews, media features, and keynote presentations. Specializing in accelerated, evidence-based modalities like EMDR and ERP, Austin provides practical, high-impact commentary on trauma recovery, OCD management, and men's relational health.
Anchor Moments
Austin sits down on Anchor Moments to discuss his experience navigating chronic medical challenges while treating anxiety, OCD, and trauma. He highlights the powerful intersection of clinical expertise and lived experience, sharing how personal adversity informs empathetic, effective mental health care.
The Dad Side
On The Dad Side, Austin breaks down the essential order of operations for a thriving family structure: prioritizing personal well-being first, followed by the partnership, and then the children. He outlines practical boundary-setting rules that help fathers protect their mental health and lead with clarity.
Half Serious
Austin joins Half Serious for a grounded, high-grit conversation on trauma treatment, first responder stress, and OCD loops. He explains how EMDR and structured interventions empower individuals in high-stakes professions to process trauma without losing their footing so they can finally "turn off" after hours.
