What We Offer

Services

Copper Bridge Counseling is a specialty behavioral health practice focused on helping people move from impairment toward sustainable functioning through evidence-based clinical services, consultation, education, and community partnerships.

Counseling for Individuals, Families, and Groups

Every path through hoarding disorder is different. We offer multiple levels of support so you can find the right fit — whether you are working through this privately, with your family, or alongside others who truly understand.

Individual Counseling

One-on-one therapy tailored to your unique relationship with your belongings, your history, and your goals. We use evidence-based approaches — including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Hoarding Disorder (CBT-HD) and Somatic Experiencing — to help you build capacity for lasting change at your own pace.

Family Counseling

Hoarding disorder affects the whole household. Family sessions help loved ones understand the emotional complexity behind clutter, improve communication, reduce conflict, and work together toward shared goals — without shame or coercion.

Group Counseling

Our structured skills groups — including the De-Cluttering Class — offer a supportive community where participants learn practical strategies, share experiences, and practice change together. Groups provide accountability, psychoeducation, and the powerful reminder that you are not alone.

In Their Own Words

Group Participants' Reflections

Before joining the decluttering group, I did not fully understand how deeply my possessions were connected to emotions, memories, creativity, and ideas about future usefulness. The group helped me recognize the many rules I had created around keeping and discarding—rules that often left me overwhelmed and unable to make decisions.

Through the class, I learned practical strategies for reducing clutter, including grouping similar items, making decisions by category, and keeping the best items rather than trying to keep everything. I also learned to pause and ask myself whether I truly need an item, whether I will realistically use it, and what keeping it is costing me.

The group gave me a place where people understood these struggles without judgment. The discussions, exercises, accountability, and active discarding practice helped me tolerate the discomfort of letting things go and showed me that the difficult emotions eventually pass.

I still have work to do, but I am acquiring less, making more thoughtful decisions, and releasing items that once felt impossible to discard. Most importantly, I now understand that lasting change involves more than cleaning a space—it requires changing my relationship with my possessions.

— De-Cluttering Group Participant

The decluttering group gave me practical tools for making decisions about possessions that once felt overwhelming. I learned how to sort items into clear categories, recognize when I already had enough, and let go of objects without losing the memories connected to them.

The group helped me understand that meaningful papers, creative supplies, photographs, and household items can carry strong emotional attachments. With support, accountability, and active practice, I became more comfortable donating useful items, discarding damaged or outdated belongings, and organizing both physical and digital clutter.

I have cleared old records, donated boxes of unused possessions, and created more usable space in my home. The process has become easier with practice, and I feel more confident saying, "I appreciate this, but I no longer need it."

Decluttering is no longer only about removing things. It is about reducing chaos, creating functional space, and making room for the activities and life that matter to me.

— De-Cluttering Group Participant

Clinical Supervision

Build Your Practice.

Develop a Specialty.

Statewide LCSW Clinical Supervision for Texas LMSWs establishing their own practices and developing clinical competency in hoarding disorder and complex community-based practice.

Clinical Supervision

Laura Jo Acuña, LCSW-S provides statewide clinical supervision for Texas LMSWs pursuing LCSW licensure. Supervision may include:

  • Clinical assessment & case conceptualization
  • Independent clinical judgment
  • Ethics, boundaries & risk management
  • Documentation & professional standards
  • Private-practice development
  • Complex case consultation
  • Professional identity development

Hoarding Specialty Focus

Bring your interest in hoarding disorder into your clinical development. Supervision may incorporate:

  • Hoarding assessment & differential diagnosis
  • CBT for Hoarding Disorder
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Harm reduction
  • Home-based clinical practice
  • Family dynamics & intervention
  • Housing stability
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Ethical management of complex cases

Formal specialty training and certification are separate from clinical supervision.

Your Practice. Your Clients. Your Professional Identity.

This opportunity is designed specifically for LMSWs establishing or operating their own practices. Supervisees are not employees or independent contractors of Copper Bridge Counseling solely by virtue of receiving supervision.

Clinical supervision remains separate from employment, contracting, credentialing, billing, referrals, certification, and other business relationships.

Available Statewide Across Texas

Virtual supervision makes specialized clinical supervision accessible to eligible LMSWs throughout Texas, including clinicians practicing in smaller and rural communities.

Supervision Fees

$125 per supervision hour

$500 monthly for four hours

Complimentary 20–30 minute consultation available to explore fit.

Laura Jo Acuña, LCSW-S

Clinical Director · Copper Bridge Counseling, PLLC · Austin, Texas

Build strong clinical judgment. Build an ethical practice. Develop meaningful expertise.

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