About Us
Meet Barbie
Barbie Atkinson, LPC-S is a bilingual psychotherapist and licensed professional counselor and supervisor located in Houston, Texas. She founded Bayou City Brainspotting to offer clients a chance to free themselves from trauma and live life in a new way and unburdened. Her One-Size-Can't-Possibly-Fit-All approach is refreshingly human and personal. She brings curiosity to each assessment and has helped a wide breadth of clients. She loves helping high-performing, high-achieving, successful, smart, and secretly struggling men and women.
For over 20 years, she's helped clients in such places as Baylor and University of Texas community clinics, probation offices, various community agencies, schools, and research studies through Human Behavior and Research Institute at the University of Texas, University of Houston's Center for Latina Maternal & Family Health Research, online, and currently owns a group practice where she also practices.
She is a Certified Brainspotting Therapist that loves the idea of the self healing potential. She has found this modality to work either alone or in conjunction with talk therapy. There is profound attunement between herself and the patient and the patient themselves. She is as curious as they come and encourages you to be as well.
Meet Alejandra
Alejandra Cervantes, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Brainspotting Practitioner, and a Brainspotting Consultant in Training. After directly witnessing the profound healing potential of Brainspotting in her own client’s sessions, Alejandra co-founded Bayou City Brainspotting with the goal of creating a Texas hub for deep healing and training.
Alejandra is a neurodivergent practitioner who specializes in supporting adults who have been recently diagnosed with ADHD, those coping with intense grief, and individuals who have experienced multiple traumas. She uses Brainspotting to empower clients to slay shame, connect to their courage, and lean into their innate confidence. Alejandra is an natural motivator who harnesses her passion, empathy, and creativity to help clients heal the root of their issues in order to live values-driven and fulfilling lives. She loves working with individuals who have tried talk-therapy and are ready to take the next steps toward powerful, deep, and long-lasting healing.
Alejandra owns her own practice where she offers Brainspotting sessions and intensives, professional workshops, and consultation for practitioners both virtually and in person, in Houston, TX. She incorporates Brainspotting with frameworks such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and provides trauma-informed, neuro-affirming services. She is a curious, relational, and collaborative therapist that whole-heartedly believes in the innate power of self-healing found within each individual.
