Allison Quinones, LCSW Austin, TX

Hi, I’m Allison (she/her).

I’m a therapist, private practice owner, and a white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterosexual, university-educated woman based in Austin. I also carry the privileges that come with being middle-class, licensed, and sitting in the therapist chair. Part of my work is staying aware of how those identities—and the power that comes with them—shape the room. I believe good therapy includes humility, accountability, and a willingness to name context rather than pretend it doesn’t matter.

I was raised in the General Conference Mennonite tradition. As an adult, I spent years in evangelical and charismatic spaces before beginning a conscious process of deconstruction in 2020. My relationship with faith, power, community, and belonging has not been simple. I know what it is like to wrestle with beliefs that once gave structure to your life but no longer fit. I know what it is like to feel the grief, disorientation, fear, and relief that can come when questioning what you were taught was unquestionable.

That lived experience shapes how I show up in this work.

I specialize in supporting people navigating religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and the identity shifts that often follow. Many of my clients are untangling shame, grief, anxiety, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and the loss of community that can come with leaving or redefining a belief system. Others come to therapy because they are in the middle of major life transitions—divorce, changing family roles, shifts in identity, or the painful process of building a life that feels more honest and aligned.

Alongside my clinical work, I also bring my own lived experience of moving through major life transitions, including divorce. I know that change can shake the foundations of identity, belonging, and safety. Sometimes healing begins not with certainty, but with learning how to stay with the questions long enough to hear your own voice again.

I am an LGBTQ+ affirming, anti-racist, feminist, trauma-informed therapist committed to equity and inclusive care. I believe healing asks us not only to understand individual pain, but also to recognize the broader systems—religious, cultural, familial, and political—that shape how that pain gets carried. I continue the ongoing work of unlearning colonial, patriarchal, and oppressive narratives in my own life and practice.

Alongside education, training, and clinical experience, I bring myself as a human being into the therapy room. I’m not interested in fixing you, prescribing certainty, or pushing spiritual answers. I care about building a relationship where you feel safe enough to be honest—where doubt is welcome, anger has room, humor can exist, and nothing important has to be edited to make someone else comfortable.

If you’re deconstructing, grieving what you’ve lost, rebuilding after divorce, or trying to make sense of who you are now, I want therapy to be a place where you can slow down, breathe, and begin listening for what feels true to you.

Healing does not require having all the answers. Sometimes it begins with finally having space to ask better questions.