Dr. Nicholas KardarasResidential Treatment in Austin, TX

Credentials

Psychologist

Role

Residential Treatment

Recovery focus

Co-occurring

Other focus areas

CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.

DBT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.

Psychodynamic

Psychodynamic Therapy. Explores the older patterns and unconscious dynamics underneath the surface behavior. Slower than skills-based work, deeper on the questions of why you reach for the thing you reach for.

Family systems

Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.

Meditation

A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.

Somatic therapy

Somatic Therapy. Works with how the body holds trauma and stress, breath, posture, sensation, alongside the cognitive work. Useful when the body still feels activated even after talking the situation through.

Medication management

Medication Management. Ongoing monitoring + adjustment of psychiatric or addiction medications by a prescribing clinician. Often paired with therapy, not in place of it.