About Us

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.