Welcome
Mental health care works best when it is personal: a doctor who knows your whole story and a plan built around your life, not a template. I started Austin Mind & Wellness to practice that way, with expertise, continuity, and steadiness at every visit.
I am a board-certified psychiatrist, licensed in Texas, with 20 years of experience as a physician. I completed my residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a clinical research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. I bring that research grounding to every visit. My focus is on understanding the whole picture: what you are experiencing, what has shaped it, and what keeps it going. That understanding guides a plan built around you, rather than a diagnosis alone. I am conservative with medication, and focused on what will actually help.
Daniel C. Mathews, M.D.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Experimental therapeutics, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Mental health is personal
Mental health is deeply personal. Much like a fingerprint, no two people experience it in the exact same way. With clinical experience, however, distinct patterns emerge, particularly among professionals who carry a lot. Recognizing these patterns allows us to understand your story faster.
A formal diagnosis matters, and we approach it with rigor. But true well-being reaches beyond a label. Your physical health, natural temperament, thinking patterns, and core beliefs all shape how symptoms manifest. We want to look at the complete picture.
Our role is to connect those pieces and guide you toward clear, actionable steps that genuinely fit your life. Patients often share the same consistent feedback: they feel unhurried and heard, valued as a whole person, and supported by therapy alongside the thoughtful, conservative use of medication. That is the experience we strive to create for every visit.
In their words
Professionals and business owners
I work with people whose work and responsibilities leave little room for being unwell: professionals, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. Many of you are the person others rely on, and you have built your life on being steady. Read more on the For professionals page.
Where I come from
Before focusing on my own patients, I held senior leadership roles in large global matrix organizations and in hospital administration.
If you are a professional, an entrepreneur, or a small business owner, you do not have to explain what a board meeting, a deadline, or a payroll week feels like. I understand that world. If you are also balancing the demands of family, I understand that too. Outside the practice, I'm a husband and father. Work and home rarely stay separate, and I keep both in mind when we talk about your care.
How I work
Care begins with a thorough evaluation of how your physical health, temperament, and mindset affect one another. We then build a plan together, and I explain each option, including medication, TMS, therapy, and lifestyle changes, and its tradeoffs, so you can decide with full information.
How evaluations work
Your first evaluation takes up to 90 minutes. Our goal is to understand you, not only to confirm a diagnosis. We talk about your symptoms and how they affect work and relationships; family history and temperament; thinking patterns and beliefs; medical conditions and medications; sleep, alcohol, substances, and daily habits; and what has and has not helped before.
Therapy inside the appointment
We bring therapy into most appointments, using approaches chosen for you and what you are facing: CBT, ACT, mindfulness-based approaches, psychodynamic and insight-oriented work, and supportive therapy. Insight-oriented work can help if you want to understand where a pattern comes from and what keeps it going.
We see patients at all sorts of frequencies. Visits may be weekly or every other week during difficult periods or when more intensive therapy is needed, and monthly or quarterly depending on need.
What guides my care
Conservative with medication, practical about your schedule, attentive to the pattern beneath your symptoms, and clear about next steps. You see me at every visit. Read the full approach on the For professionals page.
What to expect from this practice
What this practice is
Visits are unhurried: a first evaluation of up to 90 minutes and follow-up visits of 30 to 45 minutes, with the same physician at every appointment. Appointments are scheduled in advance, and care is planned over time, not rushed.
What this practice is not
This is not a 5 to 10 minute medication-check practice. We do not offer on-demand access, texting, or crisis management services, and the practice is not set up for psychiatric emergencies or intensive outpatient care.
Why these limits exist
We do not prescribe controlled substances to patients who are currently misusing drugs or alcohol, and urine drug screens are part of care. The practice is also not a good fit for acute substance use issues. Patients who drink often or use marijuana frequently are generally not a good fit. Using psychotropic medications together with drugs or alcohol can cause more impairment, and our first rule is to do no harm. These limits are deliberate. They protect the kind of care we want to provide.