
I am an insight-based marriage and family therapist with a background in wellness, history, and philosophy. I specialize in self-identity and relationship dynamics as a trained family systems therapist. My work centers on helping clients cultivate a deeper understanding of their lived experience as a pathway to meaningful growth. I focus particularly on uncovering and working through unconscious or difficult-to-express dimensions of experience as a means to develop long-term change.
Clinically, I draw from psychoanalytic and existential traditions rooted in object relations theory. As a doctoral candidate, my research explores the relational and existential dimensions of grief, reflecting my commitment to understanding the deeper forces that shape healing. I have experience across private practice, academic settings, and large clinical settings, alongside insight shaped by my own lived experience.
Ph.D. Candidate - Marriage & Family Therapy
(June 2026 dissertation defense)
Texas Woman's University
Master's Degree - History
(2025 Alumni)
Eastern Washington University
Summa Cum Laude
Master's Degree - Marriage and Family Therapy
(2019 Alumni)
Touro University
Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor's Degree - Kinesiology/Business
(2008 Alumni)
Texas Woman's University
Additional Education- Philosophy at Holy Apostles College & Seminary
Certifications - Certified Personal Trainer (2005) & Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (2010)
Certification in Philosophy (pending)
LMFT State of Texas - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
LMFT State of Florida - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AAMFT Supervisor Candidate
*LMFT-S State of Texas Supervisor *(Pending/June 2026)
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
American Historical Association (AHA)
International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)
Yoga Alliance (YA)
Existential Crisis in Maternal Death: Object Relations and The Dual Process Model (IPA) (Pending dissertation, 2026)
History of Women in Object Relations - Published Presentation (TWU, 2024)
Addressing Existential Concerns in Families Amongst Contemporary Shifts: A Psychoanalytic, Object Relations Perspective - (Routledge, 2023)
•Hegelian Family Systems to Kierkegaardian Existentialism: A Synthesis of Individual Choice in Family Dynamics
•Lacan's Empirical Problem to American Pragmatism •The Absent Mother and the Fate of Hate in Object Relations
•The Maternal Symbolic (Lacan through Object Relations) •Esoteric Epistemology (In the work of René Descartes & Manly P. Hall)
- Adjunct Professor - Texas Woman's University
- Graduate Teaching Assistant - Texas Woman's University
- University Guest Lecturer - TWU & Saint Louis University
- Doctoral Student Representative -Texas Woman's University
- Peer Research Assistant - Texas Woman's University
- Graduate Assistant - Texas Woman's University
death & grief, older persons & aging, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, object relations & family sysintellectual history, philosophy, maternal theory & family of origin existential crisis, spirituality,
qualitative studies (IPA & narrative), & theoretical development
WisdomWay Family Therapy - Dallas, TX (LMFT) 2025-present
Denton Family Therapy - Denton, TX (LMFT) 2022-2025
Ananda Counseling & Hypnotherapy - Denton, TX (LCDC/LMFT-A) 2020-2022
Vertava Health - Scurry, TX (LCDC) 2019-2020
United Through Hope - Denton, TX (Practicum) 2017-2018
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Currently Available at 6510 Abrams Road, Suite 411, Dallas, Texas 75231, USA
OnlinE in TX & FL
chausmann@wisdomwayfamilytherapy.com