Grace & Emerge Recovery

Grace & Emerge Recovery Find your people. Find your purpose. Find yourself. Trauma, mental health, and addiction treatment for women in Austin.

Samantha Bennett’s approach to therapy centers on helping people reconnect with themselves.Drawing from somatic therapy,...
03/30/2026

Samantha Bennett’s approach to therapy centers on helping people reconnect with themselves.

Drawing from somatic therapy, parts work, attachment work, and mindfulness, Sam focuses on the relationship between the nervous system, the body, and emotional experience. She believes healing happens when people can explore their inner world at their own pace with the support of an attuned therapist.

Her work invites curiosity, compassion, and a deeper sense of self understanding.

If you’re heading to Austin for the Lonestar Collective Conference, we’d love to see you before it all begins.We’re open...
03/27/2026

If you’re heading to Austin for the Lonestar Collective Conference, we’d love to see you before it all begins.

We’re opening our doors at Grace & Emerge for a casual open house. Nothing formal, just a good time with good people.

May 12 | 1–3 PM
7756 Northcross Dr, Suite 203

Come by, stay awhile, or just pop in and say hello.

RSVP here: https://www.graceandemergerecovery.com/grace-emerge-open-house-2026

Originally from Dallas, Joey spent a decade working as an actor, choreographer, and playwright before entering the couns...
03/27/2026

Originally from Dallas, Joey spent a decade working as an actor, choreographer, and playwright before entering the counseling field. His work as a therapist has focused largely on grief, loss, and complex trauma, including time at the Austin Center for Grief and Loss.

Joey works with clients navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and complex trauma. He joined Grace & Emerge because of the opportunity to collaborate with a team deeply committed to helping women navigate meaningful transformation.

A regulated nervous system can ramp up when something actually requires your attention and come back down when it's hand...
03/25/2026

A regulated nervous system can ramp up when something actually requires your attention and come back down when it's handled.

A dysregulated system stays ramped up all the time or can't ramp up at all. You're lying in bed at midnight with your heart racing about something that happened three days ago. Or you're sitting in a meeting completely blank and foggy when you need to be present.

Your system isn't responding to what's in front of you. It's responding to years of learned patterns about what's safe and what isn't. You can't talk yourself out of this. The only way through is giving your body enough repetitions of actual safety that it starts to believe things have changed.

This work takes time, and it doesn't happen in a straight line.

Luz Gallegos and Tyler McKay are two team members who help create the day-to-day structure and support that makes recove...
03/23/2026

Luz Gallegos and Tyler McKay are two team members who help create the day-to-day structure and support that makes recovery possible.

Luz serves as Director of Housing and leads the residential environment where many of our clients spend the majority of their time. Originally from Denver and now proudly calling Austin home, Luz entered the behavioral health field after her own recovery journey. She is dedicated to creating spaces where women feel safe and supported.

Tyler McKay works closely with clients as a Case Manager, helping them navigate everything from recovery planning to practical life skills like financial literacy. His experience in the recovery field began after his own treatment journey in Austin and has grown into a deep commitment to helping others rebuild their lives.

Their work reflects the everyday foundation that allows healing to take root.

Lauren Anderson and Jenna Mathias are often among the first people someone meets when connecting with Grace & Emerge.Lau...
03/20/2026

Lauren Anderson and Jenna Mathias are often among the first people someone meets when connecting with Grace & Emerge.

Lauren Anderson is our Client Services & Operations Manager and plays a vital role in supporting the women who come through our program. A Texas native with a background in psychology and human development, Lauren brings both professional and lived experience of recovery to her work. She believes strongly in building authentic relationships with our clients and helping women step into new ways of living.

Jenna Mathias leads business development at Grace & Emerge. With a degree in Business Administration from Baylor and her own recovery journey guiding her work, Jenna is strongly committed to connecting women and families with the support they deserve.

Together, Lauren and Jenna help create the relationships that often begin the path toward healing.

These are the people who once needed safety, too.Who were learning the world, just like you.Who grew through their own s...
03/19/2026

These are the people who once needed safety, too.
Who were learning the world, just like you.
Who grew through their own stories.
Who grew up and chose to help — and still carry their younger selves with them.

Before the roles and responsibilities,
there was a younger version of each of them.

Today, they use that growth to walk beside you.
These are the people holding space for your healing.

Attachment trauma is what happens when the people raising you were inconsistent, dismissive, or scary. You learned early...
03/18/2026

Attachment trauma is what happens when the people raising you were inconsistent, dismissive, or scary. You learned early that people leave, that your feelings are inconvenient, or that getting close to someone means eventually getting hurt. So now you do things that make no logical sense.

You pick fights with people who are being kind to you. You go cold the second someone gets too close. You convince yourself they're going to leave anyway, so you might as well control when it happens.

It's not that you don't want love or connection. It's that your body remembers what happened last time you trusted someone, and it's trying to prevent that from happening again.

Recognizing these patterns doesn't fix them immediately, but it does help you understand that you're responding exactly the way you were taught to respond.

We’re so proud of our team here at Grace & Emerge and we want all of you to know all of us! Over the next several weeks,...
03/17/2026

We’re so proud of our team here at Grace & Emerge and we want all of you to know all of us!

Over the next several weeks, we'll be introducing the team behind the work: the clinicians, staff, and leaders who walk alongside the women in our care every day.
Today we start where the story began.

Laurel Tracy and Leah Malone founded Grace & Emerge in 2017 out of their own journeys through recovery and years of work in behavioral health. They built this program on the belief that women deserve treatment environments grounded in experience, strength, and love, and that real healing requires more than a single level of care. The result is a phased continuum of care designed to address the complex trauma behind each woman's story, in a way that supports lasting, sustainable wellness.

Both bring lived experience, professional training, and a deep respect for the complexity of healing. That combination is what Grace & Emerge was built on, and it shapes everything about how care is delivered here.

We look forward to introducing the rest of the team in the weeks ahead.

Emotional dysregulation is when your feelings escalate faster than you can catch them and take longer to settle than mak...
03/11/2026

Emotional dysregulation is when your feelings escalate faster than you can catch them and take longer to settle than makes sense for what happened.

Maybe you snap at someone over something tiny and then you're furious for three hours. Or you feel rejected by a text message and spend the whole day in a shame spiral.

It's not that you're overreacting on purpose. It’s just that your nervous system doesn't have good brakes. It goes from fine to completely overwhelmed without much in between.

This happens when you grew up in situations where emotions were either ignored completely or were the only way to be heard. Your system learned to go big or shut down, and now it doesn't know how to do anything else.

Understanding what's happening in your nervous system is the first step toward working with it instead of against it.

Hypers*xuality gets talked about in whispers, if at all, because we don't have good language for it that isn't shame-bas...
03/04/2026

Hypers*xuality gets talked about in whispers, if at all, because we don't have good language for it that isn't shame-based.

But for people who experience it, hypers*xuality is often less about the s*x itself and more about using s*xual behavior to self-soothe, dissociate, or feel a sense of control or validation.

It can show up after trauma as a way to reclaim agency over your body or to reenact familiar patterns in an attempt to resolve them. It can also be a way to feel alive when you're numb, or to quiet intrusive thoughts through intensity and distraction.

Treatment becomes about understanding what need the behavior is trying to meet and finding other ways to meet it.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our recent networking event in Austin, hosted in partnership with Maxwell Recove...
02/27/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our recent networking event in Austin, hosted in partnership with Maxwell Recovery Services.

The event kicked off with a CEU panel led by directors of area programs at Release Recovery. Then over the course of three days, we visited Annex Mental Health, The Arbor Behavioral Healthcare, Driftwood Recovery, Alchemy Collective, and other local programs.

We are grateful to stand alongside providers who are deeply committed to thoughtful, relationship-centered behavioral health care.

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