Tisha Nuñez, LMSW, provides therapy services for teenagers and for women navigating family dynamics, pressure, identity, and culture. Rooted in authentic, humanistic and existential therapy and a person shared by the environment perspective, she offers an approach that honors each client's story rather than trying to rewrite it.

Tisha has spent her career in residential treatment centers, working alongside teens in the foster care system at nearly every level of care. She began as a youth care counselor at The Settlement Home for Children, supporting residents with daily routines, emotional regulation, and coping skills, and accompanying them to forensic interviews and court hearings. As a clinical administrative assistant, she developed individualized service plans, advocated for youth during admissions, and trained law enforcement in de-escalation to reduce retraumatization. She went on to serve as a cottage lead, providing case management and supervising direct care staff, and most recently as a therapist and supervisor, guiding teens and the teams who care for them. This depth of experience allows her to meet adolescents with steadiness, patience, and a genuine understanding of how hard-won trust can be.

She also brings experience from the Travis County Correctional Complex, where she facilitated individual therapy and groups focused on intimate partner violence, emotional intelligence, and changing relational patterns. 

Tisha is especially drawn to how early experiences shape the patterns we carry forward.  Rather than focusing on the event that caused the pain, she pays attention to the survival adaptations of the nervous system: the patterns that developed to keep you safe, what they have been protecting, and how they can become strengths. Her work is grounded in humanistic and existential therapy, attachment theory, and a person-in-environment perspective, with a focus on helping clients understand themselves within the families, cultures, and systems that shaped them.

Tisha believes clients are the experts on their own stories, and she creates space to explore those stories with curiosity instead of judgment. Guided by the work of Dr. Bruce Perry she understands that the body holds onto what the mind may have forgotten. Sometimes it even holds patterns and feelings that never fully belonged to us, passed down through families and generations before we ever had words for them.

As a lesbian and Mexican woman, Tisha brings lived understanding to clients exploring cultural identity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. She helps clients untangle internalized shame and build a confident sense of self and an internal sense of safety. She has a special place in her heart for eldest daughters and high-functioning women who carry a great deal for their families and may not feel they have the space or capacity to "unravel." Her hope is that in her office, individuals have the space to just be. 

She offers both in-person and virtual therapy sessions at the Fort View office. If you or your teen are ready to understand your patterns with compassion instead of judgment, reach out to schedule a consultation today.