About Austin Hendrickson
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, MAC, MDiv
As a man who has been deeply affected and healed by counseling, I get the need and role of counseling firsthand. This is why I love counseling: I believe humans were created to share their stories and to work through difficulties together. Counseling is my life’s passion. I am truly honored and delighted to now walk alongside others in dark places toward durable hope and lasting change.
I am personally acquainted with the pain of grief. After the loss of my mother to suicide, I began a counseling journey that revealed many unexplored areas in my life that needed compassion and care. These experiences have brought me face to face with life’s difficulties. But God has used these experiences to strengthen my faith in ways I could not have imagined. In these hard places, I have experienced Christ’s grace and companionship in my grief (see Isaiah 53:3-4). God gives me hope for my story and for the stories of my clients.
As I walk in my journey, it is my privilege to walk alongside others who are navigating life’s struggles to find durable hope and lasting change.
My Background
I received my Bachelor’s Degree from the United States Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, CO) in Foreign Area Studies (Russia and Eastern Europe). After graduation, I worked as a military aviator and US Air Force Officer in domestic and international locations. I returned to graduate school to pursue a Master’s of Arts in Counseling and a Master’s of Divinity at Covenant Theological Seminary.
Over the years, as a counselor, I have worked in a community-based counseling center, as a staff counselor for a church counseling center, and I am now in independent practice, working with men, veterans, couples, and families navigating trauma and PTSD, and the many ups and downs of life.
As a former military aviator (pilot) and US Air Force Officer, I care deeply about veterans, cadets, military couples, and their families. I have experienced the amazing highs and all-too-real lows of training and serving domestically and internationally, and I bring a lot of compassion for the men and women and families of the US military.
I have traveled throughout the world during my Air Force career, as well as a humanitarian worker through my church. Seeing the many ways humans experience the world, in all its pain and joy, has only increased my passion to care for others. From working with teenagers and their struggles to individuals seeking hope to the married couple with decades of experience to everyone in between. I love working with people who are struggling and want change.
My Practice
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado and the Commonwealth of Virginia. My therapeutic specialties focus on helping individuals and families find durable hope and lasting change in the midst of trauma, grief, conflict, and the inevitable ups and downs of life.
My office in Colorado Springs is where I meet clients for face-to-face conversations in a quiet setting overlooking the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. I want to create a space for my clients to take a breath in the presence of a compassionate, listening ear. I love to meet my clients where they are with grace and the care that I myself have received.
My Life
When I am not in a professional setting, you can find me enjoying the outdoors and the wonderful and varied landscape of God’s good earth. I enjoy anything related to hiking and trekking, and when I can, fishing for an amazing (or not-so-amazing) catch. Indoors, you’ll find me relaxing while watching a show or fixing something around the house.
I have a wonderful wife, and four (very) active, loving children. Our life is a mix of school, soccer coaching, creating, and/or trying to create snowmen and/or snow towers. As God allows, I am also humbly growing a garden where I can quietly nurture myself and some nice, green growing things.
Curious but have questions?
Trying to figure out if a counselor is a good fit can feel overwhelming (I know this feeling firsthand!)
But you don’t have to dive in all at once. Schedule a time to chat, and start with questions. I can share what counseling with me would look like, and you can go from there.
Free. 15 minutes. No obligation.