Online therapy across Texas. In-person therapy in San Antonio.
Move from Pain to Purpose
Now accepting BCBS, Curative, United Healthcare (Optum), and Medicare
(traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans from BCBS and United Healthcare).
I'm Norman Klaunig, a Licensed Professional Counselor offering depth-oriented psychotherapy in English and German. I work with adults navigating major life changes, complex trauma, grief, illness, caregiving, mortality, identity, relationships, and the existential and spiritual questions that arrive when life shifts.
This is not symptom management. Most of the people who find their way to me have already tried other approaches. What they are looking for is a place to understand the patterns underneath what is happening, the questions they actually want to ask, and what the difficult thing in their life is asking of them.
Norman Klaunig, MA, LPC, NCC | Texas LPC #89856
At a glance
Clinical focus: Complex trauma, grief, life transitions, caregiving, illness, end-of-life, religious trauma, near-death and other transpersonal experiences, existential and spiritual concerns
Theoretical orientation: Depth-oriented, existential, trauma-informed, transpersonal, spiritually integrative
Modalities: Individual psychotherapy, in person or secure online video
Therapist: Norman Klaunig, MA, LPC, NCC
License: Texas LPC #89856 | NCC #1722534
Office: 1528 W Contour Dr, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX 78212
Service area: Online statewide in Texas; in person in San Antonio (Alamo Heights, Olmos Park, Monte Vista, Terrell Hills, central San Antonio, and surrounding Hill Country)
Languages: English, German
Insurance accepted: BCBS, Curative, United Healthcare, Medicare (traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans from BCBS and United Healthcare)
Who I work with
You may have come to this page because something in your life has changed — or is changing — and can no longer be set aside. An illness, yours or someone you love. A death. A relationship in trouble. A major decision or a chapter ending. Or a quieter, harder-to-name sense that the way you've been living no longer fits.
This is the kind of moment my clients tend to arrive in. Below are the areas I work in most often.
Adults working through complex trauma and relationship patterns
Early-life wounds that keep showing up in adult relationships, in work, in the body, or in a persistent sense of not quite belonging to your own life. This is depth work, not symptom management. For the clinical distinction between PTSD and complex trauma, see PTSD vs Complex Trauma. The hub for this work is Trauma Therapy.
Adults navigating major life transitions
A career change or collapse, divorce, becoming a parent, leaving a faith or community, immigration and cultural adjustment, the end of a long chapter, or the beginning of one you didn't plan for. Transitions tend to surface what was underneath all along; often, this is when long-buried patterns or trauma finally ask to be addressed. Life transitions therapy explores this in more depth.
Caregivers and partners of people with serious or chronic illness
Including cancer, dementia, and autoimmune or GI conditions like ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Being the well one is its own kind of weight: exhaustion, guilt, resentment, and a slow erosion of who you used to be. That weight often has nowhere to go. It is somewhere here. See caregiver therapy.
Adults facing serious illness or
end-of-life concerns
Your own or a loved one's. Anticipatory grief, fear of death, life review, and the existential questions that arrive with a difficult diagnosis are central to my work. With grieving clients, the work is often from mourning to meaning — not bypassing the loss, but discovering what it is asking of the life that continues. Related: grief counseling and existential therapy.
People who have had near-death experiences (NDEs), spiritually transformative experiences (STEs), or other unusual experiences
If you've had something happen that you don't know where to bring — that felt too strange, too sacred, or too unsettling to mention to your last therapist — you can bring it here. These experiences are welcomed, not pathologized. I have published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies and serve on the Academic and Research Committee of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). More on this work in spiritually integrated therapy.
Adults in midlife and later life, facing role and identity shifts
Retirement, an empty nest, late divorce, a serious diagnosis, the discovery that an outwardly successful life feels hollow inside, or the work of making sense of a life as it is being lived more deeply.
A note on who comes to this work
My clients span adulthood. Many are men in their 20s and 30s working through trauma, relationship patterns, identity, or career direction, and men in midlife and beyond who come to therapy when something finally makes it unavoidable — a health scare, a loss, a relationship in trouble, or a quiet sense that the way they've been living no longer fits. I also work closely with women across adulthood — younger clients in their 20s and 30s navigating early-life trauma, relationship patterns, and life direction, and women in midlife and beyond facing caregiving, grief, identity shifts, or long-buried trauma surfacing later. Some have been in therapy before; for others, it is the first time. What they tend to share is a wish for substantive depth work rather than coping techniques alone.
I welcome clients of all sexual orientations and gender identities, of all races, heritages, abilities, and belief systems.
Conditions and concerns I treat
Complex trauma (CPTSD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Childhood trauma surfacing in adult life
Relational and developmental trauma
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence (DV) — adult survivors, family members, and adult children of DV/IPV homes
Acute, prolonged, complicated, anticipatory, traumatic, and disenfranchised grief
Pet loss and non-death loss (loss of health, role, relationship, faith, home, or chapter of life)
Caregiver burnout, anticipatory grief, and ambiguous loss
Infertility, reproductive grief, IVF anxiety, and pregnancy loss
Religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and faith transitions
Near-death experiences (NDEs), spiritually transformative experiences (STEs), spiritual emergence, and spiritual emergency
Concerns around terminal lucidity and other end-of-life phenomena
Existential anxiety, mortality concerns, and meaning crises
Major life transitions: career change, divorce, retirement, parenthood, empty nest, immigration and cultural adjustment, leaving a faith community
Cultural grief, immigrant identity reorganization, and the long aftermath of cross-cultural moves
Midlife and later-life identity shifts
End-of-life concerns and serious illness (yours or a loved one's)
Identity, authenticity, and the search for purpose
Vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and clinician burnout (in mental health professionals)
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation for trauma therapy online across Texas or in person in San Antonio.
My approach
I work in depth, not on the surface. Many of the people who find me have already tried symptom-management approaches and are looking for something more — a place to understand the patterns underneath, the questions you actually want to ask, and what the difficult thing in your life is asking of you.
My training is in transpersonal counseling, trauma, grief, and end-of-life phenomena. I am EMDR-trained (EMDRIA-approved program), IADC®-trained, and certified in Traumatic Stress Studies through Bessel van der Kolk's Trauma Research Foundation. I draw on existential, depth-oriented, trauma-informed, and spiritually integrative traditions, and I work equally well with religious clients, secular clients, and those somewhere in between. These methods are tools, not a fixed protocol. The work follows the person, not the method.
My work, in a phrase: from pain to purpose.
I see clients in English and German.
Approaches and modalities I draw from
Existential and depth-oriented psychotherapy
Trauma-informed therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
IADC® Therapy (Induced After-Death Communication)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)-inspired parts work
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Written Exposure Therapy (WET)
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) — Diamond Level 1 Certification
Spiritually integrated and transpersonal counseling
TeleMental Health (secure online video therapy)
Specialties
The work is organized into four clinical areas, each with one or more pages that develop it in depth, plus two pages for populations I work with frequently. Each link below leads to a fuller treatment.
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Trauma therapy — heal and own your story
PTSD vs complex trauma — the clinical distinction, in plain language
Religious trauma therapy — harm sustained inside religious environments, and the long process of leaving or changing a faith
Therapy for domestic violence and intimate partner violence — for adult survivors, family members, and adult children of DV/IPV homes
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Grief counseling — move from mourning to meaning
Caregiver therapy — for those who are the well ones
IVF and other assisted reproduction therapy — the emotional, existential, and grief-laden work of trying to have a child
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Existential therapy — become the author of your life
Life transitions therapy — reclaim your identity through change
Existential anxiety therapy — anxiety that is about being itself
Therapy for immigration and cultural adjustment — the inner work of moving across cultures.
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Spiritually integrated therapy — therapy that makes room for spirituality, religion, and transpersonal experience without bracketing them off
Religious trauma therapy — harm sustained inside religious environments, and the long process of leaving or changing a faith
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Therapy for men — depth-oriented work for adult men at any life stage
Therapy for therapists (counselors, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and other psychotherapists) — a colleagues' therapy practice for clinicians at any career stage
Let’s walk together on your path to peace and purpose!
I’m Norman.
Norman Klaunig, MA, LPC, NCC | Texas LPC #89856 | Online therapy across Texas | In-person therapy in San Antonio | English/German
If you are looking for an honest and authentic therapist who gets you and is direct when appropriate, you are in the right place.
If you are looking for a therapist who gets you and is direct when appropriate, you are in the right place. I listen carefully, I take your concerns seriously, and when it serves the work, I tell you what I see — including when that means naming a pattern, asking the harder question, or offering a clinical direction. You are welcome to bring your personal philosophy or spirituality into our sessions.
I invite you to get started!
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Reach out
Book a free 15-minute consultation
or schedule your first session
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Get to work
Embark on a transformative journey
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See change
Experience peace and purpose
Let’s start walking together on your path to peace and purpose!
I offer in-person therapy at my San Antonio office at 1528 W Contour Dr, Suite 102, convenient to Alamo Heights, Olmos Park, Monte Vista, Terrell Hills, and the wider central San Antonio area, with reasonable drives from Boerne, New Braunfels, and the surrounding Hill Country.
Get support at your convenience — wherever you are in Texas!
For clients elsewhere in Texas — Austin, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Marcos, College Station, the Rio Grande Valley, and rural communities where finding a therapist who does this kind of work can be genuinely difficult — I offer secure online video sessions.
Face-to-face therapy sessions via a secure and easy-to-use online platform can
help you to fit therapy into your schedule
save you commuting time
ensure true privacy
offer self-scheduling or rescheduling of sessions
provide access from anywhere in Texas
You just need a private space and a stable internet connection.
(If you prefer therapy in German because that is more comfortable for you, that is OK. Ich spreche gern auch Deutsch mit Dir/Ihnen.)
For fees, insurance, telehealth setup, and in-person availability, see the FAQs.
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