Thad Cox Ph.D., LPA, LPC-S — Psychotherapist in Austin, TX

That is a solid therapist. He is intuitive and insightful. I highly recommend him.

If you ask me, Thad should probably have to undergo a lengthy probationary period of heavy oversight if he’s to go on practicing. I just know that I personally don’t have enough hard evidence of negligence to cause any trouble for him, so I’m resorting to this trashier arm of the law. I don’t know what exactly happened, but Thad was forced to leave the group he was practicing with when I first saw him. His employer could only tell me it was a tough call and they had to let him go. During my sessions with Thad, he divulged to me that, while I had been seeing him, a “borderline” client (I put quotes around the word because Thad would often use it as a term of abuse) had undertaken a “stalking campaign” against him. I don’t know the details, but he sure seemed defensive about it. There was absolutely no reason to bring this up. He also divulged to me that, while I had been seeing him, his own psychoanalyst had decided to terminate their therapeutic relationship. I don’t know why, but I would guess there’s way more here than I’m aware of. He then began seeing (he told me) an IFS therapist. I found this interesting because, midway through my time seeing him (a little under a year, on and off), he abandoned the psychoanalytic frame we began with and started to try to force every session to be an IFS session. Repeatedly I told him I didn’t relate to this method or its vocabulary and that I felt like this was a personal hangup on his part, but he kept trying to force it anyway. Our last session was an absolute trainwreck. He was determined to blame everything that had gone wrong in our time together on me, completely unwilling to pause a moment and reflect on himself. He was directly insulting. He derided my intelligence, my maturity, my drug addictions, my sanity. It was unprecedented in my 16 years of seeing therapists. He seems to have a hierarchy of mental-health diagnoses. He considers himself schizoid, and, coincidentally, the schizoid situation is for him “the best” (his words) compromise. Numerous times he voiced his disdain for borderline and narcissistic individuals. He had no problem rescheduling sessions on short notice. He offered me hape (ceremonial tobacco snuff), unprompted, knowing I have issues with substance use. He couldn’t hear it any time you had a problem with something he did. He tried to get me to start spending money seeing his wife for yogic therapy. He’s infatuated with silly little fads like EMDR and has no patience for actually getting to know someone at an intimate level. He wasn’t interested in me. He was obsessed with the reflection of himself he saw in me. He’s completely incapable of supporting any feeling of guilt. This guy really should not be practicing. He’s bad news all around.

Out of the handful of therapists I've seen, Thad is the only one that actually helped. You won't regret going to see him. I don't know what I would have done without his help.

By far the best experience I have had in therapy. I have been in therapy many times in my life. For crisis management, relationship issues, trauma, addiction issues... (I'm pretty sick) If you don't know anything about REMD I highly recommend you try it to desensitize yourself from debilitating emotional stresses. In addition he is just very easy to talk with and really non judgemental. I know that should be a part of therapy but with him I feel safe on some serious issues. A+