Private Psychotherapy for Austin’s Founders and High Performers
Austin’s founder and tech executive population has built significant things. They’ve scaled companies, raised rounds, navigated exits, recruited teams, and made decisions under conditions that left no room for doubt. What they haven’t had is a clinical resource that fits the life they’re actually living.
General therapy practices don’t fit. Wellness platforms don’t fit. Corporate EAPs are built for a different workforce. And insurance-based care creates a paper trail that founders, executives, and investors cannot afford.
Kyden Counseling is built for this population. Private, cash-pay psychotherapy via secure telehealth. No insurance. No diagnosis required. No record unless you direct it. Direct access to the clinician.
Who Calls From Austin
Founders who exited and don’t know who they are without the company. Startup CEOs who have been running at capacity for years and are watching what that has done to their health, their relationships, and their ability to think clearly. VCs and investors who carry portfolio pressure that doesn’t have a visible outlet. Executives who relocated to Austin when the company grew and are managing everything that came with that transition.
Couples where both partners are operating in high-demand roles and the relationship has been getting whatever’s left — which stopped being enough a long time ago.
What Brings Austin Clients to This Practice
- Post-exit identity crisis — the company was the identity, and the company is gone
- Founder burnout that has crossed into depression or anxiety affecting daily function
- A relationship that built real equity over years and is now running on fumes
- Substance use that scaled with the startup phase and didn’t scale back down
- A sense that something is wrong that is hard to name — not a clinical crisis, but not sustainable either
- Performance degradation that doesn’t have an obvious external cause
- The weight of decisions made under impossible conditions that still live in the body
Telehealth — How It Works in Austin
Sessions are 60 minutes via secure HIPAA-compliant telehealth. A private space — a home office in the Domain or South Congress, a hotel during travel, a room with a door you can close. A reliable connection. A device with a camera.
No commute. No waiting room. No scheduling friction that prevents someone with a full calendar from maintaining consistent care. You connect when you need to, from where you are.
The Clinician
Mack Kyles, LPC, MSW. Combat veteran. 20 years of clinical experience across crisis intervention, trauma, addiction, family systems, and marriage and family therapy. Private practice built for high performers — founders, executives, athletes, and high-net-worth families who need a clinician who understands their world.
He understands what it costs to build something at scale. He understands the identity component of the founder role — and what happens when that role changes or ends.
Services Available to Austin Clients
Individual Psychotherapy — $250 per 60-minute telehealth session
Couples Psychotherapy — $350 per 60-minute telehealth session
Family Psychotherapy — $350 per 60-minute telehealth session
Half-Day Intensive — $5,000, in-person by arrangement. Strong fit for founders post-exit and for couples at a real decision point who need concentrated work in a single structured session.
All sessions are cash-pay. No insurance accepted or filed. Superbill available upon request for PPO plans.