Dr. Steven Brownlow

Dr. Steven Brownlow is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed professional counselor with supervisory qualifications practicing in Texas. He brings 25 years of clinical experience to work with people who feel overwhelmed by powerful emotions.

His clinical focus is on what he calls runaway emotions - whether that looks like grief, despair, shame, helplessness, guilt, loneliness, or another intense feeling. He describes the experience of getting stuck in ruts where life feels like it is happening to you and you are being carried by currents you cannot control. Those moments, when emotional regulation fails, can produce trauma that affects a person for years.

Throughout his career Dr. Brownlow has developed and tested therapy protocols aimed specifically at healing those situations. He reports these approaches have proved effective across a variety of settings, with many different presenting problems, and across an age span from early childhood through late adulthood. He particularly enjoys working with people who consider themselves “too sensitive” or who have been told they are too sensitive. He rejects the idea of being “too sensitive,” and helps clients learn to use sensitivity as an asset rather than a liability so that others' emotions no longer feel tormenting. By reducing the burden of absorbing others' emotional states, clients can begin to imagine and shape the life they want once they are less overwhelmed.