The best medical spas in Austin.

The best medical spas in Austin are Maui MedSpa, founded in 2020 by physician Dr. Winston A. Turnage, who is also its named medical director, Rejuvenate Austin, whose site names Dr. Jessica Wright as owner and medical director, and Refine Aesthetics, whose about menu names a PA-C chief executive, a family nurse practitioner, a registered nurse, and a physician. Nine of the eleven clinics ranked name at least one clinician with credentials on their own site, seven name a physician, and every one is independent and Austin-run. The national chains and dermatology groups that dominate the category are documented in the cut list.

Carissa.

Writer, The Austin Newsletter · Updated September 2026

A medical spa is a clinic that sells aesthetic medicine without surgery: neurotoxins, fillers, lasers, skin treatments, and increasingly body contouring and weight-loss programs. Texas requires a physician to stand behind the medical side, and the single most useful thing a med spa can do for a prospective patient is say, on its own website, who that physician is and who will actually be treating you. This page ranks Austin’s independent med spas on exactly that: the credentials each one publishes, as it publishes them.

That standard cuts more of the category than you might expect. The businesses that dominate an Austin med-spa search are national chains with dozens of locations, dermatology groups with a cosmetic wing, day-spa chains with a med menu, and a training academy that is also an esthetics school. Several run excellent rooms, and the cut list explains each one, but this page ranks clinics that are independent, Austin-run, and in the business of aesthetic medicine first. Two of the eleven were founded or are owned by physicians, two more name an advanced-practice nurse as founder or lead injector, and one is led by a physician assistant. Seven name a physician on the site, six of them as medical director, and every entry says which.

A note on what this page does not do. It does not evaluate results, safety records, or outcomes, and it makes no claims about any treatment. Prices appear only where a clinic publishes them, and exactly one of the eleven states as policy that every price is on the site. What you will find is a clear account of who is in the room, what is on the menu, and how each clinic describes its own approach, which is the part of the decision a website can actually inform.

Considered and cut

Places that came up in the research and did not make the list, and why.

• NakedMDA national chain, in its own words: more than forty locations across California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Tennessee, with a menu sold like an online store. Cut by the independence rule, not on quality, alongside LaserAway, SkinSpirit, It’s A Secret, and VIO.
• Hiatus Day Spa and Med SpaA day-spa chain whose own locations menu lists ten Texas rooms across eight cities, with a med-spa menu attached; the Austin one is a single row on it. Cut on the med-spa-first standard, as are Viva and milk + honey, which are Austin-founded day spas with a med menu rather than med spas.
• The Injection RoomOne Austin location on South Congress, two in San Antonio, a toll-free number, and a title tag calling itself the best medical spa in San Antonio and Austin, with no founding city published anywhere. Its printed per-unit pricing is genuinely useful, and it is printed: $9 a unit for Xeomin, $10 for Dysport and Letybo, $11 for Daxxify. But a multi-city operation that says nothing about where it began cannot pass this page’s independence standard.
• Westlake Dermatology and the dermatology groupsWestlake Dermatology alone accounts for seven Austin rows in our census, and Snyder Dermatology and Revelus Dermatology are medical practices first with cosmetic services alongside. Dermatology is a medical specialty and a different product from a med spa, and this page does not rank it.
• Skin Science Soul by Dr. SholarA plastic-surgery practice, as its own title says, whose menu includes in-office surgery with blepharoplasty and labiaplasty alongside its aesthetic and skin services. Cut because a surgical practice with a spa wing is a different product, not on any judgment of the work.
• Texas Laser and AestheticsFounded in 2012 as a training academy by its own account, and it says it has since licensed and certified thousands of people in esthetics; the site runs its clinic and its esthetics school together and is upfront about serving clients and students at once. That is a different model from what this page ranks.
• THE ONE ClinicA Korean sculpting-facial studio founded, by its own account, by twin sisters, one a licensed acupuncturist and one a licensed esthetician. Its menu is sculpting facials, scalp and hair therapy, microneedling, and peels, with no injectables, no lasers, and no physician on it. The census tags it a med spa; it is a facial studio, and a specific one.
• Glo Med Spa and Grace MedSpaThe two alternates. Both are independent Austin clinics with a named owner, and both stay candidates for a future pass. They sit on the bench rather than the list because the eleven above cleared this page’s published-credentials test first.

How this list was made

This list started from our census of Austin businesses under medical-spa categories, a pool dominated by dermatology groups, day-spa chains with med menus, national aesthetics chains, and a training academy. Reading every candidate’s own site separated the independent med-spa-first clinics from the rest. Two rules then govern everything ranked. First, med-spa-first: the business’s product is non-surgical aesthetic medicine, which cuts dermatology and plastic-surgery practices with cosmetic wings, day spas with a med menu, IV lounges, weight-loss clinics, a school that is also a clinic, and a facial studio with no medical services. Second, independence: every clinic here is independent and Austin-run by its own site’s account, and multi-city operations that publish nothing about their origin cannot pass. Within the list, rank order follows published credentials: named physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and registered nurses with their credentials on the site rank above clinics that publish tenure and a menu without provider names, and every entry says which it is. Every credential, service, and price printed here is as published on each clinic’s own site on the day we checked it, and each entry carries the URLs and the date. We print no founding year a clinic does not publish, no provider name we could not read on its pages, and no efficacy, safety, or outcome claim of our own. We echo no clinic’s testimonials, ratings, or self-superlatives, and no outlet’s award. Several candidates whose sites could not be read by our tools are absent from both lists rather than judged, and will be re-checked. Nobody paid to be here, no clinic saw the list before publication, and the cut list explains every near-miss.

The census number that explains med-spa shopping in Austin: 134 Austin businesses carry a medical-spa tag in our census and 109 of them have twenty or more reviews, which makes the category look far deeper than it shops. Ten of those rows carry the word dermatology in the name, seven of them one group, Westlake Dermatology, and another thirteen belong to the eight national and day-spa chains named in the cut list. What is left is the independent, Austin-run, med-spa-first bench this page ranks. Of the eleven clinics on it, nine name at least one clinician with credentials, seven name a physician, six name a medical director, two are founded or owned by a physician, and exactly one states as policy that every price is listed online. In a category sold on before-and-after photos, the clinics willing to say who is in the room fit on one page.