Trauma Therapy for Women in Houston, TX.
You don’t have to call it trauma for it to have changed you.
Maybe you don't even know why you're on this page. Nothing catastrophic happened. You're fine, mostly. You're functioning. But there's this undercurrent you can't quite shake. You feel on edge, shut down, wait for the other shoe to drop, never fully relaxing even when everything is okay.
What trauma actually is:
Trauma isn’t about what happened. It’s about how you experienced it.
We tend to think of trauma as something big and obvious. One significant, life-changing event. And while it can absolutely be that, it isn't always.
Sometimes it's a lot quieter. It's growing up never quite knowing what you were walking into when you got home. It's spending years feeling like love was something you had to earn. It's a relationship that slowly convinced you that you were the problem. None of it felt like trauma in the moment, but over time it shaped the way you see yourself, the way you move through the world, and the way your body responds to stress today and that counts. All of it counts.
Big T Trauma - A single significant event that overwhelmed your ability to cope. An accident, a loss, abuse, or assault.
Little t Trauma: An accumulation of experiences over time that slowly shaped how you see yourself and the world. Emotional neglect, criticism, unstable relationships, always having to be the “strong” one.
Relational Trauma: Would that come from relationships. The people who were supposed to make you feel safe, seen, and loved but didn’t. This is often the hardest one to name because it can feel like “it’s just how things were.”
Does this sound like you?
You've been called strong your whole life. And you are.
But strength can also be a really convincing disguise.
A lot of the women I work with are high functioning. They're showing up, achieving, keeping it all together. From the outside everything looks fine, but inside they're exhausted in a way they can't explain. .
You shut down or go numb when emotions get too intense
You struggle to trust people even when you really want to
You feel anxious in situations that logically you shouldn’t
You startle easily or feel on edge a lot of the time, waiting for something to go wrong
You’ve been told you’re too sensitive or too reactive
How we work together
Before we go into the hard stuff, we build something first.
A lot of trauma therapy jumps straight into processing difficult memories, but my approach is a little different. Before we go anywhere near the hard stuff, we focus on your nervous system, helping you understand what's actually happening in your body, why it happens, and what it means. Because when you understand your nervous system, something really important shifts.
It stops feeling like there's something wrong with you and it starts feeling like something that happened to you, that your body learned to protect you from, and that you now have the tools to work with.
step one
Build safety first.
We start by helping your nervous system feel regulated and safe without pressure or rushing. This is the foundation everything else is built on
step two
Understand your nervous system.
Psychoeducation is a big part of my work. When you understand why your body does what it does, it stops feeling like a flaw and starts feeling like information
step three
Process at your pace.
Using Brainspotting, DBT, CBT, and Psychodynamic approaches, we work through what happened in a way that always feels manageable. You are always in control.