You survived something. You don't have to keep living as though it is still happening.

Trauma-Informed & Relational

Trauma Is More Than What Happened to You

Trauma affects how your brain and nervous system process safety, threat, and connection. You may understand intellectually that the danger has passed, while your body continues to react as though it hasn't.

My approach begins with the understanding that you are not broken. Your mind and body adapted to survive something difficult. Together, we work to determine if those adaptations are still serving you.

Understanding the Impact

Nervous System & Safety

Over-Functioning & Control

Relational & Emotional Disconnect

Hypervigilance, constant scanning for threat, anxiety, intrusive memories, or feeling like your body never receives the message that danger has passed.

Perfectionism, emotional shutdown, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, or feeling responsible for everyone around you.

Emotional numbness, difficulty trusting others or yourself, shame, guilt, and feeling safe only when staying hyper-alert.

Trauma is not simply a memory of a difficult event. It can affect the way your brain and nervous system process threat, safety, connection, and emotion. You might notice:

Hypervigilance or constantly scanning for danger

Anxiety, panic, or a persistent sense that something bad is going to happen

Avoidance of people, places, conversations, or situations that remind you of what happened

Intrusive memories, nightmares, or unwanted thoughts

Emotional numbness

• Trauma-Informed. Evidence-Based. Relational.

My approach to trauma therapy begins with the understanding that you are not broken because your mind and body adapted to survive something difficult.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Supervisor, Board Certified Diplomate, Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner–Clinical, and Certified Neuropsychotherapist, I integrate trauma-informed and evidence-based modalities tailored to your unique healing process.

Those adaptations may have been protective once. Together, we work to understand whether they are still serving you now.

My work with trauma has developed across more than two decades in social work and behavioral health.

Before entering private practice, I worked in child protective services conducting forensic investigations involving child abuse, neglect, and exploitation. I worked alongside law enforcement, medical professionals, schools, advocacy centers, prosecutors, and courts, and developed expertise in trauma-informed interviewing and multidisciplinary responses to complex trauma.

I later worked in military behavioral health, providing psychotherapy to active-duty service members and their families and treating conditions including PTSD, depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorders.

I also served as a Family Advocacy Treatment Manager working with military families affected by partner, spousal, and child maltreatment. This work involved high-risk families, domestic violence prevention, child abuse prevention, longitudinal clinical monitoring, and trauma-informed family treatment.

My trauma work expanded into community disaster response when I served as Grant Program Director and Lead Psychotherapist for a state-funded trauma recovery initiative following the Sutherland Springs mass shooting. I provided psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups affected by mass violence and worked with first responders, educators, faith leaders, and community organizations to support long-term recovery and resilience.

Today, trauma remains a significant part of my private-practice work.

I have worked with people whose trauma comes from childhood, relationships, sexual violence, military service, first-responder experiences, medical experiences, family systems, community violence, and other life-altering events.

That breadth of experience matters because trauma looks different in every person and much is learned through experience.

You do not have to repeatedly tell the story of what happened in order to heal.

Trauma can create powerful beliefs such as: "It was my fault." "I should have known.", "I can't trust anyone.", "I have to stay in control.", "If I let my guard down, something bad will happen.", "I am permanently damaged."

Trauma-focused therapy can help you examine these beliefs and develop a more accurate and compassionate understanding of yourself and what happened.

Trauma therapy may involve processing memories, but it also involves understanding what those experiences taught your brain and body about safety, trust, control, connection, and yourself.

• Intersecting Experiences

Trauma can intersect with nearly every area of your daily life. For many people, unaddressed trauma subtly shapes intimate partnerships, parenting dynamics, sexuality, career focus, friendships, identity, and the fundamental relationship with your own body.

For members of the military and first-responder communities, trauma is frequently complicated by occupational culture, repeated exposure to crisis, acute responsibility for others, and the implicit pressure to simply keep functioning.

For LGBTQIA+ clients, trauma may intersect with minority stress, rejection, discrimination, religious trauma, family dynamics, or the experience of having to remain vigilant in environments that do not feel safe.

For people in ENM, polyamorous, or other relationship structures, historical trauma can also influence attachment, jealousy, boundaries, abandonment fears, and responses to relational uncertainty.

These intersections matter.

Your treatment should account for the whole person—not simply a diagnosis.

• RELATIONAL CARE

I believe the therapeutic relationship is part of the treatment.

You should not have to perform wellness in therapy.

You should not have to convince me that what happened to you was serious enough to matter.

And you should not have to be "fixed" before you are worthy of compassion.

My role is to provide a space that is genuine, respectful, collaborative, and non-judgmental while also challenging you when doing so can help you move toward the life you want.

We will work together to understand your patterns, identify what is no longer working, strengthen the resources you already possess, and develop new ways of responding.

Sometimes trauma therapy requires moving slowly.

Sometimes it requires being direct.

Sometimes healing means processing what happened.

Sometimes it means learning how to sleep, set a boundary, tolerate an emotion, trust yourself, or feel safe in your own body again.

There is no single definition of recovery.

Find a supportive, grounded space to navigate your recovery. Reach out today to discuss individual trauma therapy in Texas.