Trauma-Informed Holistic Psychotherapy for Women in Texas

EMDR is a structured, evidence-based therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing memories that have become "stuck" — memories that continue to generate fear, shame, or overwhelm long after the original event. Through bilateral stimulation and careful preparation, EMDR supports the nervous system in completing what it could not finish at the time of the experience. It is particularly effective for trauma, PTSD, grief, and the residue of emotionally harmful relationships.

Particularly helpful for: trauma, PTSD, relational wounds, grief, phobias, and chronic shame.

IFS offers a compassionate map of the inner world. Rather than viewing difficult emotions or behaviors as problems to be eliminated, IFS understands them as parts of the self — each with its own history, its own protective purpose, and its own longing to be understood. Working with parts allows us to approach the most defended or painful places in ourselves with curiosity rather than judgment, and to restore access to the calm, grounded Self that was always there beneath the noise.

Particularly helpful for: self-criticism, inner conflict, people-pleasing, emotional dysregulation, and complex trauma.

The body keeps a record of everything we have lived through. Somatic approaches bring gentle, curious attention to physical sensation, posture, breath, and movement as doorways into the deeper layers of experience that words alone cannot reach. Grounded in current neuroscience — including polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of trauma — this work supports the rehabilitation of a nervous system that has been organized around threat, hypervigilance, or shutdown. Rather than bypassing the body to get to the "real" work, somatic awareness treats the body as an intelligent, trustworthy guide — one that often knows what the mind is still working to understand.

Particularly helpful for: dissociation, chronic stress, trauma held in the body, nervous system dysregulation, pain management, and difficulty identifying emotions.

ACT invites a different relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings — not fighting them, not being ruled by them, but learning to hold them with flexibility and move toward what matters most. Through mindfulness, values clarification, and committed action, ACT supports the development of psychological flexibility: the capacity to be present with discomfort without letting it determine the course of your life.

Particularly helpful for: anxiety, perfectionism, avoidance, life transitions, and values-based decision-making.

DBT offers a practical, skills-based framework for navigating emotional intensity, interpersonal difficulty, and the moments when everything feels like too much. I draw on DBT skills — particularly distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness — as tools to support stability and ground the deeper relational and trauma work we do together.

Particularly helpful for: emotional dysregulation, crisis management, relationship patterns, and building distress tolerance.

Drawing from yoga philosophy and mindful movement, this dimension of the work invites reconnection with the body as a place of safety, wisdom, and presence. This is not about physical fitness or flexibility — it is about learning to inhabit yourself more fully, to notice the difference between contraction and expansion, and to cultivate a felt sense of being at home in your own body.

Particularly helpful for: body disconnection, chronic stress, self-abandonment, and cultivating present-moment awareness.

Chronic trauma, relational stress, and unresolved pain — including the psychological dimensions of physical injury and sports injury rehabilitation — can leave the nervous system locked in patterns of protection long after the original threat has passed. Drawing from rehabilitation psychology, neuroscience, and somatic practice, this work addresses the mind-body relationship directly: helping the nervous system learn that safety is possible, that presence is survivable, and that the body can become a home rather than a source of alarm. This approach is particularly relevant for women navigating chronic pain, pain management challenges, recovery from physical injury, or the psychological aftermath of sports injury — where the nervous system's learned responses to threat and pain are as much a part of healing as the physical rehabilitation itself.

Particularly helpful for: chronic pain, pain management, sports injury rehabilitation psychology, nervous system dysregulation, somatic symptoms, and trauma held in the body.