trauma & complex trauma therapy in austin, tx

• Complex trauma and complex PTSD

• Childhood and developmental trauma

• Religious trauma

• Intergenerational trauma

• Secondary trauma — being impacted by someone else's traumatic experiences

• Trauma that shows up in relationships, attachment, or difficulty trusting people

• Trauma connected to identity, culture, or community experiences

• The long-term impact of growing up in an unpredictable or unsafe environment

Trauma doesn't always announce itself. It can live quietly in how much you trust people, how your body responds when something feels threatening, how hard it is to feel safe even when you're technically out of danger. It can look like anxiety, or depression, or a persistent sense that you have to stay ready — braced for something that already happened a long time ago. Some people arrive knowing their history is part of what they're carrying. Others are only beginning to make that connection.

What makes trauma complex is rarely the single event — it's the accumulation. The environment that required you to adapt in ways that made sense then and create difficulty now. The relationships that were supposed to be safe and weren't. The messages you absorbed about yourself, your worth, and what you deserved that got in early enough to feel like truth. Secondary trauma belongs here too — the particular weight of loving or caring for someone whose trauma has become part of your own nervous system, whether or not anyone has named it that way.

In our work together, we move at a pace that supports your nervous system rather than pushing for insight before you're ready. We pay attention to how the past is living in the present — not just as memory, but as pattern. How it shaped the way you relate to people, the way you respond to threat, the way you understand yourself. That kind of work takes time, and it takes trust. But it also tends to be the work that changes things at the deepest level.

I offer trauma therapy in Austin, Texas and via telehealth across the state for adults who are ready to make sense of what they've been carrying — and find out what's possible when they're not carrying it alone.