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ONLINE THERAPY FOR COMPLEX TRAUMA IN TEXAS

Trauma that’s occurred in your past will stay with you- but it doesn't have to imprison you. Therapy can help.

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Something in the past is holding you back

You may be all too acutely aware of the trauma that lives in your past, or you may only recognize it by the ways you’re affected now. You may look back on your childhood or that specific time in your life with fear, anger, guilt, or disgust. Or, quite honestly, it might just cause you to feel numb. You feel disconnected from the person you know yourself to be, and can’t seem to reconcile these contrasting parts of who you are and the story of the life you’ve led so far. 

When you feel torn in half from complex trauma that caused the divide between who you are and how you want to be, trauma therapy with me can help.

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Reconnect to your purpose and sense of power

In trauma therapy, we can borrow from attachment theory and parts work to discover a new way of understanding and relating to your internal system. I can help you find empathy for your internal experiences or parts that are connected to these traumatic segments of your life story. By healing the effects of complex trauma within you, your relationships will begin to also see meaningful change. 

If you know that there’s something holding you back from reaching your potential or there’s some pain that’s stifling your possibility and you’re ready to overcome it with me, complex trauma therapy is a unique experience curated for you. We can do this together.

Benefits of Complex Trauma Therapy

  • Become better connected to your authentic self

  • Learn to grieve and accept your limits of control

  • Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

  • Feel safe in your own thoughts and feelings

  • Develop skills to increase emotional regulation

  • Strengthened tool kit to cope with triggers

  • Decreased physical tension and an increased ability to self-soothe (decreased soreness, increased ability to enjoy stillness)

  • Acquire new language and framework of understanding old hurts

  • Be more compassionate with yourself

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Why you might need complex trauma therapy

There are so many therapy approaches that are marketed toward healing trauma and helping you overcome it as you experience it. Crisis counseling at the moment of the trauma can be powerful in preventing the insidious impact of trauma that you can’t resolve but what if you didn’t get that? All these promises from a myriad of therapists about CBT, yoga, or EMDR are great but what do they really mean when they’ve never worked before?

If you’ve been living with PTSD or childhood trauma, you’ve heard it all. And here I am, saying it all again- so why should you listen to me? 

Complex trauma therapy at Mending Experiences isn’t about curing what you’ve been through. There is no cure because you do not need one. You are not broken, flawed, or otherwise unworthy of living a life undeterred by trauma. Instead of focusing on fixing the pain in your life, complex trauma therapy with me will reach in and boldly confront your experiences and build the path to integrating them into your life story. Our work together will help you find acceptance and empowerment. We will focus on developing coping skills you can use in moments when you recognize that old trauma is ruling your reactions instead of your present-day self. Complex trauma therapy is the right therapeutic approach for anyone looking to unscramble the pieces and parts of your personal puzzle and begin to assemble them authentically.

Is this what you’re looking for?

  • The insidious impact of trauma

    Trauma isn’t just the huge moments we’ve all come to view it as. Trauma can be years of an experience that became your normal. It can happen as a result of a relationship, an experience, a living situation, or a global event. While responding to this trauma through immediate support can be impactful, it may not prevent the indelible changes to your inner world that trauma often causes.

    The impact of complex trauma can cause deep distress in you. You may find yourself feeling frustrated or stagnant in the uncertainty of your own mental state. There may be no clarity for why you’re feeling this way, or what’s stopping you from just “getting through this” or “getting over that”.

    You might be feeling like you’re failing, incompetent or just not good enough when really, trauma is chaining you to your past.

  • How complex trauma therapy is different from other trauma techniques

    We’re not trying to cure you, fix you, or save you from yourself. Complex trauma isn’t something that you can will out of existence. Instead, we will work together to help you have the hard conversations with yourself about what’s going on in the moments you get stuck so you can find new ways to break old patterns.

    The goal in complex trauma therapy is to look inward and increase your awareness of the unconscious processes that may be limiting your own power. You won’t be focused on separating yourself from the pain or emotional intensity of your trauma. Complex trauma therapy will focus on finding patterns, stopping re-traumatization and creating motion where you currently feel stuck.

Are you ready to be free?

You might not even realize that you’re stuck. Or, like many others, you may know you’re trapped in a mental space that doesn’t serve you. You have the power to reconnect with yourself and find the words you need to move forward. Trauma that’s occurred in your past will stay with you- but it doesn't have to imprison you. We’re going to work together to rewrite your relationship with your past self, and respond with compassion to the emotional experiences you have because of that relationship. 

This is unlike anything you’ve done before. Step by step, you’ll move through stages as you peel back the barriers and access the unexplored landscape of your potential. You have the power you need to face your pain head on and together we will bring the intention and the knowledge you crave to overcome it.

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