Meet Rebecca Flores, LPC
Trauma and Attachment Therapist in San Antonio
For women who know their story but still feel it coloring their world
This Work Found Me Early
I've always been drawn to what lives underneath.
Not just the presenting story, but the one beneath it. The moment someone says one thing and something else moves underneath it.
That orientation is what brought me to trauma and attachment work, and it's what keeps me here. I believe that most of what brings someone to therapy isn't a symptom to be managed. It's a survival system that worked once and is now costing too much.
My job is to help you see it clearly, understand it without blaming yourself, and find out what changes when it’s no longer running your life from underneath.
I work at the level where things actually change: in the nervous system, the body, the relational patterns formed before you had language for them.
That’s where I work.
Women Who Find Their Way Here
You know what happened, your patterns, and where it all started. And something still hasn't moved.
And yet, you’re still moving, still managing, still being who others need you to be.
Something in you knows the weight of it is different now.
When you've carried things quietly for a long time, that thought arriving can feel like a threshold.
You’ve already done a lot of thinking. You’re not coming in confused about what’s happened or what’s here. But some questions keep surfacing:
Why does this still live in my body?
Why does grief still find me in ordinary moments?
Why does the betrayal still make me wait for people to prove they mean it, and wonder if they ever really will?
Why does not enough still show up when every part of me can see that it isn’t true?
You’re here because something in you knows this needs to change.
You read carefully before you reach out. You look for tone. You scan for whether someone actually understands the territory or is just familiar with the vocabulary.
Maybe I won’t have to convince this person that what I’ve been through actually matters.
That’s the feeling you’re looking for. And when it’s there, something eases before you’ve said a word.
You’ve adapted to what happened. You’ve gotten good at it. But adaptation and integration aren’t the same thing, and somewhere in you, you know that.
You’re ready to look at this now.
How We Get There
I don't work from one single method. I work from what you actually need, and I've trained deeply in approaches that work at the level where things genuinely shift.
How we work depends on how the pain is held: sometimes in memory, sometimes in the body, sometimes in grief, and sometimes in the relationship patterns that formed around survival.
EMDR: Traumatic memory doesn't store the way ordinary memory does. It stays live, close to the surface, easy to activate. EMDR works at the level where it's actually held, helping the nervous system complete what it couldn't at the time. Not just understanding what happened. Moving it.
Brainspotting: Some of what you're carrying doesn't have a narrative. It lives in the body at a level beneath the story you already know how to tell. Brainspotting locates what's held there and processes it precisely, without requiring you to put it into words first.
Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapy: Not what you've seen on stage. Clinical hypnotherapy accesses the parts of the mind that are harder to reach in a standard therapy session. It can be helpful for grief, shame, trauma, anxiety, and old relationship patterns that keep reasserting themselves.
Attachment-Based and Psychodynamic approaches: Because the relationship patterns you carry started somewhere, and because the therapy space also becomes part of how healing happens.
Parts Work: A way of working, influenced by IFS and ego states, with the parts of you that are in conflict with each other. The part that wants closeness and the part that pulls back. The part that knows you're doing too much and the part that can't put it down.
Somatic Approaches: The body holds what the mind has tried to move past. Somatic work brings the body into the room rather than working around it.
The Plot Starts to Change
It doesn’t usually happen all at once. But somewhere along the way, you realize the plot has changed.
You notice you said no to something and the guilt didn’t follow it the way it used to. You catch yourself in a pattern mid-sentence and something in you finds it interesting rather than shameful. You say something you’ve been quietly holding and you’re okay if someone’s upset with you.
You’re not scanning every exchange for what you might have missed. You’re not replaying the conversation afterward looking for where you went wrong. You’re more confident when there’s conflict.
Your body starts to feel less like something to manage and more like somewhere you actually live. There’s more freedom in your decisions and less second-guessing and guilt.
What happened doesn’t disappear. But it stops running the present tense.
A Little More About Me
I love to write. I paint and draw, though not particularly well, and love it anyway. Art and poetry are the languages I return to.
I have a soft spot for antiques, thrifting, architecture, and being outside in almost any form.
My favorite instruments are the cello and the drums, which probably says something.
My favorite holiday is Christmas, my favorite animal is every single one of them, and my pets run this practice.
Meet the Team
Office Manager: Sophie
Marketing: Mowgli
Receptionist: Livy
Billing: Oliver
Administrative Assistant: Lucky
My Training & Credentials
I've worked in inpatient psychiatry, a military trauma program for active duty service members and veterans, and private practice for 14 years. The training below reflects what I've found to be true: that this work requires more than one way in, and I genuinely love learning.
Master of Arts in Counseling, 2012
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in: Texas #79280, Washington #MHC.LH.70063917, and Oregon #C5532
EMDR Certified Therapist, EMDRIA
Clinical Hypnotherapist, National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists
Certified Prolonged Exposure Therapist for PTSD, University of Pennsylvania Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA)
Advanced Training & Approach
Attachment-Focused EMDR
Brainspotting Phase I & II
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD
Polyvagal-Informed
Sand Tray Therapy
Ego States & Parts Work
Integrated EMDR + IFS-Informed
Professional Memberships
American Counseling Association
FAQ : Therapy with Rebecca Flores, LPC
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Not at all. We start where you are. Some women come in ready to go straight to the hard thing. Others need time to find their footing first.
We move at the pace your nervous system can actually use.
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Our first session is focused on understanding what brought you in, what you're carrying, and what you want to work toward. That gives us a foundation to work from.
Sessions have structure and intention though they don’t necessarily follow a script.
Life keeps happening, and the work stays responsive to that. Some sessions focus on processing, going deeper into the body and nervous system using EMDR, Brainspotting, or hypnotherapy.
Many sessions are a combination of both. You won't feel like you're being run through a protocol. It's responsive to you.
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Yes, many of my clients are therapists, healthcare providers, and women who spend their days holding space for everyone else.
You won't need to manage my reactions or translate your experience into simpler terms. Your clinical mind is welcome here, and so are the parts of you that have nothing to do with it.
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Which one we use, and when, depends on what you're carrying and what your nervous system is ready for. Each one reaches something slightly different.
EMDR works well for traumatic memories and events.
Brainspotting is particularly helpful for what's held somatically, grief, guilt, shame, trauma, anxiety, the things that sometimes don’t have a clear narrative.
Hypnotherapy reaches the parts of the mind that are harder to access when fully alert, including the unconscious, and works to calm the emotional brain and nervous system.
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Yes, clients come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, faith backgrounds or none, and sexual orientations and gender identities.
I’m a spiritual person, though this is not a Christian counseling or faith-based practice. You don’t have to share my beliefs, or any beliefs at all, to work with me.
I’d love to hear from you.
In person and online therapy in San Antonio, and online across Texas, Oregon, and Washington.
What Brings Women Here
How We Work Together
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EMDR
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Brainspotting
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Hypnotherapy
