PTSD and Trauma Therapy for Deep Thinkers In San Antonio
For Reflective Feelers Who Carry More Than Most
What looks like struggle is often adaptation, brilliant ways of surviving what life has asked of you.
I specialize in attachment-focused trauma and PTSD therapy for those who think and feel deeply, carrying the invisible weight of old wounds behind a calm exterior.
Together, we’ll work through the past with curiosity, creativity, and nervous system-informed therapy, so you can stop living in constant stress, anxiety, or shutdown, and start begin moving through life with connection and calm.
Healing Begins with Seeing Your Strength
Your strength and resilience are powerful, but you deserve to live without the constant pull of the past, that low vibration of post-traumatic stress your nervous system still tracks even on calm days.
From the outside, no one would guess the battle you fight every single day. You’re successful. Capable. The one who’s always holding it down.
But beneath that strength is the quiet hypervigilance that keeps you scanning for what might go wrong.
Sometimes you wonder if you’re only pretending, waiting for the moment someone finally sees beneath the surface. It’s not a lack of willpower; it’s the way your body remembers.
That’s what complex trauma does, it rewires safety itself.
The truth is, you’re tired. You’re tired from managing your own nervous system regulation alone for years, keeping peace, staying composed, and holding everything together.
You’re bone-deep tired.
Not just physically. Emotionally. Soulfully. Mentally.
You’re ready for the kind of peace and relief that comes from releasing the weight you’ve been carrying. You’re tired of pretending you have it all together when inside, you feel vulnerable, overwhelmed, on edge, always scanning for the next wave of anxiety that steals your light and keeps you awake at night.
That constant scanning is part of body memory, the way the nervous system keeps replaying what it never got to finish.
Your mind rarely slows. It loops, replays, forecasts, catastrophizes. Sometimes those spirals are emotional flashbacks, the body remembering without images or words, just feeling. Slowing down or rest feels like opening a door you don’t trust yet.
It often feels like others don’t understand how much you’re holding, how hard you’re trying, or how alone you feel inside. And, that creative spark you once had is dimmed beneath the pressure but it’s not gone.
With trauma processing and somatic approaches that honor the body as much as the mind, we help that energy return as the weight begins to lift.
That’s the kind of shift we can work toward, together.
I help emotionally intelligent women heal through trauma and PTSD therapy that’s compassionate, attachment-based, and grounded in research-backed approaches.
Trauma can touch every part of life, from how you love to how you see yourself. Many women also explore Attachment or Anxiety as part of this healing process.
When Trauma Hides Behind Compassion
You Feel More, Because You Notice More
At work. In relationships. In parenting.
Being attuned means you experience the world on a sensitive frequency. You notice what others miss, tone, energy, the undercurrent in silence, and it lands deep within your body.
It’s not that you’re fragile; your system was built to register subtleties others rush past. It’s both your strength and a heavy weight, the reason you connect so deeply and tire so easily.
Your empathy and care are your magic, gifts that let you feel, connect, and love in ways that make the world feel more human, and the very traits that that have always made you different in the best ways.
Trauma may have dulled your inner glow, but this work helps you care deeply without being consumed by it
Many people find that trauma also affects their sense of connection and safety in relationships, You can read more about that on my Attachment Therapy page.
"Just where you are, that's the place to start."
Pema Chödrön
Parenting with Trauma: Healing the Past to Nurture the Present
Parenting is tough. And if you’ve lived through trauma while holding a family together, it can feel like carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
You:
Worry your kids can sense your struggles.
Get overstimulated by the noise, the mess, the constant need for you.
Parent from a place of fear, desperate not to repeat the patterns you promised yourself you’d end.
Feel like you’re failing, even though you’re doing more than enough.
Collapse into bed at night, exhausted, and still wonder if you should’ve done more.
Love your kids fiercely, yet fear the past might find its way into their lives.
You want to be the parent who feels present, calm, and able to enjoy the moments of parenting that matter without fearing what might go wrong. That’s what healing makes possible, less guilt, more connection, and the ability to respond instead of react.
➳ Processing a difficult delivery? See how I approach birth & labor trauma.
Navigating Relationships: When Trauma Colors Your Emotional World
I see you. You’re not what you fear. You're more than what the past taught you to be.
You love deeply. You give generously, even when a part of you doubts whether that love will be returned. Trauma can make closeness feel both comforting and unsafe.
You might:
Analyze texts, tone, and body language, always scanning for what’s changed.
Avoid conflict and confrontation, swallowing your own needs to keep the peace.
Find yourself in one-sided relationships, giving endlessly, rarely feeling met.
Feel emotionally wrung out from caring for everyone else.
Struggle with trust, clinging tightly or retreating before anyone can hurt you.
You want connection, but part of you wonders what would happen if someone saw all of you.
Past pain taught you to protect yourself by shrinking, silencing, and overcompensating. But protection isn’t who you are, it’s what you learned to do. The real you is still there: loving, perceptive, and ready for relationships that feel mutual and safe.
When Trauma Shapes How You Work: Finding Balance Beyond Burnout
Work isn’t just work; it’s an emotional mountain you climb every day. You’re the one who takes on more because disappointing people feels unbearable, the one who sometimes slides into perfectionism and over-giving, even though you know how draining it is. And beneath it all, imposter syndrome whispers: What if I’m not really good enough?
You walk on eggshells, sidestep conflict, and say yes when you really don’t want to. Your mind replays moments and conversations on a loop, scanning for what you missed or said or did wrong. By the time you leave work, you’re emotionally spent, and then you still have to show up at home as if you’re okay.
This isn’t just stress. This is trauma and your nervous system operating in the only way it know how to. And, your body’s and mind are ready for a new way forward.
Trauma Therapy That Sees You: Healing Your Mind & Body
Your nervous system isn’t beyond repair. It’s tired and anxious from years of overprotecting you and keeping you safe. Those old survival patterns are outdated now and no longer truly help you.
Imagine a day where you don’t have to fake calm or mask exhaustion. A day wen your body feels at ease, your mind stops rehearsing mistakes and scanning for danger.
This isn’t wishful thinking. It’s what happens through nervous system healing, when therapy goes deep enough to include your body, your story, and your nervous-system. And, it’s possible for you.
Trauma & Attachment Therapies That Support Lasting Healing
This journey work is about understanding what happened and helping your mind and body release old patterns and create more ease and honesty in how you show up with yourself and others.
I’m here to guide you through this with a nurturing, innovative, and flexible approach that’s as unique as you are. It’s not just about managing - it’s about living.
Science-Backed, Heart-Centered Trauma & Attachment Therapy
I use research-backed attachment and trauma therapies such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Attachment-Based Therapy, Brainspotting Therapy (BSP), and Trauma-Informed Clinical Hypnosis.
➳ EMDR helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories so you can feel less triggered, less reactive, and more at peace in your body and mind.
➳ Brainspotting works directly with the body–brain connection, accessing and processing trauma held in the body through focused eye positioning. It reaches the emotional material words alone can’t always access.
➳ Trauma-Informed Clinical Hypnosis engages the subconscious mind to calm your nervous system, reduce anxiety, and support deeper trauma integration.
I also integrate other trauma-focused approaches to support healing from anxiety, grief, complex trauma, childhood wounds, attachment trauma, medical trauma and reproductive trauma, including birth & labor trauma, as well as religious and spiritual trauma, and sexual trauma.
What Trauma Healing Can Mean for Deep Thinkers and Sensitive Feelers
Healing doesn’t erase the past; it changes your relationship with it. That’s what trauma integration is about. You can begin to live in a way that feels less like managing and more like being.
Because someone who feels and thinks deeply while living with trauma, doesn’t mean you’re destined to a life of anxiety, exhaustion, or people pleasing. It means you’ve been using your intelligence and sensitivity to survive. Therapy helps you use them to live.
Your care, empathy, and insight aren’t problems to solve, they’re strengths, now freed from the fear and self-doubt that’s been riding alongside them for so long.
What happened to you matters but it doesn’t get the final say. You’re allowed to heal and live a life that feels like yours again.
With the right trauma therapy and support, you can:
Quiet the anxiety and overthinking that keeps you fearing something bad is going to happen.
Release guilt, shame, and self-blame.
Heal from the past instead of reliving it.
Give grief a place to rest.
Set boundaries without second-guessing yourself.
Feel good enough without proving or perfecting.
Drop the belief you have to “fix” everything.
Experience relationships where you can be seen, heard, and supported.
Show up as the parent you want to be without the burden of the past.
Healing doesn’t mean becoming someone new; it means becoming more of yourself with room to breathe again.
Without fear. Without shame. Finally free to live your life, not your history.
FAQ: Trauma & PTSD Therapy
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If you experience flashbacks, anxiety, trouble sleeping, emotional numbness, or feel on edge often, trauma may be affecting you more than you realize.
If your past is impacting your work, relationships, or daily life, therapy can help.
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I specialize in EMDR for trauma which is a brain-based, research-backed therapy, to help you process trauma and regain a sense of control. I also integrate other techniques and therapies for trauma and PTSD, like Brainspotting, Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapy, Somatic-Based Therapy, and Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy.
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Yes! I offer remote trauma therapy and counseling for deep thinkers and feelers online and in person in San Antonio and remotely across Texas, so you can heal from the comfort of your home.
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I offer trauma and attachment therapy for clients in Downtown San Antonio, Alamo Heights, Castle Hills, Shavano Park, Monte Vista, Stone Oak, Bulverde, Spring Branch, Boerne, and beyond.
If you’re anywhere in Texas, I can support you through online therapy.
You don’t have to wait another year, month, or day.
Let’s see if we’re the right fit and start trauma and PTSD therapy in San Antonio.
Schedule your complimentary phone consultation with me today.
➳ Prefer meeting online? I work with clients across Texas.
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