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Trauma, Grief and Loss
Therapy in Houston & online throughout Texas
Bad experiences don’t have to define you, nor do they have to determine your future…
Traumatic experiences can derail people in unique ways. This includes nightmares, feeling jumpy or paranoid that the experience will happen again, rigid boundaries, or feeling like you are watching yourself live life on the outside looking in.
Grief and loss are times full of confusion, physical tiredness, emotional pain, feeling “othered” while other people live their normal lives, and feeling lost as you adjust to a new life without your loved one.
Welcome to a safe place to unload and find direction in confusing times.
Traumatic experiences require you look inward, assess and heal. You will be able to identify what exactly is happening in your body and mind, understand why, and then discover how you can best move forward.
You will appreciate what the signals mean in your body that make you feel “othered”, why they show up, and be able to resolve them with specific actions. You will leave with practical tools to mentally and physically create safety. At the end of our sessions you will be able to make meaning of the experiences that were once haunting.
When we are grieving, it takes a lot of mental, emotional and physical UNSEEN labor in order to adjust to a new life without our loved ones. In our sessions you will be able to identify what is happening in your body and mind, why and a roadmap for the future.
Grieving is uncomfortable, but a necessary process for you to make the adjustments you need to live without your loved one. You will find comfort and validation in our sessions while also learning practical tools you need to face the unique challenges that occur while grieving.
Equipped for a lifetime
Trauma, Grief and Loss Counseling
Appreciate the story
The first step to recovery is validation. Your body is telling you a story that will make sense to you. We will learn what that story is together.
Learn practical tools
The in-between steps in recovery involve psychoeducation, practical coping skills, and understanding how our past affects our present.
Create a good future
The last step in recovery is making meaning of the bad experience as it relates to your goals. Bad things happen to everyone, but we get to choose the role it plays in our lives.
Questions about counseling for trauma, grief and loss…
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Absolutely. Trauma has to do with the threat to life internally and externally. There are symptoms that look and feel different than every day stressors. They also have a different intensity than regular stressors.
Trauma counseling focuses on equipping you to process what happened and make meaning of it so it no longer impedes normal living. -
100% yes. There is a particular process happening in order for our brains to make adjustments to significant loss. The healing process looks like understanding where you are, where you’re going and what you’re responsibilities are in those stages.
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No. I will make sure we go at a pace that is comfortable and healing for you. Talking about something uncomfortable will be uncomfortable, but there will be a structure in place to ensure it will not be an intense time.
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Absolutely. I am trained in family trauma interventions and believe communal grief is beneficial to the healing process. I have also successfully navigated couples out of trauma. Bring your family and/or your partner and we can heal together.