Complex Trauma Therapy in Plano, TX

Is This You?

Maybe there wasn't one single event you can point to, just years of feeling unsafe, unseen, or responsible for things a child never should have carried. Maybe you function well on the outside, but underneath, you're hypervigilant, quick to assume the worst, or disconnected from your own emotions in ways you can't fully explain. Maybe relationships feel hard to trust, even when you want to. Complex trauma often doesn't look like what people expect trauma to look like, and that's exactly why it goes unnamed for so long.

What This Often Looks Like

• Difficulty trusting others, even people who've given you no reason not to
• A harsh inner critic or persistent sense of shame
• Emotional numbness, or feeling flooded by emotion with little in between
• Trouble feeling safe in your own body
• Patterns in relationships that repeat, even when you try hard not to repeat them

These patterns usually formed for a reason, often as a way to survive relationships or environments that weren't safe. They made sense then, even if they're not serving you now.

How We Work Together

Complex trauma happened in relationship, so a lot of the healing happens there too. My approach is relational psychodynamic and attachment based. I bring myself fully into the room, my honest reactions, my real presence, because how you experience me often mirrors how you experience other relationships in your life. That takes trust, what I call relational equity, and we build it deliberately, so the relationship itself becomes steady enough to hold the hard parts of your story. We don't avoid what's difficult. We go toward it, together, at a pace that respects what your nervous system can hold.

What You Can Expect

This work is real and sometimes slow, and change is genuinely possible. Many clients find they begin to:

• Feel calmer and less on guard in everyday life
• Trust themselves and others more
• Understand their patterns instead of just being frustrated by them
• Feel more present in their bodies and relationships

Getting Started

• Step 1: Free Consultation. A low pressure first conversation to see if this feels like a fit.
• Step 2: First Session. We go slow, building trust before diving into anything difficult.
• Step 3: Ongoing Work. Steady, relational work that goes toward the hard parts at a pace your nervous system can hold.

Taking the First Step

You've likely been carrying this a long time. You don't have to carry it alone anymore. Let's start with a free 15 minute consultation.