In-person therapy in Houston, online in Texas • In-network with BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, UHC, Oscar • Therapy in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi • Immediate Openings
Trauma
PhD-Level Trauma Therapy in Houston, TX
Trauma can live in the body as tension, startle, or shutdown. It can show up in thoughts, dreams, and relationships. We learn how it began, what keeps it active, and how it shapes your days.
Our clinical team of doctoral level, in-network psychologists in Houston provides trauma therapy, including EMDR sessions, in person and online across Texas.
Our psychologists come from diverse cultural backgrounds, speak multiple languages, and have lived and worked in multiple countries and settings. We are attentive to how culture, migration, race, gender, identity, and social position shape a person's life and inner world.
Our clinical approach is depth-oriented. We are interested in what sustains the symptoms, not only what they look like on the surface. Why does this keep happening, and where did it come from? These questions take time and require a different quality of attention, a willingness to stay with what is uncomfortable, and a clinician who can hold complexity over the long term.
Where clinically indicated, our psychologists also draw on structured, evidence-based approaches, including manualized treatments for trauma, OCD, and other conditions where protocol-driven work has a strong indication. Depth and structure are not opposites. For many patients, both are part of the same course of treatment.
Our clinical team of doctoral-level psychologists provides in-person therapy in Houston and telehealth across Texas. A number of them are also PsyPact-authorized to see patients in other states.
We are in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, United Healthcare/Optum, and Oscar. We verify your benefits before your first appointment. Our clinical director reviews each inquiry personally and recommends a clinician whose background and approach fit what you are bringing in.
What Changes Over Time
Better recognition and management of physical and emotional responses
Greater capacity to be present in relationships without bracing for what might go wrong
Less energy spent on vigilance, avoidance, or keeping certain things at a distance
A different relationship to the body, one that feels safer to inhabit
Gradual return of a sense of agency over life and choices
PhD-Level Training in Trauma
Trauma treatment requires precision. The wrong approach at the wrong time can deepen avoidance rather than resolve it. Doctoral-level training matters most when trauma is complex or developmental, rooted in early experience rather than a single event, when trauma co-occurs with dissociation, personality difficulties, or significant functional impairment, when prior treatment has not held, or when careful sequencing of stabilization, processing, and integration requires advanced clinical judgment.
From Our Journal
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