Trauma
Trauma Therapy in Houston, Texas
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 in-network psychologists can help you. In person in Houston and online across Texas.
Reading For Deeper Thinking
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Parul Sehgal. The Case Against The Trauma Plot. The New Yorker, 2021. Read here.
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Susan J. Brison. How Philosophy Attempts—and Often Fails–To Grapple With Experiences of Trauma. LitHub, 2023. Read here.
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Ross Reed. Are We Really in The Midst Of a Trauma Pandemic? The Philosophical Salon, 2025. Read here.
From Our Journal
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What Truly Happens In Therapy? Read Here.
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How Much of You Is Just What You've Repeated? Read Here.
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The Glory Of Psychiatry and The Overpathologization of Emotions. Read Here.
What Getting Better Feels Like
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Fewer sudden alarms inside ordinary moments
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More choice before reacting
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Trust that grows at a safe pace
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Memories that hurt less and rule less
It May Also Feel Like...
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Nightmares or light sleep
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Hypervigilance or numbness
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Intrusive images or thoughts
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Avoiding places or people
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Gaps in memory
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Body pain without a clear cause
Therapists Who Treat Trauma
Adriane Barroso, Ph.D.
Dr. Adriane works with adults facing grief, trauma, and crisis. Her approach is psychoanalytic and non-pathologizing. She offers online therapy in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Currently at Capacity
Nayda Lamberty, Psy.D.
Dr. Nayda works with adults, young adults, and couples, in English and Spanish, providing up-to-date, evidence-based care. Her work focuses on trauma, family dynamics, and relationship issues.
Currently at Capacity
Kristen Wheeler, Psy.D.
Dr. Kristen sees adults in person and online, in English. She works with trauma, crisis, substance use recovery, and specializes in military veterans, first responders, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Accepting New Patients
Rebecca Boren, Ph.D.
Dr. Rebecca offers individual therapy to adults dealing with anxiety and overthinking, stress and burnout, health issues, depression, and grief. She offers online sessions, in English.
Currently at Capacity
Lorena Davis, M.S., M.Ed.
Lorena provides in-person and online therapy for children, teenagers, and adults. She works with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, and life transitions, in English and Spanish.
Currently at Capacity
Shirin Rahgozar, Ph.D.
Dr. Shirin offers online and in person therapy for teenagers and adults dealing with anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, PTSD, and cultural adjustment. She speaks English and Farsi.
Accepting New Patients
Micah Rees, Ph.D.
Dr. Micah provides online therapy for adults, in English. His work focuses on identity and meaning, trauma, grief, spiritual or existential concerns, life transitions, anxiety, and depression.
Currently at Capacity
Tasneem Rodriguez, Psy.D.
Dr. Tas works with adults and young adults experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and identity concerns. She supports people of color and first generation individuals. Online sessions, in English.
Currently at Capacity