Therapy for Childhood Trauma and Emotional Neglect in Texas

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You were the strong one. The responsible one. The one who didn’t need much.

But now that you’re older, the weight of what you carried is catching up. I help women process the impact of emotionally unavailable, unsafe, or neglectful caregivers — so they can stop surviving and start healing.

What It Feels Like

You might be carrying childhood trauma if:

  • You were the caretaker or peacemaker in your family

  • You feel guilt or shame for having needs

  • You struggle to express anger or advocate for yourself

  • You feel numb, emotionally shut down, or disconnected from your body

  • You seek validation from emotionally unavailable people

  • You logically “get” your past but still feel stuck

Emotional neglect doesn’t always leave visible scars — but it affects how you love, trust, and relate to yourself. Therapy helps you grieve what you didn’t get and rebuild what was never modeled for you.

How I Help

What therapy looks like for emotional neglect and childhood trauma:

  • We go at your pace — no pressure to tell your whole story before you’re ready

  • We focus on how your early relationships shaped your sense of safety and self

  • We explore the protective strategies you had to develop — and how they show up today

  • We make space for grief, anger, and emotional needs that were never allowed

  • I help you feel with, not just talk about, the parts of you that never got to be held

You don’t need to be “better” to be worthy. You just need a space to be real — and someone to walk with you through it.

Want to hear more? In the video below, I share how I work with childhood trauma and why it’s never “too late” to begin healing.

Why Work With Me

A woman with glasses, a septum piercing, and tattoos is smiling and sitting on a tan leather chair in a living room with a wooden side table and a houseplant, near a window with bright sunlight.

This isn’t worksheet therapy.

I use a psychodynamic, relational approach grounded in AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). That means we don’t just talk about your feelings — we slow down and actually feel them together, in real time.

I pay close attention to how you show up emotionally, relationally, and even in the therapy room itself. We work with the parts of you that have learned to shut down, smile through the pain, or over-function to stay safe. If you’ve had therapy before that felt too polite, too vague, or too shallow… you’re in the right place.

 FAQs

  • Emotional neglect is when your caregivers didn’t meet your emotional needs — even if they provided food or shelter. It often leaves invisible wounds, like shame, numbness, or feeling “too much” for other people.

  • Yes. Therapy helps you process what happened (or didn’t happen), understand how it still affects your relationships and self-worth, and begin to feel safe with your own emotions.

  • Common signs include emotional shutdown, chronic people-pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, low self-worth, or feeling disconnected from your body. You may also struggle with intimacy or conflict in relationships.

  • Not at all. You don’t need a label or a traumatic “event” to deserve healing. If something still hurts, feels stuck, or keeps repeating — that’s enough to start.

FREE CONSULATIONS

Ready to start healing?

I offer childhood trauma therapy for women across Texas.


You’re not broken. You adapted to what you lived through. Let’s give that younger part of you something she never had: safety, space, and someone who really sees her.

 “When you are not fed love on a silver spoon you learn to lick it off knives.”

— Lauren Eden