Therapy for Relational Trauma & Nervous System Healing
Relational trauma, sometimes called complex trauma or CPTSD, often develops in long-term relationships where safety was inconsistent.
You flinch at a tone of voice. You shut down in conflict. You overthink every interaction.
It doesn’t look like a dramatic breakdown. Instead, it looks like scanning the room for safety. You’re saying “it’s fine” when your chest is tight and your throat is closing. You’re freezing when you’re overwhelmed, then hating yourself for it later.
You might not even call it trauma. You just know your reactions feel bigger than the moment, like you’re living through something old and invisible.
You’ve likely learned to cope by being hyper-independent, accommodating, or always staying in control, and it’s worked for you…sort of. But your body keeps telling you that something still isn’t right.
You’re not overreacting. You’re responding from a place that still hurts.
At Rooted Therapy, we understand that trauma isn’t just what happened; it’s what happened inside you as a result. It’s the survival patterns your nervous system developed to keep you safe. And those patterns are still running the show, even if you don’t want them to.
Whether you’ve experienced childhood trauma, emotional neglect, relational betrayal, or something you’ve never even named, your system remembers, and it’s tired.
This is where therapy meets the part of you that’s still on alert…
We offer a trauma-informed approach grounded in EMDR, IFS, somatic therapy, and real, relational connection, not just talking about the trauma, but gently working through it.
In therapy, you’ll learn to:
Recognize how trauma lives in your body and nervous system
Build internal safety and emotional regulation tools
Release patterns of avoidance, shutdown, or hypervigilance
Grieve what you didn’t get and reconnect with what’s still possible
Feel more grounded, present, and whole, not perfect, but you
You don’t have to re-live every detail of what happened, and you don’t have to carry it alone anymore.
Some days it will feel like nothing’s changing, until suddenly, it is.
You’ve survived. That’s already powerful, but survival isn’t the same as living. If you’re ready to feel more free, more steady, more like yourself: trauma therapy can help.
Schedule a free consultation for trauma therapy in Houston or virtually throughout Texas. We’ll go at your pace, not the world’s.
