Healing History Counseling

Healing History Counseling I’m an EMDR trained therapist that specializes in helping adults heal childhood trauma, PTSD & cPTSD. I know that healing from trauma is possible.

I have done this hard work myself. I know how life changing and rewarding it is to heal from your past. My passion is helping other people navigate their healing journey.

People with painful pasts can often struggle with feeling safe. When people have used touch to hurt and harm we can fin...
12/23/2025

People with painful pasts can often struggle with feeling safe. When people have used touch to hurt and harm we can find it hard to not flinch away from all touch.

Healing from those painful experiences can help us learn to allow loving healthy touch into our lives.

We all deserve healthy, loving relationships. Humans are communal in nature and we thrive best when we are part of a web of interconnected and caring people. Healing the harm that was done to us can open us to those vital connections.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cumra

Our inner child isn't being a brat!They are hurting!Our unhealed past doesn't just go away. A part of us is stuck holdi...
12/22/2025

Our inner child isn't being a brat!

They are hurting!

Our unhealed past doesn't just go away. A part of us is stuck holding on to it. Shoved down into a hidden corner of ourselves, that part waits for us to remove the burden from them.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cumq9

When working with a therapist to heal your trauma, your therapist must helping you stay within your window of tolerance ...
12/22/2025

When working with a therapist to heal your trauma, your therapist must helping you stay within your window of tolerance (therapeutic window). Being within the window of tolerance is key to effectively healing trauma.

I like to talk with my clients about how this is like going to the beach:

When you are in the parking lot at the beach - you're not actually at the beach yet. You know it's just over there, you may even see it, but you're not in it. This is being outside your window of tolerance on the blue side.

When you are out in the deep water being dragged under by the riptide, you're overwhelmed and re-experiencing the trauma. Revisiting a traumatic memory like this is not healing. This is being outside your window of tolerance on the red side.

Effective healing of traumatic memories requires that you be walking along the waters edge. With the waves lapping at you feet. Touching the past experience enough to be emotionally connected but firmly on the safe shore (in the present moment).

The therapist must help you learn the skills you need to be able to get out of the red or blue and into the green (both in and out of session). During the trauma treatment the therapist must be closely attuned to your emotional state and helping you stay within your window of tolerance.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them.

Interested in working with me? Schedule your free consultation NOW at: https://healinghistorycounseling.com/schedule_now/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

A person's worth is not decided by others. It is decided by the individual. How a person values themselves is the only m...
12/21/2025

A person's worth is not decided by others. It is decided by the individual. How a person values themselves is the only measure that a person needs to pay attention to.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cump0

Although Austin's plethora of meditation and yoga studios suggests a city full of chill people, not everyone is comforta...
12/21/2025

Although Austin's plethora of meditation and yoga studios suggests a city full of chill people, not everyone is comfortable being so chill.

Survivors of childhood sexual or physical abuse often find the idea of being peaceful, quiet or calm as intolerable. Take a minute and sit quietly focusing on your breathing. Some people find that they get tense or upset when they try to do this. Some people find that they can't make their minds quiet; this is very common for people just learning to meditate. It can also be that a person's mind believes being quiet or calm is dangerous.

If calm, peaceful, or quiet was just a prelude to catastrophe during childhood, it makes perfect sense to would work hard to avoid those states as an adult. But calm, peaceful and quiet are not in themselves bad things. It is how they have become associated with the awful events that would follow. When we were a child it may have been impossible for us to avoid the chaos, we could only try to predict it. Now as adults we have much more control of the level of chaos in our lives. Healing our past can help us become comfortable with a quieter, calmer present life.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cumq8

Until we come to love ourselves we will struggle in relationships. A belief in our unlovableness will cause us to underm...
12/20/2025

Until we come to love ourselves we will struggle in relationships. A belief in our unlovableness will cause us to undermine and push away any love that is given to us. The cause of a lack of self-love is often rooted in our childhoods. Parent's who ignored, hurt or hated their children can create a belief in their children that they are unlovable. As a child we NEED love and acceptance and when it is denied us we think it is because something is wrong with us. This starts the belief system that can lead to an inability to accept love as an adult.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cumq6

Healing our history can be amazing and wonderful. But it is also challenging and tiring. While deep in the mud, it can b...
12/20/2025

Healing our history can be amazing and wonderful. But it is also challenging and tiring.

While deep in the mud, it can be easy to forget how much healing we have accomplished. We must take the time to pause some times to notice how far we have come. Celebrating our progress is a great way to renew our strength for the next step in our healing journey.

Taking the time to celebrate the healing already done can help us remember why we are doing this hard work.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cumq2

"Why didn't I fight back?" "Why didn't I try to get away or scream?" These are often the questions that survivors of ass...
12/19/2025

"Why didn't I fight back?"

"Why didn't I try to get away or scream?"

These are often the questions that survivors of assault and abuse will torture themselves with after they have survived. They may hate that they didn't do ANYTHING or feel that somehow it means they were to blame. The truth is that their mind had most likely chosen the Freeze danger response as their best chance to survive. Some part of their mind, probably the part that most deeply wants to keep living, has determined (correctly or not) that they can't fight their way out, they can't run fast enough to get away, and that there would be no talking their way out of this. So their mind chose the Freeze response as their best option for survival. Later they may believe they had other options, but in that moment a part of them made the best choice it could. (Check out this blog post on all 4 danger responses: http://ed.gr/cujk3

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/y205

12/19/2025

Shame can be very destructive.

This weeks blog is focused on how shame is different from regret and guilt. How regret and guilt can help a person grow and work towards becoming a better person but shame does not have the same impact on our life. I also discuss why it is so difficult to heal shame. How to know who may be a good person to help you heal your shame, and some steps you can take to start resolving your shame.

When a person grows up in difficult, awful, or horrendous conditions they do what must be done to get through. Later, wh...
12/19/2025

When a person grows up in difficult, awful, or horrendous conditions they do what must be done to get through. Later, when looking (through adult eyes) back at those childhood choices it is easy to judge them harshly. People often forget that it was not their adult selves who made those choices but a young child who was doing their best. Sometimes it is helpful to notice how childish a child's thinking truly is and gain perspective on their ability to make adult choices. Forgiveness of one's self is an important part of healing one's past.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cumq1

It is not always how our family behaves that causes us pain. It can also be our expectations of them. If our family has ...
12/18/2025

It is not always how our family behaves that causes us pain. It can also be our expectations of them.

If our family has never supported us as we needed them to, our continued hope that they will is actually what is causing us pain now. But it can be really hard to let go of those old hurts and harm.

Healing our history can help us let go of those unobtainable expectations and hopes. Healing our history will not make our family any less harmful or toxic than they've always been, but it can help us not cause ourselves extra pain through our own misconceptions.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in North Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them. I also offer sessions by video.

Interested in working with me? schedule your free consultation NOW at: http://ed.gr/cumqw

When we grow up in unhealthy, dysfunctional, or harmful home we learn how to live in that kind of environment. We don't ...
12/18/2025

When we grow up in unhealthy, dysfunctional, or harmful home we learn how to live in that kind of environment.

We don't learn how to live in or a healthy, functional, or safe life for ourselves.

We must make the effort to learn new skills, to heal childhood wounds, and to let go of the ways we used to survive then for better ways to live now. Some of this work we can do on our own, some we may need help with.

I am an EMDR trained trauma therapist with offices in Austin & Belton TX. I specialize in helping adults put their pasts behind them.

Interested in working with me? Schedule your free consultation NOW at: https://healinghistorycounseling.com/schedule_now/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

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I know that healing from trauma is possible. I have done this hard work myself. I know how life changing and rewarding it is to heal from your past. My passion is helping other people navigate their healing journey.

I am an EMDR trained therapist in Austin Texas. I specialize in working with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), CSA (Childhood Sexual Abuse) and generally helping adults heal trauma. If you are ready to start your healing journey, contact me to schedule your free 30 minute consultation.