Amber Trejo, LMFT

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Amber Trejo, LMFT

Trauma and Attachment Specialist | I help people heal from complex trauma and break the cycle.

03/13/2026

Emotional flashbacks are one of the most pervasive symptoms of C-PTSD. They show up in our closest relationships, our parenting, and our work environment. If you’re living in America right now they may be showing up due to all the crazy things happening in our government.

When we are in an emotional flashback we show up as younger parts of ourselves, have limited access to our prefrontal cortex, and feel stuck and unable to move towards action.

Everything changes when we are able to recognize we are in an emotional flashback, ground and soothe ourselves. That’s why I created the SHORES method and use it regularly with my clients.

When emotional flashbacks threaten to take you out to sea SHORES will guide you back, gently.

Join me for this low cost workshop where I will explain more about emotional flashbacks and walk you through the SHORES method.

Q&A will be through the chat and cameras will be turned off so you can remain confidential you want and it will be recorded if you miss it live!

COMMENT or DM me SHORES and I’ll send you the info!

03/05/2026

Ooooof the struggle is real!

Something that has absolutely wrecked me as a mom with childhood trauma is watching my children struggle and holding space for their emotions without jumping into fix their problems.

As a therapist, I know it’s necessary and absolutely crucial for my children to struggle and feel pain. I know that fixing or making things better for them isn’t what they need.

What they need is to learn how to navigate hard things and difficult people and their big emotions in safe place with a safe person, so one day when these things come up and they are alone, they know how to cope in a healthy way.

But as a mom with trauma, when my kid feels something hard it can trigger me into an emotional flashback. Suddenly it feels like they are experiencing the same trauma I went through, feeling the same feelings. I don’t want them to ever feel pain, I want to protect them from everything.

I have to remember that my children feeling pain and struggling and having a secure attachment and safe home to process in, is quite different than what I experienced growing up with abuse and neglect in my home. They can learn how to navigate things like bullies and harsh teachers and feeling overwhelmed at school without me jumping into fix it.

Then it becomes about soothing the part of me that feels desperate to stop them from feeling any pain whatsoever. Reminding my inner child she is safe, they are safe and we can get through anything together ❤️

✨ Hi I’m Amber, a licensed family therapist who specializes in trauma and the family system. I’m also a mama to 3 boys healing from C-PTSD from my own traumatic childhood. I help people understand how trauma shows up in their relationships and parenting ✨

Follow along if this feels familiar ❤️

01/25/2026

Thank you for putting our collective grief into such beautiful words.

Heartbroken over the state of our country. Heartbroken at the senseless murders and trauma and abuses taking place.

💔💔💔

01/18/2026

For a long time, I thought healing meant pushing past my reactions.
Regulating harder. Understanding more.

But complex trauma doesn’t heal through effort alone. It heals through relationship.
Reparenting changed everything because it showed me that the parts of me that felt reactive, overwhelmed, or stuck weren’t problems to solve. They were younger parts still waiting for attunement, safety, and repair.

With complex trauma, we grow up learning how to survive without being supported. We develop incredible awareness and resilience, but we never get the chance to internalize a steady, compassionate caregiver. So when life gets loud or relationships get close, our system does what it learned to do a long time ago.

Reparenting asks a different question: “What happens when I respond to myself the way I should have been responded to then?”

That question reshaped how I relate to my emotions, my body, and my capacity. It taught me how to meet shutdown with gentleness instead of urgency, overwhelm with care instead of criticism.

That’s why I created this journal.
To guide you into a relationship with yourself, one page at a time.

This journal gently walks you through beginning to connect with your inner child through self-compassion, reflection, and reparenting practices designed for complex trauma.

Head to the link in my bio to download yours today!

01/12/2026

Comment GUIDE and this $27 guide will be yours for FREE!
(If you’re in Facebook you’ll have to go to the link in my bio)

One of the most important things I ever learned on my own personal healing journey that I have since begun teaching my clients is how complex trauma changes our nervous system.

When we go through complex trauma our system of safety and connection goes offline because safety and connection become an actual threat to our survival.

This is why most complex trauma survivors are always cycling through fight/flight and shutdown.

It’s absolutely crucial we learn about our nervous system and be intentional about spending time in our Ventral Vagal space.

Once we begin practicing this it changes everything! My clients notice a difference almost immediately after learning these techniques.

So I created a 19 page guide on how complex trauma impacts your nervous system with a checklist and in-depth exercises you can start TODAY to start changing your nervous system.

Comment GUIDE and you’ll get it (a $27 value) TOTALLY FREE! No strings attached!

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