CHRONIC ILLNESS & MEDICAL TRAUMA · TEXAS
CHRONIC ILLNESS
Your Body Has Been Carrying This
Trauma-informed therapy for women navigating chronic illness, medical trauma, and the emotional weight of a body that changed.
- You received a diagnosis that split your life into before and after.
- You've been through medical procedures, treatments, or hospitalizations that left more than physical marks.
- Your body doesn't work the way it used to — and you're grieving that, even if no one has given you permission to.
- You look fine to others. The internal reality is something else entirely.
- You feel guilty for struggling — because you're still functional, still showing up, still managing.
Chronic illness is not just a medical experience. It is an identity experience. A grief experience. A nervous system experience. And it deserves a therapist who understands that distinction.
Clinical Focus
- Adjustment to chronic illness and disability
- Medical trauma — procedures, hospitalizations, diagnoses
- Grief for previous health, identity, and capacity
- Caregiver stress and secondary trauma
- Autoimmune conditions and the stress-body connection
- Nervous system dysregulation and chronic pain
Why This Work Is Different Here
- Amanda brings both deep training and lived experience to this work
- EMDR is particularly effective for medical trauma
- Somatic and body-based orientation — not just narrative
- This is not symptom management. It is the deeper work of helping your nervous system understand that the emergency is over.
