You might not even call it trauma. You might just know that certain things affect you more than they seem to affect other people, that you go quiet in situations that feel vaguely familiar, that close relationships bring up feelings you can't quite trace to anything happening right now. You've probably wondered, more than once, whether what happened when you were young has something to do with how hard things feel today.
Childhood trauma therapy in Denton, TX at Olive Branch Family Therapy is designed for adults still carrying the weight of early experiences, even when those experiences happened decades ago. Sessions are available in person and via telehealth throughout Texas, with a session rate of $95 to $150. Most new clients are seen within a week.
The brain develops in relationship. What happens to a child, especially repeatedly or early on, shapes the nervous system in ways that don't simply resolve once the childhood ends.
What most adults carrying childhood wounds have in common is that the experiences themselves are long over, but the body and nervous system never got that memo, which is exactly what trauma therapy is designed to address.
This shows up differently for different people. For some, it's anxiety that arrives without obvious cause. For others, it's a persistent sense of not being safe, even in relationships that are genuinely good. Some people find themselves reacting to partners, children, or coworkers in ways that feel disproportionate, and that gap between what's happening and how big it feels is often where the early history lives.
Childhood experiences are stored differently than adult memories, often without clear narrative but with the full emotional weight still intact, which is part of why EMDR therapy works so well for this kind of work. It doesn't require you to describe what happened in detail to begin reprocessing it.
That matters specifically for childhood trauma, because many people have limited verbal access to what happened. They were too young to have words for it, the memories are fragmented, or they've spent years working hard not to think about it. EMDR works at the level of the nervous system, not just the narrative, which makes it effective even when the story isn't fully formed.
We also use IFS (Internal Family Systems) for childhood trauma. IFS is particularly helpful when early experiences have left protective parts of you still working overtime to keep you safe from something that isn't actually happening anymore.
The clinicians who work with childhood trauma at Olive Branch, including Jill Davis, Brittany Klabunde, and Moriah Barr, all trained in EMDR, bring both the clinical framework and the relational steadiness that this kind of work requires.
Jill Davis is a certified EMDR therapist who has worked with trauma, grief, and anxiety rooted in early experience throughout her career serving Denton County. Brittany Klabunde is EMDR Certified with a background in crisis centers, shelters, and hospitals, giving her particular depth with trauma involving abuse or chronic early adversity. Moriah Barr brings EMDR training alongside experience with grief, parenting, and life transitions that often resurface childhood patterns.
Telehealth sessions are available for clients across Texas who prefer to work from home.
Come in anyway. Trauma isn't defined by whether something looks significant from the outside. It's defined by how it was experienced and what it left behind. If your early experiences are still affecting your relationships, your nervous system, or your sense of safety, that's enough to start. You don't need a clear story or a formal diagnosis to begin.
That fear is one of the most common things people bring into a first session, and it's taken seriously here. We build grounding and stabilization skills before any processing begins, so you have real tools in place before we move toward harder material. The work is designed to make your daily life more manageable, not more destabilizing.
No. Adults do this work at every stage of life, and the brain retains the capacity for healing across the lifespan. People in their 30s, 50s, and beyond come to Olive Branch and find that addressing early experiences changes how they feel in their relationships, their parenting, and their day-to-day life in ways they didn't think were still possible.
You don't need to have this figured out before you reach out. If you've spent years wondering why certain things affect you the way they do, that question alone is a reasonable place to start. You can reach out to us to get scheduled, and most new clients are seen within a week.
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