You've probably gotten good at functioning. Showing up, keeping it together, not letting it spill over. But something underneath hasn't settled, and part of you knows it.
Olive Branch Family Therapy offers trauma therapy in Denton, TX for adults dealing with PTSD, anxiety, childhood wounds, and trauma that shows up inside relationships. Sessions use EMDR and Internal Family Systems, delivered by licensed clinicians with training in trauma-specific settings. The office is located on Dallas Drive in Denton, and telehealth is available throughout Texas. Private pay rates run $95 to $150 per session, and most clients are seen within a week of reaching out.
Trauma doesn't always look like flashbacks. It looks like shutting down when someone raises their voice, feeling nothing when you should feel something, or avoiding situations that seem fine on paper but feel dangerous in your body.
For clients whose trauma has settled into persistent hypervigilance, nightmares, or emotional shutdown, PTSD therapy Denton TX addresses those specific symptom patterns with targeted EMDR protocols.
Experiences from early life don't always announce themselves as trauma, and childhood trauma therapy Denton TX is designed for adults who are only beginning to connect current struggles to what happened a long time ago.
Trauma and anxiety are closely linked, and clients who came in for one often find the other is part of the picture too, which is why anxiety therapy Denton TX runs alongside trauma work for many people here.
The trauma counseling work at Olive Branch uses EMDR and Internal Family Systems to help clients process what happened and move forward without it running the show.
EMDR helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they lose their grip. It doesn't require you to talk through every detail, and most clients find it less overwhelming than they expected.
IFS uses parts-based language to help you understand the pieces of yourself that formed around painful experiences, including the parts that protect you and the parts still carrying the original hurt.
Sessions begin with assessment and stabilization before any processing starts. Your therapist will build grounding skills with you first, so you're not going into difficult material without a foundation underneath you.
Jill Davis, Brittany Klabunde, and Wade Bates are among our therapists with EMDR training and experience in trauma-specific settings including crisis centers, shelters, and hospital environments.
Jill Davis, LMFT and EMDR therapist, has served Denton County since 2006 and specializes in trauma, anxiety, and grief. Brittany Klabunde, LCSW and EMDR Certified, trained at UNT and UT Arlington and brings direct clinical experience with domestic violence, sexual abuse, and crisis settings. Wade Bates, LMFT Supervisor and EMDR Trained, has more than 20 years of experience in crisis counseling and MHMR settings.
If you're not sure who to work with, the receptionist will talk through your situation and help find the right match.
Trauma often surfaces inside a relationship, and clients who recognize that pattern sometimes move between individual trauma work and couples counseling depending on what needs attention at a given point.
For clients who want to integrate faith into the process, that option is available here. Every therapist at Olive Branch is a Christian, and spiritual integration can be woven in as much or as little as you want.
Sessions run $95 to $150. Olive Branch is out of network with insurance, and individual therapy for trauma may be eligible for out-of-network reimbursement depending on your plan. Superbills are available to submit directly to your insurer.
Payment is accepted by cash, check, HSA, and all major credit cards. The practice also has third-party payer arrangements with local churches for congregants who need financial support to access care.
No. EMDR doesn't require a detailed verbal account of traumatic events. Your therapist will work with you at whatever level of disclosure feels manageable, and the pacing is something you control throughout.
If something happened that your nervous system hasn't fully recovered from, it counts. Trauma isn't defined by how severe an event looks from the outside. It's defined by the impact it left, and that's something a therapist can help you sort through in the first session.
It depends on what you're working through. Some clients process a specific event over several months of focused EMDR work. Others are working through experiences that developed over years, and that takes longer. Your therapist will give you a realistic picture once they understand your history.
That's worth telling your therapist directly. EMDR and IFS work differently than traditional talk therapy, and clients who didn't get traction elsewhere sometimes find these methods reach what talk therapy couldn't. The first session is a good time to share what did and didn't work before.
You don't have to explain yourself perfectly to get started. New clients are typically seen within a week, and reaching out through the contact us page is the first step toward getting matched with the right therapist for your situation.
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