Online Trauma & ACT Therapy in Oklahoma City and throughout OK & TX
- Chronic anxiety
- Difficulty sleeping
- Difficulty managing your emotions
- Unwanted thoughts
- Avoidance or emotional numbness
- Feeling isolated and lonely
Trauma can also live in your body, showing up tension, stiffness, aches and pain that persist but have no apparent cause.
For women and families navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, or postpartum, these same symptoms can surface too.
Often, this is because trauma gets triggered by uncertainty, intense physical and emotional changes, and a feeling of loss of control over your circumstances… or your own body.
If any of this resonates, you landed in the right place.
Acceptance & Commitment
How Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) Can Soften The Trauma Response
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT for short) is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that is becoming a go-to option for treating trauma.
Instead of trying to suppress intrusive thoughts or difficult emotions, ACT focuses on accepting them as part of the human experience. It also helps you take action based on your core values.
Basically, ACT is about self-compassion and living in alignment with your values. That combination creates emotional resilience:
The ability to experience negative emotions without getting stuck in them.
Over time, this reduces the intensity of your trauma response and helps your nervous system become more balanced.
How ACT Can Help People On A Fertility Journey
ACT works really well for fertility, perinatal, and postpartum struggles because these difficult experiences can't be "fixed" with logic or reason.
As a therapist working with people who have experienced infertility. loss or the transition into parenthood, I have seen firsthand how effective ACT is, especially when combined with Brainspotting.
I like to use Brainspotting to process a difficult memory like a traumatic delivery, a miscarriage, or a failed IVF cycle.
After that, ACT is part of ongoing therapy for living with uncertainty, making values-based decisions, and reframing your relationship with your body and your future.
How ACT Can Help Moms Transition Into Motherhood
Maybe you’re dealing with postpartum depression, intrusive thoughts, or feeling disconnected from your baby. These experiences can be extremely isolating, bring up shame, and are often used against oneself.
ACT meets those thoughts and feelings with compassion instead of judgment. It treats them as a normal part of being human, while helping you act from your values instead of from misaligned thoughts or feelings.
This way, you don’t have to repress what you’re going through. You just keep moving towards the life you want, instead of fighting yourself every step of the way.
It’s a compassionate approach that works well across a wide range of trauma experiences.
- If you're in crisis. Are you struggling with overwhelming anxiety, deep depression or other acute mental health issues? You need stabilization first.
- If you want quick symptom relief. ACT is about accepting difficult feelings to help regulate your nervous system over time. However, if you’re looking for fast, immediate relief, it might not be a good fit.
- If you're dealing with complex, unresolved trauma. In certain cases of trauma, you may need some stabilization work first. This doesn’t mean ACT can’t be beneficial; it just needs to be preceded by other types of work.
When ACT May Not Be The Right Fit
You get better at staying present and embodying your values, even when difficult feelings or memories are still there.
What Clients Typically Experience From ACT
More flexibility, less avoidance.
Less power to shame, fear, and negative thoughts.
These negative feelings often become less overwhelming and more manageable, even if they don’t fully disappear.
More action aligned with what matters to you.
You learn to show up in a way that you are proud of at work and in your relationships.
What ACT Sessions Usually Feel Like
We start by building trust and understanding your struggles, what you’ve tried, and what you want to get out of therapy.
Talking through what's going on.
Mindfulness and acceptance practice.
I’ll teach you mindfulness practices to help you observe your thoughts and feelings without needing to push them away.
Exploring your values.
Together, we figure out what matters most to you and look at how trauma or struggle may have pulled you away from that.
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