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Individual psychotherapy for adults

Therapy for complex trauma.

When the danger is old, but your life still expects it.

Complex trauma is not always one event with a clean beginning and end. It can be a long education in what had to be noticed, prevented, absorbed, hidden, or survived.

I work with adults whose lives are still organized around chronic unpredictability, coercion, neglect, role reversal, conditional belonging, or relationships where safety and harm came from the same people.

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Survival can look very competent from the outside.

  • Scanning the room, anticipating reactions, and settling everyone else before you can settle yourself.
  • Going blank, calm, compliant, or intensely practical when something is wrong.
  • Wanting closeness and getting alarmed when it arrives.
  • Functioning well in public and collapsing in private.
  • Explaining the history clearly while feeling almost nothing—or everything at once.
  • Feeling ashamed of reactions that once kept you safe.

Starting with what is difficult now.

We begin with what is making life difficult now: a relationship, a shutdown, a boundary, conflict, a work decision, or a reaction that suddenly became much larger than the room.

My background in residential treatment, crisis work, and high-acuity care shaped a respect for both complexity and pacing. We do not need a complete timeline before the work can be useful.

What may become more possible.

  • Noticing when an old survival response has taken over.
  • Telling present risk from remembered risk.
  • Staying more present during conflict, closeness, or uncertainty.
  • Having needs without immediately converting them into obligations.
  • Organizing more of life around current reality.

The practical details.

Private-pay individual therapy with one therapist from the first conversation onward. The standard fee is $200 per psychotherapy session, typically 50–55 minutes; reduced-fee spots are limited and availability varies. In person in Downtown Round Rock, Texas, with telehealth across Texas.

Who you will work with.

Leila Anderson, LMFT-S, is a Texas Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor with an MMFT from Abilene Christian University. Her background includes residential treatment, crisis care, executive clinical leadership, program design, and treatment planning.

Questions.

Do I need a PTSD or C-PTSD diagnosis?

No. Therapy begins with your experience and current concerns, not with requiring a particular label.

Will I have to tell you everything that happened?

No. We can work with patterns, reactions, relationships, and present-day effects without a complete account of every event.

Is this appropriate during an acute crisis?

This practice does not provide crisis stabilization or emergency response. When immediate safety or intensive support is the primary need, a higher or more responsive level of care may be the right first step.