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Individual psychotherapy for adults

Therapy for religious trauma and religious harm.

Leaving is not always the same as being free of it.

A religious system can remain long after you have changed your mind: in a body that braces around dissent, a boundary that feels like rebellion, or a decision that still needs someone else’s blessing.

I work with adults navigating religious trauma, religious harm, spiritual abuse, high-control religion, and faith deconstruction in Round Rock and online across Texas.

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Harm can be obvious. It can also look very ordinary.

  • Being taught that your needs were selfish or dangerous.
  • Monitoring your thoughts, body, sexuality, gender, or doubt.
  • Treating fear as conviction and distress as spiritual failure.
  • Forgiveness without accountability, or obedience without consent.
  • Losing community, identity, or practical support when you questioned the system.
  • Feeling responsible for other people’s faith, salvation, reputation, or stability.

Looking at the system, not just the belief.

We pay attention to who held authority, what belonging cost, what disagreement made dangerous, and which rules eventually became private rules you had to enforce on yourself.

Faith can be part of the conversation, or not. The work can include guilt, grief, anger, relationships, sexuality, identity, present-day decisions, and the practical project of building a life after certainty.

What may have more room over time.

  • Telling fear from conviction, and guilt from responsibility.
  • Making a decision without needing an authority to bless it.
  • Grieving a person, community, identity, or lost time without treating grief as evidence that leaving was wrong.
  • Keeping, revising, or leaving beliefs on your own terms.

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 have to call it trauma?

No. Religious trauma is a useful search term and a meaningful description for some people. Others prefer religious harm, spiritual abuse, coercive religion, adverse religious experiences, or no label at all.

Can I come to therapy if I am still religious?

Yes. The question is how the experience is affecting your life and what you want to understand or change—not whether your faith passes a test.

Is this only for people leaving evangelical Christianity?

No. Harm can occur across traditions, denominations, families, schools, ministries, and spiritual communities. We work with the system you actually encountered.