Healing Old Wounds to Create More Intentional and Connected Relationships.
Trauma-informed therapy for adults and couples healing childhood emotional neglect, attachment wounds, and unhealthy relationship patterns.
Virtual in Houston & Throughout Texas
If you’re here, something in your life may feel heavy or exhausting right now.
The Messages You Learned Growing Up
Maybe you learned early on to keep the peace, stay strong, or take care of everyone else’s needs first. Perhaps you were labeled “too sensitive” while your emotional needs were minimized, dismissed, or ignored.
You may have learned to stay quiet and “go with the flow” to avoid conflict, rejection, or criticism—often out of fear of being a burden. These patterns are common when you experienced childhood emotional neglect, grew up with emotionally immature parents, or lived through childhood trauma.
The Weight of Family and Cultural Expectations
For many first-generation adults, cultural and family expectations can add another layer of pressure. You may feel torn between loyalty to your family and honoring your own needs, struggling to set boundaries without guilt or fear of disappointing others.
Maybe a conversation with a parent still leaves you feeling guilty, anxious, angry, or emotionally drained.
Over time, these experiences can shape your sense of self, your self-worth and the way you relate to others.
How These Patterns Show Up in Relationships
The effects of childhood trauma, attachment wounds, and dysfunctional family dynamics often show up most clearly in adult relationships.
You may struggle with people-pleasing, hyper-independence, self-doubt, codependency, or difficulty trusting others. You may find yourself in the same types of relationships or repeating familiar patterns despite your insight and effort.
These patterns are especially noticeable in our most intimate relationships, often showing up as conflict, emotional disconnection, communication difficulties, fears of abandonment, or feeling unseen by our partners.
If this resonates with you, schedule your appointment today.
Who I Help…
Many of the clients I work with grew up feeling like they were either “too much” or “not enough”, often struggling to feel understood, accepted, or emotionally supported within their families. As adults, they come to therapy feeling like something is wrong with them, carrying deep self-doubt, anger, resentment, or recurring conflict in their relationships.
Many are also feeling exhausted from managing everyone else’s emotions, holding things together for others, or carrying responsibilities that were never theirs to hold in the first place.
Some are navigating family dynamics shaped by unclear boundaries, emotional over-involvement, or enmeshment, often finding it difficult to prioritize their own needs without guilt. Others are hoping to parent differently than what was modeled for them and break generational patterns rooted in their upbringing.
How Therapy Can Help
Hello!Hola!Claudia Galván, LPC
I am a Mexican-American bilingual therapist. I speak English, Spanish, and Spanglish.
In our work together, we slow things down. We approach relationship patterns and dynamics with curiosity and compassion. Using an integrative, trauma-informed approach—including attachment-focused work, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and nervous system-informed therapy—we begin to understand how these patterns developed and why they’ve been necessary for you.
From there, we begin creating new ways of relating. Many clients find they are able to trust themselves more deeply, set and maintain healthier boundaries, communicate more clearly, and experience relationships that feel more secure, balanced, and connected.
Over time, you may find yourself no longer reacting in the ways you’re used to. Instead, you feel more grounded in who you are, more confident speaking up for your needs, and more secure in your relationships—even during moments of conflict or emotional intensity.
Whether you're working to heal attachment wounds, break generational patterns, or recover from childhood emotional neglect, I provide trauma-informed therapy for adults and couples across Houston and Texas. Many clients come in struggling with relationship anxiety, communication challenges, and difficult family dynamics that continue to impact their relationships today.
Learn more about my approach.
Healing is possible.
Not by becoming someone new — but by finally feeling safe enough to be yourself.
It’s normal to feel nervous about taking the first step.
I invite you to reach out with any questions you may have or to set up a free 15 minute consultation.