Selah Trauma Counseling Center

10/24/2026

Been hesitant to start therapy because you’re not sure you can fit in another drive to an appointment? We have a solution for that!

Through our secure telehealth platform, you can make your appointment from your home or office in Texas. Preferably not from the car while you’re driving though!

Both Jodi & Jessica create a virtual space that still gives you the soft landing of coming into the office. Making attuned, trauma focused care accessible. They’ve both worked with teens and adults across the lifespan and know how to help you with the symptoms of trauma..
If you’re overwhelmed with being a new mom or experienced perinatal trauma, Jessica may be a good fit. If you’re struggling with anxiety or experienced adoption in your family, Jodi may be a good fit.

Both accept Bcbs & Cigna. Not sure who would be a better fit? Schedule a consult and we can help you decide.

10/23/2026

10/22/2026

10/20/2026

Do you see me? Can I count on you? Important questions in a relationship to be prioritized!

10/15/2026

Ptsd can be a correlating condition, where symptom presentation is ‘acquired’ where it wasn’t present before. Those symptoms can improve with trauma treatment.

In contrast, someone born with symptoms may be high functioning and have masked. Then with trauma treatment, symptoms may worsen.

There is a clinical ecosystem that we utilize to understand and treat trauma symptoms. This framework helps us explore how correlated symptoms may show up, get better, or worsen.

A new Clinical Practice article summarizes the assessment and treatment of adult attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder, with an emphasis on common psychiatric and medical coexisting conditions and combined pharmacologic and psychosocial care.

10/14/2026

Maybe when you keep searching for what’s wrong, you keep sending the message something is wrong. Sometimes, it’s just as important to be present and live right where you are.

And mostly, you may need to go gently. A body in activation or shutdown doesn’t turn on/off like a light switch. Practice. Pause. Feel & check in. And repeat.

10/12/2026

10/10/2026

World Mental Health Day

Here's my opening paragraph for my book and we'll see if I manage to capture lived experiences.

"The life story of the many pained, the theme of nothing, the unlovable, the generation of silence amongst the screamers in your family tree. The many pains of complex trauma go far beyond any physical scars. The remnants of you scattered, shoved down far, locked up and hidden where they can’t be touched or hurt again. The nothingness inside of you comes from the nothingness that met the cries for love and connection. A cruelty all by itself, or for some, in conjunction with other types of abuse. Have you ever noticed silence can have a temperature?

The very best part of people, love, becomes the weapon wielded, sharpened, and honed over time. It’s a slow, painful, excruciating death by a thousand cuts to push that part of you down, to lose your identity and become nothing yourself. These silent wounds we walk around with, pretending we’re ok. Holding a dirty little secret that we’re unlovable, unworthy, bad. Absence becomes the norm, your homeostatic functioning locked into an unfinished loop of protection and defense from the brain, the nervous system, even down into the cells."

So you see how the present doesn't exist, it's a predictive pattern in the brain. The body picking up sensory clues, context added as it moves up the spinal cord and into brainstem, then midbrain, then ideally cortex if we. have the capacity to recognize the familiarity of the pattern. Insight alone doesn't create changes, so we have to add in action too. Maybe it's a breath or another sense like smell. It takes unconscious reaction approximately 16 milliseconds and conscious act, that part involving our neocortex/thinking brain, 100+ milliseconds.

It can be done though. Every day, in small doses to reduce overwhelm. Our language is violent, the news is often violent. That's why breaks are necessary. Looking for tiny little joys, nature, and glimmers begin to shift the pattern. Savor that cup of tea (or coffee) this morning. Really take it in with all the sense. There's neuroplasticity happening!

10/10/2026

10/08/2026

One of the beautiful grief traditions in the Mexican culture is Día de los Mu***os. A tradition of remembrance and connection in the present.

This year, we created a space inspired by this tradition, inviting our community to leave a marigold for somebody they carry in their heart. An opportunity to welcome in the both/and of grief - the sharing of your heart space with nostalgia and sadness, grief and gratitude, bitter and sweet, sad and mad, absence and presence.

And a favorite poem:

I go in and out, don't you?
Into flow and gratitude, and out of it again.
Into grief and hopelessness, and out of it again.
Into routine; cooking, walks, connection And then into bed, the bath, my head, my tears.

These days call for the ability to sway, sway into reality, sway into empathy, and back again.
Dip toes into fear, anxiety, awareness and rest in creativity, distraction, comfort.

We go in and out, like tides creating our own slow rhythms-finding the pulse of survival.
-Alix Klingenberg

May we all find our rhythm beyond survival!
***os