Anabel Reynolds

I'm Anabel, a clinical social worker and certified trauma therapist in Texas and Washington, working with adults with high-functioning anxiety and PTSD who are quietly drowning. I've spent years studying the specific kind of exhaustion that comes from being the one everyone else relies on, and I work with people who are really good at holding it all together, until they're not.

I've been drawn to this work for longer than I've had the credentials for it. I started in therapeutic riding programs, became a crisis counselor, coordinated TMS treatment, and worked in military trauma research and a psychiatric hospital's military unit. Every stop taught me the same thing: the people who seem to be coping best are often carrying the most.

Outside the office, I'm a wife and stepmom controlling the chaos two rescue dogs bring to my household, trying to snag some peace and quiet with a cup of coffee and a good book. When people talk about me, I don't want them to label my success by my achievements or job, but by the number of lives I touch.

My practice, Surviving to Thriving, exists for people who are ready to stop white-knuckling their way through life and start actually living it. If you're exhausted in a way you can't quite explain, you're in the right place.

Therapy with me isn't about labeling the glass half full or half empty. It's about recognizing that it's refillable, and exploring what systems, relationships, or internalized beliefs have kept it from being refilled. I'm trained to work with the layered, non-linear kind of healing that doesn't fit neatly into a 12-week protocol, and I've worked with complex trauma long enough to know that insight alone doesn't create change. So I balance holding space with actually moving through things together.

Sessions feel like a conversation, not a worksheet. I'm trained in a handful of evidence-based approaches and I pull from whichever fits you, not the other way around. We'll laugh sometimes. We'll sit in hard things sometimes. I'll reflect what I'm hearing, push back gently when something doesn't add up, and name the things that are hard to say out loud.. My goal is to get you from surviving to thriving working with you to learn to fall back in love with everyday life. I believe that you already have the power to build a life you love. All you need is a little knowledge, a little insight, and a cheerleader in your corner to add a different perspective.