Catrina Drinning-Davis

I'm Catrina Drinning-Davis, with more than 14 years of experience supporting survivors of emotionally and psychologically abusive relationships. I hold a Master’s degree in Counseling and specialize in helping clients navigate the aftermath of narcissistic abuse, navigating a divorce or other relationship struggles. I provide individual therapy and discernment counseling for couples across Texas, Arizona, Virginia, South Carolina, and Florida through virtual therapy and EMDR intensives.

My approach to therapy is direct, collaborative, and deeply respectful of your lived experience. I don’t push clients to leave relationships or make decisions before they’re ready. Instead, I help you slow down, get clear on what’s happening, and understand the dynamics of trauma, emotional abuse, and relationship stress.

Together, we’ll create a space where you can name what you've been through, without minimizing it or having to explain why it hurt. I use EMDR therapy to help process trauma in a way that honors your pace. My role isn’t to give you advice. It’s to help you reclaim your inner voice and strengthen your ability to trust yourself again.

I believe healing looks different for everyone, and there's no one right way to move forward. Whether you're untangling the confusion of gaslighting or rebuilding your sense of self, therapy with me is about clarity, choice, and emotional safety.

Clients often tell me that therapy helps them finally feel understood, not judged, analyzed, or rushed. In our work together, you can expect to walk away with language for what you’ve been through, a clearer sense of your own values and needs, and tools to respond to triggers without shame.

In our work together, EMDR is less about reliving trauma and more about giving your brain a chance to process it fully. We move at your pace, preparing you with grounding tools and focusing on what feels safe to approach. Many trauma survivors find that EMDR helps reduce emotional reactivity, softens shame, and makes space for new, more compassionate beliefs to take root.

If weekly therapy isn’t quite enough, or if you’re ready for deeper work, you might consider an EMDR intensive. These are extended sessions (often 3–6 hours, scheduled over 1–2 days) designed to help you go further, faster, without the stop-and-start of traditional weekly therapy. Intensives are tailored to your goals, whether that’s working through a specific memory, breaking a trauma bond, or untangling chronic self-doubt.

You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit. EMDR can be a powerful tool for reclaiming clarity and calm, especially when you’re ready to understand your story in a new way.

Over time, many clients begin to notice that they’re setting boundaries with more confidence, questioning harmful narratives they once believed, and approaching relationships with more clarity and compassion for themselves.