Cynthia Trevino Burns

You may be used to pushing through difficult days while anxiety, depression, grief, or trauma quietly takes more out of you than the people around you realize. Perhaps your mind rarely slows down, a loss has changed the way you experience yourself or your relationships, or painful experiences from the past continue to affect how safe and settled you feel today. I work with adults and seniors experiencing anxiety, depression, grief or loss, trauma, and PTSD. These concerns can also overlap with stress management, end of life concerns, relationship issues, and women’s issues, especially when loss, change, relationships, and everyday responsibilities begin affecting one another. With more than 34 years of experience, I believe therapy should give you room to be honest about what you are carrying without feeling judged or rushed. Together, we can understand what has been weighing on you, strengthen healthier ways of coping, and help you reconnect with a greater sense of stability, hope, and confidence.

Our work will make room for both what you are experiencing today and the relationships, losses, emotions, and experiences that have shaped how you got here. We’ll explore how anxiety, depression, grief or loss, trauma, and PTSD may be affecting your emotional wellbeing and ability to feel grounded in everyday life. I may use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to help you process painful or traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming in the present, Cognitive Processing Therapy to help you examine beliefs that may have developed around difficult experiences, and Trauma Focused CBT to build healthier ways of understanding and responding to trauma related thoughts and emotions. Motivational Interviewing can help you explore change without pressure, while Gottman Method approaches can help identify relationship patterns and strengthen communication when relationships are part of what brings you to therapy. Our sessions will be collaborative, affirming, and grounded in your individual experience, giving you room to process what has happened while building practical ways to move forward.

You do not need to have everything figured out or know exactly how to explain what you have been through before we begin. During our first few sessions, we will take time to understand what brought you here, what has been most difficult, and what you hope will feel different. Together, we will create goals that feel meaningful and realistic and decide where it makes the most sense to start. You can expect me to bring warmth, compassion, and solution oriented support to our conversations while creating a space where anxiety, depression, grief, relationships, and painful experiences can be discussed without judgment. Progress may look like feeling less consumed by worry, reconnecting with yourself when depression feels heavy, finding ways to carry grief without feeling defined by it, communicating more openly in your relationships, or feeling safer and less controlled by experiences from your past. We will continue checking in on your goals and shape our work around what helps you feel more grounded, supported, and hopeful moving forward.