Religious Trauma Therapy in Texas — Online Statewide
Trauma therapy from Dallas to Houston to Austin (and beyond)
In much of Texas, church runs through everything — school, business, family, Friday nights — which makes questioning it lonelier there than almost anywhere.
I'm Logan Brantley, a licensed clinical social worker at Soul Works Healing, and I provide religious trauma therapy to clients across Texas over secure video: Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and the hundreds of towns between them.
While I don't have a Texas office, and for this particular work, sessions from your own home solve more problems than an office would.
Why this kind of therapist is harder to find in Texas
A large share of the counseling available across Texas is explicitly faith-based — good work for people who want it, and a poor fit when the faith is what hurt you.
Many Texans hesitate to start therapy because they expect the therapist to defend the framework they're questioning, and that caution makes sense given the local options. My work carries no agenda about belief. People finish it devout, agnostic, atheist, and undecided, and the destination stays yours the whole way.
What we'd work on
The fear that lingers after the belief has faded. Decisions that still route through an invisible authority before you're allowed to make them.
A body trained in shame that didn't get the memo when your thinking changed. Grief for a community you can't fully keep and can't fully leave — and in many Texas families, all of this braided into family loyalty and cultural expectation, where leaving the church reads as leaving the family. My main religious trauma page covers the full picture of what religious trauma is and how healing works.
How online sessions help here
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Texas is eight hundred miles across, and therapists who specialize in religious trauma cluster in four metros. Video sessions erase that distance — a client outside Lubbock or in the Valley gets the same session as a client in Austin. Privacy matters just as much: in a town where everyone knows which congregation you belong to, therapy from your own home stays entirely your business.
The work itself runs through somatic parts-work for the internal voice that still speaks doctrine, Brainspotting for what got stored in your body, and expressive arts for the things you can't yet say in the language you were raised in.
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My practice centers on complex and relational trauma and the work of reconciling who you are with who you were raised to be — religious trauma sits inside that center, and it moves through my caseload constantly. The training behind it: somatic parts-work through The Embody Lab, accredited Brainspotting, doctoral-level expressive arts, an Embodied Social Justice Certificate, and the mind-body coursework I teach graduate clinicians at Bastyr University.
Questions people ask
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No — I work entirely over secure video with clients anywhere in Texas. For religious trauma, most clients come to prefer it: no waiting room, no commute, and nobody in town knows you're in therapy unless you tell them.
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Neither one. I hold no position on where you should land, and I've watched clients finish this work inside their faith, outside it, and somewhere new entirely. The system that hurt you decided things for you; therapy that does the same thing would repeat the injury.
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Only for the better. Small-town clients often carry the heaviest version of this — the church and the town are the same social world — and video sessions give you a private place to work that no local option can offer.
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Sessions are $160, $200, or $250 on my equitable three-tier model — you choose what's sustainable. Superbills provided; I partner with Thrizer. I'm also licensed in California, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., so a move within those six states doesn't end the work. The first 20-minute consultation is free.
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You've probably spent years managing this quietly — measuring what's safe to say around family, around church, even around friends who deconstructed louder or faster than you did. A free 20-minute video consultation is a place to say it plainly and see how that feels. No commitment, no doctrine, no grade.