You don't need to have it all figured out.
Maybe you know exactly what brought you to therapy. Maybe you just know something isn't working anymore. You might be dealing with trauma that still feels too close, a brain that doesn't always cooperate, a relationship that keeps hurting, or a life that looks very different from what you thought it would.
You don't need the perfect words for any of it.
Come as you are. We'll figure out the rest together.
Who I Work With
I work primarily with adults navigating trauma, ADHD, relationships, and major life changes. You may know exactly what you want help with, or you may just know you don't want to keep feeling this way.
Trauma & the past that won't stay in the past
Sexual trauma, relationship trauma, childhood experiences, loss, attachment wounds, and experiences that continue to shape how you feel and relate to others.
ADHD & neurodivergence
Late diagnosis, overwhelm, executive functioning, masking, shame, relationships, and figuring out how to build a life that actually works with your brain.
Relationships
Dating, breakups, infidelity, boundaries, family conflict, attachment patterns, communication, and figuring out whether to stay, leave, repair, or start over.
Life when everything is changing
Career changes, identity shifts, grief, adulthood not looking like you expected, and those periods when the old version of your life doesn't fit anymore but the new one hasn't quite taken shape.
I also work with couples, service members, veterans, and military families, with specialized graduate training in military and veteran counseling.
About Tracy
I'm Tracy Carlson, a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in Texas with a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from William & Mary. My graduate training focused on military service members, veterans, and their families, with an emphasis on trauma, relationships, identity, and the complicated systems we all have to navigate.
I don't believe therapy needs to feel clinical to be serious. You can talk to me like an actual person. We can do meaningful trauma work and still laugh. We can spend weeks working toward a goal and decide that today, we really need to talk about what happened on Tuesday.
You're a person first, not a diagnosis or a treatment plan.
I'm interested in the whole person sitting across from me: what happened to you, yes, but also what you love, what makes you angry, who matters to you, what makes you laugh, and what you want your life to look like. My job isn't to decide who you should become. It's to help you understand yourself, heal what hurts, and build a life that feels like yours.
Outside the therapy room, I'm an eighth-generation Texan, a fine art photographer, an animal person, and a huge supporter of local artists and independent businesses. I love the creative culture of Texas and the strange, beautiful places that make it home. The photographs throughout this site are mine, and sharing my home with six rescue animals means there's a very good chance we'll eventually talk about your pets, too.