Dawn Warren, M.A, LPC
Texas Trauma Therapist
You’re the one who keeps it all together, until you can’t.
You've spent a long time being capable, strong, the one others lean on. You know how to push through. You know how to look fine.
But you're tired. And you are feeling the weight of it- shutting down without warning, zoning out, snapping and then drowning in shame. Doubting yourself even when things are going well. Emotions that hit too hard or don't come at all. Rest that feels impossible or pointless.
This isn't a character flaw. It's what it looks like when a nervous system has been carrying too much for too long.
You don't have to keep pretending. And you don't have to figure this out alone.
Who Works with Me
People who live with anxiety that never fully quiets. Who feel shut down, numb, or disconnected from themselves. Who struggle with shame, perfectionism, or the exhaustion of always putting others first. Who are living with the long-term effects of trauma and who may have been in therapy before and felt like something was still missing.
You've developed extraordinary ways of surviving, and they made sense when you learned them. Our work together is about expanding what's possible while helping you live more authentically.
What Our Work Together Looks Like
As a trauma therapist in Austin, Texas, I work with adults navigating anxiety, CPTSD, and dissociation rooted in childhood and developmental trauma.
We move slowly. This work isn't linear, and there's no rushing. What changes over time is what you bring with you when you return to hard things-more awareness, more choice, more of yourself.
I work integratively, drawing from EMDR, Parts Work (IFS, Ego States Therapy), Mindfulness, and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Not as a formula, but in response to what you need. Integrative therapy is particularly effective for experiences that resist talk therapy alone. The relationship between us is part of the work itself, not just a container for it.
I have specialized training in dissociation and developmental trauma, and I welcome clients who have felt too complex, too much, or too hard to understand in other therapeutic spaces.
Working with an EMDR Therapist in Austin
I offer trauma therapy in person in Austin and via telehealth across Texas. I warmly welcome neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, and ethically non-monogamous clients.
If you've been searching for an EMDR therapist in Austin who understands complex trauma, dissociation, and the particular exhaustion of holding everything together for everyone else — you may have just found the right space.
A free 20-minute consultation is a chance to ask questions, get a feel for how I work, and find out together whether this might be the right fit.
