Your story matters.
And so do you.
Whether you are here by choice or because a court or CPS requires it, Brain & Heart Healing offers a path forward — with clinical precision, dignity, and care that holds both the science and the heart of healing.
Court-Ordered
Services in Abilene
Brain & Heart Healing is a trauma-informed therapy practice in Abilene, Texas offering individual, couples, and family therapy, court-accepted Family Violence Education, anger management, and therapy intensives. Services are designed for voluntary clients, couples in crisis, families navigating difficult transitions, and court-involved clients throughout West Texas. Now accepting new clients.
The Foundation
Everything Here Is
Trauma-Informed.
That Is Not a Feature — It Is the Floor.
Trauma-informed care is not just a phrase. At Brain & Heart Healing, it shapes how intake is paced, how consent is framed, how treatment is planned, and how every session is held.
It means starting where you are — not where we think you should be. It means your history is context, not a verdict. And it means that even when the work is hard, you are never the problem being fixed.
The behaviors and struggles you bring into this room are not character flaws. They are survival strategies. You will be treated as a person — not a file number, not a diagnosis, not a mandate.
The Brain
The neurobiological and behavioral side of healing. Understanding patterns, building skills, and rewiring the responses that no longer serve you. Utilizing ACT, CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
The Heart
The relational and attachment-based side of healing. Repairing trust, rebuilding connection, and finding safety in relationship again. Utilizing Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Grounded in Attachment Theory and Family Systems.
The Integration
Real change requires both. No single method holds all the answers. The goal is finding the tools that fit your story — not a formula applied to everyone who walks through the door.
A Path Forward — On Your Terms or the Court's
Every Service Here Is Built
to Meet You Where You Are.
For Individuals,
Families & Couples
Individual Therapy
Trauma-informed care for the weight you have been carrying alone. Specializing in relational trauma, anxiety, and co-occurring substance use concerns. Utilizing ACT, CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Couples Therapy
Utilizing Gottman Method Couples Therapy and trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — two of the most research-supported approaches for couples navigating conflict, loss of trust, and disconnection.
Family Therapy
Grounded in Attachment Theory and Family Systems. For families navigating reunification, communication breakdown, CPS involvement, or the aftermath of a legal case.
Court- & CPS-Accepted
Services
Family Violence Education (FVE)
Accepted by Texas courts and CPS. A structured, trauma-informed educational program for individuals required to complete FVE as part of a court order, probation condition, or CPS service plan. Completion documentation provided promptly to all required parties.
Anger Management
Court-ordered or self-referred. Evidence-informed and trauma-informed. Utilizing ACT and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Completion documentation available for courts, probation, employers, and other required parties.
Therapy
Intensives
Half-Day & Full-Day Intensives
For individuals and couples ready for accelerated progress. Utilizing an integrated mix of Gottman, EFT, and trauma-informed behavioral tools to move through roadblocks that weekly sessions might take months to address.
Ideal for pivotal moments — a major life decision, relational crisis, or a deeply rooted pattern that weekly sessions have not been able to shift.
Not Sure Which Service Is Right for You?
Start with a consultation and we will figure it out together. There is no wrong door here.
Financial barriers should never stand between you and healing. Apply for sliding scale fees →
We Understand Your
Documentation Requirements.
Court-ordered clients receive structured, trauma-informed programming with timely, accurate reporting that meets Texas BHEC standards. We make your job easier by being the most reliable point in your client's case.
Brain & Heart Healing, PLLC · Abilene, TX
Where the Brain and the Heart
Finally Work Together.
Healing is not one-size-fits-all. Neither is the person sitting across from me. Whether you are arriving here by court order or by your own search for something better, I bring the same commitment to the room — to understand your story first, and then to find the tools that actually fit it.
With over 25 clinical modalities in my toolbox, my work is guided by one core belief: that both the brain and the heart have to be in the room for real change to happen. The brain needs to understand what is happening and why. The heart needs to feel safe enough to let it.
I do not believe any single method holds all the answers. What I do believe is that you already hold more than you think — and my job is to help you access it.
Neurobiological & Behavioral
Utilizing ACT, CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Relational & Attachment-Based
Utilizing Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Trained in EFT. Grounded in Attachment Theory and Family Systems.
Specializing in trauma-informed care, relational trauma, co-occurring substance use concerns, and court-involved clinical services across Abilene and West Texas.
Brain & Heart Healing, PLLC
500 Chestnut Street, Suite 203
Abilene, Texas 79602
Getting Here
Brain & Heart Healing is in the historic Enterprise Building in downtown Abilene. Google Maps may drop the pin on the wrong side — follow these directions.
- Enter through the South 6th Street doors — not the Chestnut Street side
- Take the elevator to the 2nd floor — Suite 203 is elevator access only, no stairs
- When the elevator opens, turn left
- Suite 203 is on the left
Understanding Trauma, Therapy,
and the Legal System
Plain-language articles on court-ordered services, trauma-informed care, couples therapy, and emotional regulation — written for clients, families, and referral partners.