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Trauma Therapy Options Explained: A San Marcos Therapist's Guide to Choosing the Right Approach

By Diana M. Trevino, LMFT #50201`

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Posted: August 25, 2026

This guide walks you through the real differences between trauma therapy options. I will discuss what each one does, whether it's better in person or online, what it might cost, how to vet who you're trusting with your story, and what to expect when you finally make that first call. My hope is that by the end, choosing feels less like guessing and more like recognizing what feels right for you and what you need.

Healing Trauma – Nervous System Regulation

By Diana M. Trevino, LMFT #50201`

Nervous system regulation

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Posted: July 13, 2023

Safety, security, love, connection, understanding, full bellies, rest, joy, and happiness. I summarize this into one word, REGULATION. A Regulated Nervous System is a state of joy, peace, and security. There, you will find all the above and more that you didn’t know you could have. But internal or external goals are difficult to reach if you’re living in constant dysregulated nervous system. To heal trauma is to understand our nervous system and what regulation means from a physiological lens. The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is the part of your nervous system that regulates involuntary physiological processes such as your heart rate, breathing, digestion, blood pressure, and sexual arousal.

Unresolved Childhood Trauma

By Diana M. Trevino, LMFT #50201`

Trauma

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Posted: March 6, 2023

Childhood trauma is what you will hear therapists call Developmental Trauma or Early Trauma. It’s the experiencing of trauma while a child is also in the process of brain and physical development. Our brain, our cells, our nervous system. And therefore, needs to be approached not just from a point of talking about one’s experiences, but also creating an internal capacity to process one’s experience.