Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
What is TF-CBT?
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a specialized therapy built to help people recover from trauma. If past events are still affecting your thoughts, feelings, or daily life—making things like sleep, safety, trust, or mood tougher—TF-CBT offers a way forward.
Why TF-CBT Helps
Trauma doesn’t just live in your past. It can show up in nightmares, flashbacks, feeling overly alert or unsafe, guilt, or even as numbness. TF-CBT works by helping you understand how your mind has been impacted by trauma, teaching tools to face distressing thoughts safely, and changing unhelpful patterns so you feel more grounded.
What TF-CBT Sessions Might Feel Like
Here’s how working together might look:
We’ll start by talking about what’s been hard: the trauma symptoms you're experiencing, what bothers you most, and what you’d like to see change.
You’ll learn skills to manage distress—stuff like recognizing triggers, calming your body, and regulating strong emotions.
When you’re ready, we’ll gently guide you through processing painful memories in safe ways, using tools from CBT to change negative or unhelpful thoughts.
We’ll also work on things like building healthier thinking, increasing activities that bring meaning or joy, and repairing relationships where possible.
You’ll get practice (yes, homework) to use skills in real life between sessions, and we’ll check in often to see what’s helping and what feels tough.
What You Can Expect
It might feel intense. Talking about trauma brings up hard stuff—that’s part of the healing, even if it’s uncomfortable.
It’s safe and paced by you. We’ll move at a speed that feels doable. You’re in control of sharing and processing.
Gradual changes. Over time, you may notice fewer flashbacks, more control over emotions, better sleep, more trust or safety in daily life.
Healing isn’t always linear. Good days and hard days both happen. We’ll walk through both together.
Is TF-CBT Right for You?
If you keep feeling stuck by trauma—whether it’s from something recent or something long ago—if memories, fear, guilt, shame, or anxiety still follow you, TF-CBT might be a good fit. If you want help to feel safer inside, more in control, more at peace, this could be your path.
You’re Not Alone
We’re online therapists based in Texas, trained in TF-CBT, here to help you heal, find more stability, and reclaim more of your life.
Research shows that therapy is one of the most effective ways to heal from trauma. At Point of Convergence Therapy, we use approaches that are proven to help, like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). We also offer other trauma-informed methods, including Trauma-Focused CBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing, and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). Together, we’ll find the approach that feels right for you and supports your healing.