Religious Trauma Therapy in Texas
Build a confident, authentic life after your restrictive religious upbringing.
Hi, I’m Ashley.
I’m Ashley Hamm (she/her) and I am a licensed professional counselor helping people like you create a joyful, meaningful life despite the impacts of high-control religion. I offer online therapy over video to residents in Texas.
Religious trauma therapy can help you:
- Take ownership over your own life’s goals, even if you struggle to break away from the expectations of others
- Speak up and set boundaries with family despite years of conditioning to stay silent and go with the group
- Move past the fears that were indoctrinated into you through sermons on eternal damnation and purity culture
- Imagine all possibilities for your religious and spiritual future, including the option of being non-religious
I can help you clarify what’s important to you, move through guilt and anxiety, and create the confident life you always wanted but never felt ready to pursue. At my online practice specializing in religious trauma therapy and religious deconstruction, we can work together in a confidential space to build clarity and identify your next steps. Schedule an introductory call if you’re ready to get started:
Inclusive counseling that addresses systemic impacts on your well-being
Many high control religions teach beliefs that are harmful to your mental health and deny systemic inequality. I can help you unlearn internalized homophobia, fatphobia, misogyny, and more so that you can fully embrace all of you. My compassionate approach gives you the space to grieve the harm that was done to you during your religious upbringing, so that you can move forward and build a joyful life built around your needs and identities.
Our work together will be:
- LGBTQIA+ affirming
- Intersectional feminist
- Neurodiversity affirming
- Anti-capitalist
- Affirming of all body sizes
- Honoring of climate grief and anxiety
This approach recognizes the stressful aspects of our modern world that impact your mental health. Naming this allows us to focus on how you can best care for yourself and live according to your values in spite of these oppressive impacts. Through this work you can grow to set more boundaries with those around you who continue to hold onto harmful beliefs so that you can honor the parts of you that your religious community told you were wrong.
Online therapy for Texans
You’re ready to start counseling for your religious trauma, and online counseling lets you get started easily after a brief introductory call with me. If you’re anywhere in Texas, I can help through my telehealth practice. Schedule an introductory call to get started:
Read more about my areas of specialization:
Religious Trauma and deconstruction
Some religious environments can have lasting impacts on your self-image, ability to navigate relationships, and more. Learn how counseling can help:
self-esteem
You may struggle to speak up for yourself, reach for your goals and dreams, or feel confident in your relationships. Learn more about my approach to addressing self-esteem challenges:
anxiety
You struggle to see the way things might turn out well, and worry about matters big and small. You see anxiety shrinking your world, and you’re ready to see if counseling can help. Learn more about how counseling can change the impacts of anxiety on your life:
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Hamm Counseling
Video therapy for adult residents of Texas
713-999-4303
723 W 17th Street, Houston, Texas 77008