Mind-Body Therapy for Chronic Pain, Anxiety & Trauma
Mobilize the mind-body connection and retrain your brain to create pathways of regulation, resilience, and relief!
Mind-Body Therapy in Sugar Land
Virtually in Texas, Florida, Colorado
Accepting New Clients
Does it feel like chronic pain, anxiety, trauma, or stress have hijacked your life?
Are you living with mind-body symptoms that are medically unexplained or have not responded to traditional treatment?
Are you tired of living in survival mode and feeling stuck in the past, afraid of the future, and disconnected from what you value most in the present moment?
Take a deep breath. You are in the right place.
Welcome, Hero! Believe it or not, you are the hero of your story, and this is the part of the story where you discover that the medicine you need is within.
Let’s journey together to gain a deeper understanding of your protective brain and how to work with—not against—your mindbodysoul.
Your body is not broken—it’s communicating. Let’s learn how to listen and heal.
Hi! I’m Tierra Ortiz-Rodriguez, your Mind-Body Guide
Together, we’ll explore how chronic pain, anxiety, and trauma live not just in the mind or the body alone, but in the conversation between the brain, nervous system, and lived experience.
This work is a mind–body journey, combining cutting edge neuroscience with compassionate, body-aware practices to help your system feel safe enough to heal.
Whether you’re navigating back pain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, pelvic pain, IBS, migraines, anxiety, trauma symptoms, or other stress-related conditions, your symptoms are real—and they are changeable.
I offer integrative, evidence-based approaches that work from the top down and bottom up. These include Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Schema Therapy, Expressive Arts, Nature-Based Therapy, and other mind–body modalities designed to retrain the brain and restore a sense of safety within.
As a mind–body therapist and coach specializing in chronic pain and stress-related conditions, I’m here to help you reconnect with your mind-body’s wisdom, build nervous system flexibility, and awaken the inner strengths that support deep, lasting healing.
Let’s Grow Far Together!
When we understand how the nervous system gets stuck in protection and alarm, we can begin to gently guide it toward regulation, resilience, and relief.
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PAIN REPROCESSING THERAPY
Many chronic pain conditions are caused by the misfiring of pain circuits in the brain rather than physical or structural problems in the body. PRT is an integrative therapy for disrupting the pain-fear cycle and retraining the brain to feel safe through top-down knowledge and bottom-up tools.
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ACCELERATED RESOLUTION THERAPY
ART is a creative, evidence-based therapy for the rapid resolution of anxiety, trauma, and stress. ART mobilizes your creative intelligence using bilateral stimulation and memory reconsolidation as you neutralize triggers and rehearse success in the virtual reality of your mind.
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS
Expressive arts naturally engage the imagination, intuition, and inner wisdom towards healing and wholeness. Expressive arts facilitate emotional awareness through collage, journaling, drawing, poetry, story, metaphor, and many other forms of right-brain play.
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SCHEMA THERAPY
Learn about the protective traits keeping you stuck in maladaptive patterns. Schema therapy is informed by attachment theory, CBT, and inner parts work and teaches you how to nurture and protect your Inner Child, change Maladaptive Coping Modes, challenge the Critic Modes, and strengthen your Healthy Adult and Inner Parent.
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MINDFULNESS-BASED THERAPY
Mindfulness is paying attention nonjudgmentally to what’s happening right now with your emotions, thoughts, sensations, and automatic reactions. Mindfulness skills help you see yourself and the world in calm, clear, and fresh ways so that you can access your creative wisdom to respond.
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ECOTHERAPY/WALK AND TALK
Take your therapy outdoors and discover surprising insights and inspired solutions while practicing mindfulness in nature and being grounded in your body. Research shows nature-based, “walk and talk” therapy offers mental and physical health benefits simultaneously.
Chronic pain therapy, anxiety therapy, and trauma therapy in Sugar Land informed by mind-body medicine and a whole-health approach to healing.
MIND
Pain Reprocessing Therapy is an evidence-based neuroplasticity therapy to disarm the brain’s overprotective alarm and activate safety.
Cognitive behavior therapy, schema therapy, and mindfulness therapy are additional brain-based tools available to support your cognitive health.
We will explore your thoughts, beliefs, and the quality of awareness you bring to situations. You will learn to challenge negative thought patterns, let go of false beliefs and internalized voices, and build healthy attitudes and cognitive flexibility.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy and SoulCollage® are creative modalities supporting cognitive change at the level of images, metaphors, and stories.
BODY
Your body and emotions are highly sensitive detectors of wellness and dis-ease. I incorporate somatic therapy to help you create and sustain habits that are aligned with your values, health, and wellness.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy or Pain Recovery Coaching teaches you how to Disarm the Alarm and Activate Safety by turning toward sensations and emotions through a lens of safety, humor, and positive affect. Accelerated Resolution Therapy helps process and resolve troubling emotions and sensations stored in the body related to trauma and stress.
We will also explore somatic meditation, grounding, emotional freedom technique, and many other “bottom-up” approaches for supporting your physical and emotional health, including nature connection and ecotherapy.
SOUL
A soul-centered approach to healing invites you to examine that which sparks joy, meaning, and creative expression.
I invite an array of expressive arts into the therapeutic adventure. Through right-brain play, you will get to know your inner wisdom and authentic inner voice and discover your unique resilience and resourcefulness via SoulCollage®, creative journaling, drawing, dreamwork, and more.
We will dive into topics of passion, play, and purpose. We will pay special attention to your dreams and creative stirrings. We will explore the soul-tending practices of working with breakage and repair and coming to know “survival as a creative act.”
Are you ready to get started?
In your complimentary call, we’ll talk about your goals and I can help you decide if I’m the right mind-body therapist or coach for you.