Mind-Body Therapy for Chronic Pain, Anxiety & Trauma
Your body is not broken—it’s communicating. Let’s learn how to listen and heal.
Online Therapy across Texas, Florida, and Colorado
Mobilize the mind-body connection and build new pathways of regulation, resilience, and relief.
Living with chronic pain, anxiety, trauma, or stress-related symptoms can leave you feeling stuck in survival mode—triggered by the past, frightened of the future, and disconnected from the present.
When symptoms are persistent, medically unexplained, or haven’t responded to traditional treatments, it can be difficult to know where to turn.
Take a deep breath. You are in the right place.
A mind-body approach offers an opportunity to understand the deeper connection between your brain, body, nervous system, emotions, and lived experience.
Meet Tierra Ortiz-Rodriguez, LPC, mind-body therapist
Hi! I’m glad we are crossing paths. I help people with chronic pain and persistent symptoms retrain their brain’s protective patterns through Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and mind-body therapy.
Together, we’ll mobilize your mind-body wisdom, build nervous system flexibility, and awaken inner resources that support deep, lasting healing.
Whether you’re navigating chronic pain, fatigue, fibromyalgia, IBS, migraines, insomnia, anxiety, trauma, or another chronic illness or health challenge, your experiences are real AND meaningful change is possible.
My approach to mind-body therapy for chronic pain, persistent symptoms, anxiety, and trauma integrates top-down and bottom-up skills. We’ll explore how your symptoms live not just in the mind or the body alone, but in the conversation between the brain, nervous system, and your felt experience.
I integrate holistic mind-body modalities such as Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Integrative Medical Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Schema Therapy, Inner Parts Work, Expressive Arts, and Walk and Talk Therapy. Together we’ll create an individualized approach tailored to your needs, goals, and mindbodysoul.
Get to know Tierra
Therapy for chronic pain, anxiety, and trauma informed by mind-body medicine and a holistic approach to healing.
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PAIN REPROCESSING THERAPY
If you are living with chronic pain or persistent symptoms, there is hope. Pain Reprocessing Therapy is an integrative mind-body 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
Neutralize triggers and rehearse success in the virtual reality of your mind. ART is an evidence-based therapy for the rapid resolution of anxiety, trauma, and stress incorporating bilateral stimulation and memory reconsolidation.
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INNER PARTS 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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ECOTHERAPY
Walk and Talk Therapy supports insight, grounding, and connection. Explore a nature prescription and integrate the restorative benefits of nature into therapy or coaching. Outdoor sessions in Sugar Land or virtually in your home or nearby nature.
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SCHEMA THERAPY
Learn about the protective traits keeping you stuck. Schema therapy is informed by attachment theory, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and inner parts work and teaches you how to nurture and protect your Inner Child, strengthen your Healthy Adult, and access your Good Parent.
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MINDFULNESS-BASED THERAPY
Mindfulness is the practice of meeting your thoughts, emotions, and sensations with curiosity rather than judgment. By cultivating mindfulness, you can quiet the noise, see yourself and the world with greater clarity, and create space to respond with intention rather than react automatically.
Let’s Get Started
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Every meaningful journey begins with a single step. Reach out by phone, text or my contact form to schedule a free 30-minute consultation. We’ll talk about what brings you to therapy or mind-body coaching, answer any questions you may have, and see whether working together feels like the right fit.
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If we decide to move forward, I’ll send you a link to your secure client portal. You’ll complete some forms and questionnaires that will give me a better understanding of where you are now and help us prepare for our first session.
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During our first session, we’ll take time to get to know each other, explore what you’re hoping to change, and identify where you’d like to go from here. Together, we’ll create a personalized, holistic treatment plan and begin mapping out the next steps on your journey.
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Have questions before taking the first step? Find helpful information about sessions, fees, and what to expect. Visit the FAQs page.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy is an evidence-based neuroplasticity therapy to disarm the brain’s overprotective alarm and activate safety.
Cognitive behavior therapy, hypnotherapy, mindfulness therapy, and schema 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, hypnotherapy, and SoulCollage® are creative modalities supporting cognitive change at the level of images, metaphors, and stories.
Your body and emotions are highly sensitive detectors of wellness and dis-ease. I incorporate somatic approaches to help you create and sustain habits that are aligned with your values, health, and wellness.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy teaches you how to disarm alarm and activate safety by turning toward sensations and emotions through a lens of safety, humor, and positive emotion. Accelerated Resolution Therapy helps process and resolve troubling emotions and body sensations related to trauma and stress.
We will also explore hypnotherapy, somatic therapy, grounding, emotional freedom technique, and many other “bottom-up” approaches for supporting your physical and emotional health, including nature connection and ecotherapy.
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 Inner Parts Work, 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.”
