Sasha Flores, LCSW-S, PMH-C
Texas • Oregon •Colorado •Washington • Online
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Locations:
In Person: Corpus Christi, TX
Online: Texas, Oregon, Colorado and Washington
Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday | 10am - 6pm
Friday- Sunday | Available by Appointment
Associations:
EMDRIA International Association Membership
Postpartum Support International
Yoga Alliance Membership
You’ve probably spent years being the one who holds it together.
The dependable one. The capable one. The one everyone calls in a crisis while you quietly carry stress, trauma, pressure, responsibility, and emotional exhaustion like it’s just part of your personality now.
You keep functioning. You keep producing. You keep showing up. But underneath it? Your nervous system has been running a marathon for years, and no amount of “just push through it” is fixing that anymore.
As a therapist, veteran, and former first responder with backgrounds in both law enforcement and healthcare, I work with a lot of people who are incredibly high-functioning on the outside and completely burnt out underneath. People who are used to surviving in high-pressure environments where vulnerability wasn’t exactly rewarded and emotional shutdown became a skill set.
A lot of my clients are deeply self-aware already. They’ve read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Tried to logic their way out of trauma responses, anxiety, overthinking, emotional numbness, relationship patterns, or the constant feeling that they can never fully relax.
And at some point, insight stops being the issue. Because your nervous system does not care how intellectually aware you are while it’s still stuck in survival mode. This work is not about pretending everything is fine, endlessly venting, or collecting coping skills while your body is still carrying years of unresolved stress, hypervigilance, grief, pressure, anger, or emotional suppression. We get underneath it.
That means looking honestly at the patterns, defenses, survival strategies, attachment wounds, and unresolved experiences shaping the way you relate to yourself, intimacy, trust, control, rest, emotions, and other people.
And if you’ve spent years minimizing your pain because “other people had it worse,” functioning at a high level while quietly falling apart, or convincing yourself you should be able to handle it alone by now , you are exactly the kind of person this work was built for.
Over time, clients often notice they stop feeling constantly braced for impact. Relationships feel safer. Boundaries become clearer. Sleep improves. Anxiety becomes quieter. Emotional connection feels more accessible. Life stops feeling like something you’re just managing or enduring.
Not because you became weaker.
Not because you fell apart.
Because your system finally stopped having to survive everything alone.
My Values
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My Values *
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At the core of my work is the belief that your worth is not something you have to earn through performance, productivity, perfection, or how well you hold everything together. Trauma, relationships, family systems, and life experiences can disconnect people from themselves in profound ways, but none of those things change your inherent value.
My role is not to fix you. It’s to help create enough safety, honesty, and depth for healing to happen without judgment, shame, or forcing you to become someone you’re not. Whether we’re working through trauma, relationship patterns, anxiety, grief, burnout, or identity, the foundation stays the same: you deserve to be treated with dignity, your experience matters, and you do not have to carry it all alone.
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My work is grounded in the understanding that people do not exist outside the systems, cultures, and environments that shape them. Trauma, burnout, grief, shame, disconnection, and survival patterns are often deeply connected to experiences of oppression, exclusion, violence, discrimination, or not feeling safe to fully exist as yourself. Because of that, therapy cannot simply focus on “fixing” the individual while ignoring the realities impacting their life.
I am committed to creating a space that is affirming, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and deeply respectful of each person’s lived experience. This includes LGBTQIA2S+ clients, BIPOC communities, religious minorities, immigrants, people with disabilities, first responders, veterans, and those who have spent large parts of their lives feeling misunderstood, unseen, or forced to shrink themselves to survive.
This work is not about political performance or empty language. It’s about dignity. Safety. Belonging. And making sure you do not have to prove your humanity in order to deserve care, respect, or healing.
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I believe therapy works best when it feels collaborative, clear, and grounded in trust not confusing, vague, or like something is being “done” to you. You deserve to understand the process, the purpose behind the work, and what’s happening along the way.
That means I’m direct about the approaches I use, why I’m using them, and what to expect throughout the process. Whether we’re working with EMDR, ART, Brainspotting, somatic approaches, or other trauma-focused modalities, I’ll guide you through the work with clarity, collaboration, and ongoing check-ins around what feels supportive and effective for you.
Transparency also means being upfront about logistics, boundaries, and fit. You’ll know session fees, policies, and expectations before committing. I’m honest about what I can and cannot provide, including the limits of my availability and the fact that I do not offer urgent or same-day crisis services. And if I believe another level of care or approach would better support you, I’ll tell you directly and help guide you toward appropriate resources.
To me, transparency is part of creating safety. You should never feel left in the dark about your care, your treatment, or the work we’re doing together.
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I believe healing happens in relationship. Trauma, stress, burnout, and painful life experiences often leave people feeling disconnected from themselves, from others, and from any real sense of safety or belonging.
A big part of this work is helping people reconnect. Not just intellectually, but emotionally, relationally, and within the nervous system itself.
Whether we’re working individually or with couples, we pay attention to the patterns shaping how you experience trust, intimacy, conflict, emotional closeness, communication, and connection. Together, we begin understanding how past experiences and attachment wounds may still be influencing the way you relate today.
My work with couples integrates approaches like Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and trauma-informed, body-based therapies to help partners move out of reactivity and toward deeper emotional safety, understanding, and connection.
I also believe the therapeutic relationship itself matters. Healing often begins in spaces where people feel genuinely seen, respected, emotionally safe, and able to show up more honestly than they’ve been able to elsewhere.