Somatic Trauma & Anxiety Therapists in Hoover, AL
EMDR, Brainspotting & Depth Therapy Minutes from Birmingham and Vestavia Hills
When talk therapy hasn’t worked, it’s usually because the problem isn’t in your thoughts. Trauma, panic and burnout live in the nervous system, and that is where we treat them. Taproot Therapy Collective is a group practice of licensed therapists trained in somatic therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, parts work, Lifespan Integration and Jungian depth therapy, with QEEG brain mapping when you want objective data on how your brain is actually working.
Everyone here works somatically and experientially to get to the root of the trauma instead of managing symptoms, but each therapist brings a different specialty: complex PTSD, perinatal mental health, chronic illness and pain, religious trauma, ADHD and autism, physician and executive burnout, children and teens. Our intake coordinator matches you with the right clinician, not the next open slot. Meet our therapists.
Our office is off I-65 at the Riverchase exit, about ten minutes from Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook and Pelham, serving the greater Birmingham area in person, with secure teletherapy anywhere in Alabama on the same sliding scale. We accept Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama for most clinicians. Book online or call (205) 598-6471.
Insurance & Fees
We accept Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama for most of our clinicians. Private-pay and out-of-network sessions are $250, with an income-based sliding scale for clients with reduced income, in the office or by teletherapy anywhere in Alabama. Using out-of-network benefits? We send a monthly superbill with the diagnostic and procedure codes your insurer needs, so you can file for reimbursement yourself. Not sure what your plan covers or which therapist fits? Your first call is a free 15-minute conversation with our intake coordinator.Somatic Therapy in Hoover and Online Anywhere in Alabama
Somatic, EMDR and Brainspotting work reaches the nervous system directly, which is why clients who have spent years in talk therapy often feel a shift within a few sessions. Every therapist here offers secure video sessions, so if you're in Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Auburn, Montgomery, Mobile or a rural county with no trauma specialist nearby, you get the same clinicians and the same sliding scale as our Hoover office. How teletherapy works ›
Our Hoover Office
Taproot Therapy Collective
2025 Shady Crest Drive, Suite 203
Hoover, AL 35216
(205) 598-6471
Take I-65 to the Riverchase exit and turn toward Highway 31. We’re on the hill next to Full Moon BBQ, with free parking at the door. About 15 minutes from downtown Birmingham and UAB, ten from Vestavia Hills, Homewood and Mountain Brook, and a straight shot up I-65 from Pelham. Full directions ›
Hours
Monday–Friday: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Trauma Treatments We Offer in Hoover and Online
EMDR Therapy
Finishes processing the memory that stayed stuck. Our first choice for single-incident PTSD and panic. EMDR in Alabama ›Brainspotting
Reaches trauma below language, for complex and developmental trauma that EMDR protocols can overwhelm. Brainspotting for Trauma ›Somatic Experiencing
Releases the fight, flight and freeze still held in the body, for clients who understand their trauma but still feel it. Somatic Experiencing ›Internal Family Systems
Parts work for complex PTSD: learn what your protective parts carry and let them stand down. IFS Therapy ›Jungian Depth Therapy
Dream and shadow work for depression, midlife and religious deconstruction, when the question is what your life is for. Jungian Therapy ›QEEG Brain Mapping & Neurofeedback
Dr. Jason Mishalanie maps how your brain is actually firing, so ADHD, autism and brain injury get neurofeedback targeted to your data. Brain Mapping in Hoover ›Meet Our Therapists
Everyone at Taproot works somatically and experientially. Nobody here will spend a year asking how that makes you feel. What differs is what each clinician has lived, studied and trained in, and that's what the free intake call sorts out.
Brittany Gray, M.Ed., LPC-S, NCC
Former Vet Center director and Veterans Crisis Line coordinator. Military sexual trauma, brain injury, grief, healthcare and corporate burnout, and women navigating midlife and empty nest. EMDR and Brainspotting.
Schedule with Brittany ›Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S, MSW, PIP
Clinical director. Studied comparative religion before social work. Complex trauma, religious deconstruction and the question of what your life is for, through Jungian and existential depth work, EMDR, Brainspotting and Emotional Transformation Therapy.
Schedule with Joel ›Dr. Jason Mishalanie, PhD, BCN
Licensed psychologist with more than twenty years in neurotherapy. QEEG brain mapping, LENS neurofeedback and neurostimulation for ADHD, autism, brain injury and depression that hasn't responded to medication, with EEG analyst Diana Pizarro, an electrical engineer out of UAB's epilepsy research.
Schedule with Dr. Jay ›Dr. Haley Beech, PhD, MSW, LMSW
Published maternal-health researcher and neurodivergent herself. Pregnancy, postpartum, birth and medical trauma, and women figuring out late whether it's ADHD, autism or both. Brainspotting and somatic processing.
Schedule with Dr. Beech ›Pamela Hayes, MSW, LMSW
Lives with chronic illness and treats it: chronic pain, POTS, Ehlers-Danlos, MCAS, fibromyalgia, plus Pure OCD and complex PTSD. Pain Reprocessing Therapy, IFS, Somatic Experiencing and Lifespan Integration, by teletherapy anywhere in Alabama.
Schedule with Pamela ›Robin Taylor, LICSW-S
Tuscaloosa native. Religious trauma, high-control churches and families, the freeze and fawn response, and LGBTQ+ affirming care, much of it by video to rural Alabama. Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting and IFS.
Schedule with Robin ›Kristi Wood, LICSW, MSW, PIP
Polyvagal therapy and Brainspotting for attachment wounds, addiction recovery, adult children of alcoholics and chronic illness. Affirming of LGBTQ+ and non-monogamous clients. EMDR and DBT trained.
Schedule with Kristi ›Alice Hawley, LPC, LMFT, NCC, MA
Dissociative disorders, spiritual crisis and religious abuse, gender and sexuality transitions, and relationships. Jungian shadow work, EMDR, Brainspotting and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Schedule with Alice ›Becky Milstead, LPC
Twenty years with children, teens and the families around them: school anxiety, teen mood and trauma, and family dynamics that keep everyone stuck.
Schedule with Becky ›Marie Danner, LICSW-S, MSW, CCTP-II
Lead clinician. Takes the clients who have already done years of therapy without relief: severe PTSD, complex trauma and traumatic grief, through Lifespan Integration, Brainspotting, EMDR and DBT.
Schedule with Marie ›
“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.”
—Bessel A. van der Kolk,
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma