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Therapeutic Services In Dallas Texas

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. Individual counseling can help one deal with many personal topics in life such as anger, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, marriage and relationship challenges, parenting problems, school difficulties, career changes, etc.
Individual counseling is a process through which clients work one-on-one with me in a caring, confidential environment. Counseling allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change.

Some couples seek relationship counseling to strengthen their partnership and gain a better understanding of each other. Couples counseling can also help partners who plan to get married. Relationship counseling can help couples achieve a deeper understanding of each other and iron out differences before marriage.
In other cases, couples seek counseling to improve a troubled relationship. You can use couples counseling to help with many specific issues, including:

- Communication problems

- Sexual difficulties

- Conflicts about child rearing or blended families

- Substance abuse

- Anger

- Infidelity

Couples counseling might also be helpful in cases of domestic abuse. If violence has escalated to the point that you're afraid, however, counseling alone isn't adequate. Contact the police or a local shelter or crisis center for emergency support.

Often, when something traumatic happens, it seems to get locked in the brain with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, feelings, and so on. Since the experience is locked there, it continues to be triggered whenever a reminder comes up. It can be the basis for a lot of discomfort and sometimes a lot of negative emotions, such as fear and helplessness, that we can’t seem to control. These are really the emotions connected with the old experience that are being triggered.
The eye movements we use in EMDR seem to unlock the system and allow your brain to process the experience. That may be what is happening in REM, or rapid eye movement, sleep, when our most intense dreaming takes place: The eye movements appear to be involved during the processing of unconscious material. The important thing to remember is that it is your own brain that will be doing the healing and that you are the one in control. Shapiro, Francine. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Third Edition (pp. 115-116). Guilford Publications. Kindle Edition.