RECLAIMING
Your Life
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by Diane Ciarloni | photo courtesy of Stephanie Southard
umultuous times tore through society in recent years. Some families fell apart because of the direction a spouse or other relative cast their political ballot. A pandemic hit, forcing partners into close confinement with one another. Every annoying habit once displayed only now-and-then became a 24/7 spotlight focus. Add children to the mix. Maybe another relative.
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therapist and client work as a team to find a target, static spot for the eye to focus. The target spot corresponds with a specific emotional response/incident. Both are considered powerful therapies for rapid, significant progress. “My heart wants every client here to receive hope and healing from any one of our counselors. Our intention is to honor each person wherever he or she is the moment that door opens. We’re all Christian believers, but that’s not brought up unless a client expresses a desire for spiritual counseling. More people are joining our ‘processing’ groups, where we learn to speak from a place of authenticity instead of emptiness. How, for example, does anxiety make you feel? My dream always was to have a full-service clinic
where I and like-minded therapists provide a safe place for people to express their pain and find healing. We want them to feel valued and understood.” In other words, a place to go for a life redeemed from hurt. Many people fell apart. The backs of
therapist of nearly 30 years, founded
final straws, not necessarily because of
counselors working with her in an
camels across the country broke from
the pandemic or the quarantine or the
political upheaval or the annoying habit, but because of those things scratching
the scabs covering emotional and mental scars and wounds suffered months or
Redeemed Life in 2018. She has 13
environment that utilizes proven, cuttingedge mental health practices such as
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
years or even decades earlier.
“EMDR changed my entire practice,”
Many people, even more than usual, felt
of accessing a trauma, and through eye
pain. Fortunately, the social stigma of
seeking relief from that pain at places
such as Redeemed Life Counseling, LLC in
Argyle isn’t quite as intense as it once was. Described as a place of hope and
healing, Michelle Fitzhugh, a practicing
Fitzhugh said. “Basically, it’s a method
movement, desensitizing that trauma so it becomes a memory but without the attached pain. It helps us go into the
brain’s non-verbal information storage area. All our counselors are EMDR-
trained. We also use Brainspotting where
940.222.8552 | RedeemedLifeCounseling.com | 415 South US Hwy 377. Ste. 102 • Argyle, TX 76226
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