Adoption, Foster Care, & Attachment Wounds
Belonging and repair
Specialties
What we support, and how the work unfolds.
Areas of Care describe what the practice supports. Therapeutic Methods describe how the work may be approached.
Treatment is tailored to each person’s age, goals, capacity, and what the nervous system can hold.
Areas of Care
What the practice supports.
A brief look at the concerns people bring to Texarkana Counseling Collective. The About page describes who the practice supports; the methods below describe how the work itself can unfold.
Trauma & Chronic Dysregulation
When the body stays on alert
Grief & Loss
No clean timeline
Help for the Helper
Holding other people's pain
Women's Issues
Whole-person care
Life Transitions
In between chapters
Creative & Performance Blocks
When expression gets stuck
Anxiety & Depression
Heavy days
Shame & Perfectionism
When enough never feels enough
Therapeutic Methods
How the work can unfold.
These are treatment methods and training areas Texarkana Counseling Collective may draw from depending on age, goals, capacity, and what feels safe. No single method fits everyone, and no method is ever forced.
Focused processing
Brainspotting
Imagine those moments when you get lost in thought. You are staring off, thoughts moving quickly — so many in two minutes that it would take twenty to explain them. That is brainspotting in its most natural sense. We do it all the time.
Therapeutically, we focus this innate capacity by pairing it with body awareness and identifying specific eye positions, called brainspots, that correlate with unprocessed emotional experiences. This lets the work move gently past cognitive defenses and engage the nervous system directly, supporting an effective and efficient path toward healing.
When it feels too hard to re-hash it all, brainspotting gives you permission to talk as little or as much as you would like. Ester Belshe-Anderson and Brittani Trumble are both certified in Brainspotting.
Related resources →Body-aware
Somatic Processing
Somatic work is body-aware counseling. Instead of only talking about a story, it pays attention to cues, protective responses, tension, shutdown, bracing, and the body's signals of safety or threat.
The goal is never to force intensity. The work supports regulation, increases capacity, and helps the body process what it has been carrying in manageable steps.
Related resources →Nervous-system based
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body based approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders. SE brings together psychology, physiology, and biology in a bottom-up approach — we don't start with thinking, but with the natural, primitive parts of the brain that direct the things we never stop to think about: breathing, bracing, sweating, and so on.
We don't come out of a traumatic experience unscathed. While our brain may know an event is over, our body doesn't always get the memo — it is still fighting to protect you. Looking through the lens of the nervous system, SE works with your physiology to heal and find safety within itself again.
Ester Belshe-Anderson and Brittani Trumble are Advanced Level Students in Somatic Experiencing.
Related resources →Children
Play Therapy
“Play is the language and toys are the words.” — Dr. Garry Landreth, pioneer of play therapy.
When adults feel stuck, they can meet with a counselor and talk it out. Kids don't always have the words or the capacity to express themselves as easily. Play is the language of children, and that is how we meet them therapeutically — a fun and safe environment for children to process their world and their experiences through creative play.
In this way, children build confidence, learn to manage their emotions, navigate the complexities of relationships, and process life challenges or deeper traumas.
Trauma-informed
EMDR
EMDR is based on the Adaptive Information Processing model, which holds that the body and mind are designed to naturally heal from both physical and psychological distress. Sometimes that natural process isn't possible because something is stuck — the way a splinter keeps a cut from closing. Reprocessing the stuck point lets the body resume its natural healing of integration and learning.
EMDR's three-pronged approach works with the past (clearing negative experiences), the present (reprocessing present-day triggers), and the future (reinforcing positive outcomes). A main component is rhythmic side-to-side bilateral stimulation — think of the natural rhythm of running, drumming, or swimming.
At Texarkana Counseling Collective, EMDR-informed work stays grounded in safety, stabilization, and the client's capacity. Ester Belshe-Anderson is EMDR trained.
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