Butterfly Effect Counseling & Consultation Center

Our next Confidence group is coming up! You've done the work to create space to build yourself into your new, so let's do it!

Tired of traditional weekly therapy?
Frustrated with the start-stop of it all?

An intensive may be just the thing you're looking for. It's the extra push you need to allow your system time to do what it's designed to do.

Don't be thrown off by the price. The level of depth and clearing out of that stuff, or building into your performance is worth it's weight in gold. I've witnessed it countless times during my intensives and continue to be blown away.

Oh, and you don't have to be FROM Texas to do an intensive with me....your feet just have to be IN Texas to do an intensive with me. Folks fly in and drive in from all over.

Are you ready???? Snap that QR code.

Check out my blog post where I discuss trauma, talk therapy and brain/body based modalities.

Unraveling Trauma: Exploring the Body-Brain Connection Beyond Talk Therapy I've been in this field for a minute, and what I'm realizing is so many people don't understand the brain-body connection, so I'm hoping this blog will start the wheels turning to help you gain a better understanding, and why somatic, brain/body based therapies may be more in line to obtaining heali...

What an honor to be recognized for my contribution to the Richardson community and abroad.

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Butterfly Effect Counseling & Consultation Center Receives 2022 Best of Richardson Award

Richardson Award Program Honors the Achievement

RICHARDSON October 18, 2022 -- Butterfly Effect Counseling & Consultation Center has been selected for the 2022 Best of Richardson Award in the Psychotherapist category by the Richardson Award Program.

Each year, the Richardson Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Richardson area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2022 Richardson Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Richardson Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About Richardson Award Program

The Richardson Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Richardson area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

The Richardson Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.

SOURCE: Richardson Award Program

Registration is open, but limited to 10 participants. Register on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sticks-n-stones-six-week-sister-circle-tickets-440528642027

New Blog Alert! Can negative thoughts and affirmations co-exist? Inquiring minds want to know!

Take a read, and download some pretty cool affirmations - no email required, lol. Happy reading!
https://www.butterflyeffectccc.com/post/positive-affirmations-and-negative-thoughts-can-they-co-exist

Your body is a temple. It houses both positive and negative memories. When negative experiences are overtaken by the positive, it can cause you to disconnect from your body intentionally.
When your system carries shame, guilt, and the pain of experiences, it can disconnect you from your body so you can survive. But surviving is not the same as thriving.

Sometimes you need a gentle way of reconnecting with yourself and your temple.

This audio meditation entitled Me, My, Mine, is a way to help you re-connect with you.

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I love when I get the opportunity to provide education about mental health.

Take a listen to this podcast, where I share my journey, Brainspotting, menyal health myths, and other tips!

Ep.5-Shelly Bates, LPC- The Black Bag Therapist Today I talk with Shelly Bates, LPC aka The Black Bag Therapist. We talk about Body Sounder Grounder (BSG) and the way Shelly use them in their practice. We also discuss Brainspotting, and being a BIPOC therapist in the Practice and Business.

Your body holds the energy of your experiences. In layman's terms you can call it a stress response. It is a normal part of the autonomic nervous system.

But when that event overwhelms your system it can cause you to become stuck - the energy becomes stuck. It may show up as anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc. The experience shows up as a body sensations that are attached to the memory, whether you remember it or not.

This is why Brainspotting and EMDR are the two modalities that I use with clients, whether in individual sessions or intensives.

I don't need to know more - your body already knows the story. My goal is to hold space with you as you allow your system to do what it has been designed to do naturally, but for your system being overwhelmed.

Let's work together to help you release those things held in the body.