If you feel stuck and cannot seem to find your way, we would like to walk beside you and help you find a fulfilling path for your life. If you have tried traditional therapies, but continue to struggle, we can work together to help you gain insight into negative patterns that affect your future. We use a variety of research based therapy approaches.
We can personalize an approach which will help you discover behaviors, perceptions, and emotions that may be keeping you from experiencing a meaningful life and walking in peace. If you're looking for extra support through a challenging situation, or you are just ready to walk in a new direction in your life, call us.
We can personalize an approach which will help you discover behaviors, perceptions, and emotions that may be keeping you from experiencing a meaningful life and walking in peace. If you're looking for extra support through a challenging situation, or you are just ready to walk in a new direction in your life, call us.
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Hi, I'm Denise Pounds and I'm excited you have found my page. I have been a Licensed Professional Counselor in Amarillo, TX. I love working with individuals and couples and helping them transform their lives. I realize it takes a great deal of courage to decide to begin the counseling process, to walk into my office, and to explore difficult issues.
If you are unable to resolve problems, and just feel misunderstood, then couples counseling can help. Often couples become "stuck" in conversations and cannot seem to resolve any issues that are creating disconnection in their marriage. In the safe environment of the therapists office, many times the blocks in communication can be resolved.
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) is a short-term, scientifically supported therapy that helps people get to the heart of their problems quickly and create lasting positive changes in their relationships. Developed by Sue Johnson, it is one of the most effective approaches to marriage and couples therapy.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a short-term treatment approach whose goal is the reconnection between partners. EFT, developed by Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg, is based on John Bowlby's Attachment research over 50 years ago. Bowbly found that humans and higher primate animals appeared to have an innate need to feel attached to and comforted by significant others.
Social Anxiety Disorder is when you feel overwhelming worry and self-consciousness about everyday social situations. You fixate about others judging you or on being embarrassed or ridiculed. A Phobia is a feeling of intense fear of a specific object or situation, such as heights or flying. The fear goes beyond what's appropriate and may cause you to avoid ordinary situations.
