About CompassionWorks

Alison works with adults in private practice in The Woodlands, TX. She has worked in a variety of settings for over 15 years as a therapist and has special interest in working in areas of trauma, past abuse/hurts, PTSD, anxiety, stress, women’s issues, and inner resource development. She also enjoys integrating expressive arts in the therapy process and Christian integration for those requesting that perspective. Alison is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and EMDRIA Approved Trainer for EMDR, and she offers consultations for EMDR Certification and EMDR Consultants-in-Training, with both in-person and online consultations available.

Stephanie is a Licensed Professional Counselor and earned her Masters degree from Argosy University, Dallas in 2018. She is a EMDRIA approved consultant. Stephanie provided consultation for EMDRIA certification and consultants-in-training. Stephanie spent several years working with adolescents who experienced trauma and abuse. Now she works with adolescents and adults experiencing complex trauma.

<p class="p1">Jinnelle has served the South Texas community for over a decade in a variety of capacities with child welfare agencies and mental health community centers. Jinnelle has experience working with trauma survivors, children and adolescents, and adult perpetrators of domestic violence. She is counselor educator, supervisor, and doctoral level clinician. She is an EMDRIA Approved Trainer, Consultant, and Certified Therapist. In addition to her role as a counselor, Jinnelle has experience conducting home studies for private adoptions. When she is not working to help those in need, she spends her time raising her four children. As a professional counselor, Jinnelle strives to provide a safe and therapeutic space for clients who have a history of trauma or who may be facing difficulties in their life. She utilizes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)* as a treatment modality along with Relational Cultural Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to assist people in meeting their goals and overcome unique challenges.</p>

Amber holds a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Regent University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Texas and Oklahoma and holds Supervisor credential for Texas. Amber is an EMDRIA consultant and trainer. She has over a decade of experience in the trauma field in work with uniformed services, domestic violence, childhood trauma and abuse, and recent mass trauma events. Amber provides consultation for EMDRIA certification, for consultants-in-training, and supervision for LPC-Associates. Amber continues to research the benefits of EMDR therapy with a variety of populations. Her goal is to help build strong clinicians who are well versed in trauma interventions to better support their clients. Amber sees a limited number of clients with a focus on trauma work, she is also a Certified Career Counselor and Certified through Eagala to provide equine assisted therapy.

Sharon L. Walker, LCSW is in private practice in Arlington, TX and has been in the field of social work for nearly 40 years. Since 2003, Sharon has worked to specialize her practice to treating complex trauma. She is a certified and Approved Consultant in EMDR therapy. She is trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and utilizes mindfulness and body work in her practice. She is also trained in Thought Field Therapy, Play Therapy and in Clinical Hypnosis. In the past 10 years, Sharon has worked extensively with dissociation and DID including those with ritual abuse. She also works with survivors of suicide loss and facilitates Survivors of Suicide (SOS), a support group in Fort Worth. Sharon is a member of the Suicide Awareness Coalition in Tarrant County. She is also a member of EMDRIA, NASW, and the International Society on the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).

Tricia Gagnon, MS. Ed.S, RYT, LPC-S is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant with over twenty five years experience helping adults reconnect to their inner resources and purpose as they heal their trauma. She loves helping consultees feel confident with EMDR and develop their skills in treating trauma. Tricia works with adults and incorporates Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, trauma informed yoga, and somatic polyvagal approaches in recovery from PTSD, complex trauma, and dissociation. She owns a group practice in Flower Mound, Mindful Path Counseling + Wellness, and leads a monthly EMDR group for Certification, and is also open for individual consultation online. Tricia is currently accepting clients online and in person; consultees, and CITs.

Dr. Jose Carbajal attended Baylor University after his tenure in the U.S. Army, where he received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in social work, and a master’s degree in theological studies. He completed his Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington. Jose has several publications and he has conducted many professional presentations and trainings. Jose’s research focus is on the interventions clinicians use to treat trauma, neuroscience, and faith. Jose has over 15 years of clinical experience and he has extensive teaching experience, leading seminars, and workshops. His clinical specialties are trauma, sexual abuse recovery, domestic violence, and substance abuse. Dr. Carbajal is EMDR Certified, an Approved Consultant, an EMDRIA Approved Trainer in EMDR, and a CompassionWorks Lead Trainer.

I am available to meet with therapy clients on a limited basis, every other week. Contact email. As an EMDR therapist, I help people explore and identify their life-themes that are constantly running in the background. These themes are represented intrinsically by “neural networks" that are developed in the formative years and reinforced and played out over a lifetime. They are the source of PTSD symptoms such as anxiety and stress and are disruptive to having a life well-lived.  As these emotional patterns are identified, we then use EMDR processing to help resolve them.  Sometimes this can be accomplished in a few sessions, but most often it takes longer. I teach people the skill of tuning into their “felt-sense," staying with their emotions, and learning to regulate their feelings and emotions.  This is a great way to live in the present moment, responding in “real-time” to what is currently happening, as opposed to reacting to a contrived reality constructed in the mind that is being played out in apparent “real-life.” For people who want to work with me, I encourage them to buy, read and do, The Presence Process by Michael Brown.  We can then use that as a way to guide our sessions and the work we do. I help people see and experience life from a different perspective.  After all, you can’t use what got you into your current situation, to get you out of it. Location: Plano, TX  75023  (near Custer and Legacy) Fees: Counseling is provided on a “fee-for-service” or “self-pay” basis, and payment is due at the time of service. If out-of-network benefits are available, they are the responsibility of the client. Charges are as follows: - Regular session (50 minutes) $140.00; - Extended Session (80 minutes) $185.00.