Amarillo Professional Counseling and Consultation PLLC

06/02/2025

This is a wonderful resource in our community. You deserve care. 🫶

You're invited to join us for a free trauma-informed yoga session this week—a gentle practice centered on healing, empowerment, and inner peace.

With both in-person and virtual options available, we’re making it easy for you to show up in whatever way feels right for you.

Whether you're navigating stress, grief, or trauma, this class offers a supportive space to move at your own pace and reconnect with your body.

05/01/2025

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Here at Amarillo Professional Counseling and Consultation, our clinicians are trained in evidence-based approaches such as EMDR and treatment of complex cases. Our clinicians have the tools to help clients move beyond survival and into healing.

Please remember that it’s not a weakness to share your burdens. You do not have to do it alone.

In every story, there is strength.

04/03/2025

Did you know APCC offers comprehensive and objective ADHD testing for adults and children? You matter and your symptoms deserve care. Visit our site to learn more about what we offer. 🫶

ADHD TESTING & ASSESSMENT: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts individuals and families throughout their life span. At Amarillo Profess…

01/28/2025

Want to know more about how we at APCC treat PTS and complex post traumatic stress? Check out the winter issue of Panhandle Health to read an article authored by Elizabeth Clark.

We love what we do and are honored to walk with you!

05/07/2024

APCC at the Downtown Women’s Center Spring Luncheon. We love love love DWC and are so grateful for all they do for the community. We are honored to work alongside them. 🫶

05/03/2024

✨Exciting news!! APCC is now offering ADHD testing for adults.

We are utilizing D-REF Adult, Brown EF/A scales, and the ASRS-v1.1. These will be utilized to create a diagnostic report for clients to take to their doctors for medication management or for accommodations for different environments. These objectives tests have great reliability and validity as well as suggested interventions for the individual.

Contact Chellsea today to set up an appointment. you can call or email her directly at 806-680-3695 or chellseasparks@amarillo-counseling.com.

04/30/2024

This is a great resource for educators, parents, or anyone who works with kids!

04/13/2024

I love these words from our friends at Pecan Creek Ranch:

“Rest is a privilege of those who can access felt safety.

While we need good rest to function well, the ability to rest well isn’t guaranteed.

To be able to rest well, for your nervous system to shift into a state of rest, you must be able to feel safe physically, emotionally, socially, psychologically, and spiritually.

Felt safety is NOT the same as physical safety. They don’t always go hand-in-hand. In fact, for some people, they have never even been in the same room together.

You can objectively know you are safe, and still not feel safe. You can have all your needs met, in a comfortable environment free of threats to your physical wellbeing, in a loving, caring relationship and still not FEEL safe.

You can be objectively unsafe, yet feel safe. You could be on a chaotic rollercoaster ride of drama and emotions, where your wellbeing and livelihood are on the line and uncertain while FEELING safe.

Both of these scenarios can be a result of developmental trauma, which is a catalogue of experiences that caused your body and mind to adapt and develop in a way that doesn’t continue to work well for you when you are no longer in those experiences.

If you are having trouble resting, ask yourself, when was the last time you truly FELT safe?

What does FELT safety look like for you?

Do you know if you have ever experienced it? Is it ok or safe for you to rest?

Can you only rest when life is going your way?

Can you only rest when your life is chaotic and overwhelming?”

03/23/2024

If you are neurodivergent, love someone who is, or if you care about people in general, take a look at this post from TWLOHA. You matter ♥️.

03/18/2024

Forgiveness is late stage work and not always a necessary part of therapy. Safety must be prioritized prior to forgiveness, otherwise abusive systems will be further enabled. Resist the temptation to make moral judgements around someone’s necessary and innate survival responses. Your safety matters. Wherever you are in your journey, you are enough.

What some refer to as unforgiving, is often the only barrier of protection a survivor has to honor what they’ve endured. No one knows better than that survivor that their perpetrator is waiting for any sign of release to strike again. For many, forgiveness is not the answer.

When a traumatized person is told to forgive & forget, they are being told to avoid healing. The offender does not hold the impacts of the trauma in their body. The younger version of us does. In order to heal from trauma, we must go where it is stored & heal it there.

03/14/2024

Here at APCC we specialize in treating trauma across the lifespan. Our clinicians have advanced training to adapt to a client’s developmental level. Check out our new blog by Samantha on adapting and facilitating EMDR with children.

By Samantha Gamboa, LPC Associate Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing is an eight-step process that utilizes bilateral stimulation (BLS). BLS is the process of alternatively stimulating the l…