Integrative Psychological Services

07/23/2025

07/22/2025

We are back with some more “meet the team” posts this week

Meet Ashley Shea….clinician and autism specialist

06/24/2025

Today, we want you to meet AND welcome our newest clinician Emma!

Emma has just joined our team and we are stoked to have her. She is a CSW and works with adults and transition aged youth. She specializes in working with trauma, and as a Certified First Responser Associate, with first responders and their families.

Emma is accepting new clients! To learn about her and/or to schedule with her, head to our website or text/call us at 270-217-5218.

06/23/2025

Happy Monday! It’s time for another staff spotlight. Meet Juanya’!

06/17/2025

Next up in on our meet the team series….Mariana! LPCA, clinician, and equine extraordinaire.

06/12/2025

Today’s staff spotlight is on Cailen…one of our clinical interns (but she is graduated and sits for her exam very soon so ALMOST CSW!)

06/03/2025

Today we want you to meet Liv…one of our therapists and LPCC-S 💫

05/30/2025

EMDR is one of the most highly requested therapy modalities we get. Heavily researched and shown to be effective in reducing distressing symptoms and feelings associated with difficult experiences that tend to stick with us and cause rippling pain…EMDR is a great option to integrate into therapy, especially when other methods just dont seem to be working.

EMDR is considered an experiential therapy…we move beyond just talking about what’s happened to you, to active engagement with the emotions and processes that come up as you re-experience hard things in the safe container we provide, to facilitate healing.

6 of our clinicians are formally trained in EMDR for both adults and kiddos (and more to come). And if you don’t feel like we are a good fit for you, we can refer you to other EMDR therapists in our community.

If you’re interested in trying EMDR, reach out to us through our website or call/text us at 270-217-5218.

05/29/2025

Next in staff roll call…

Therapist Ashley Sanders, LCSW

05/27/2025

Today we want to introduce you to Dr. Lauren Barks. She is our clinical director and an LCSW

05/22/2025

We’ve grown a lot os as team over the last year, and want to introduce ourselves a more personal way. We love connecting with you, and we want you to get a feel for who we are as humans, too.

We are going to be sharing our “Meet the Team” posts over the next several weeks, telling you what we love about what we do.

So to start it off….meet Dr. Bree, our founder and Licensed Psychologist.

05/20/2025

You probably don’t want to hear this…but just analyzing your emotions won’t make them go away.

You have to actually feel them.

Knowledge is important, yes. It’s helpful to understand why we feel the way we do about certain things, why we react and respond in the ways that we do. But we can get so caught up in the intellectualization of our feelings, that we avoid actually feeling them… a necessary component to processing and working through. And what we resist, persists.

Knowing isn’t enough….you have to have experience too. It’s like reading a manual on how to ride a bike, but never actually getting on a bike and riding.

The next time you find yourself stuck in your head about your feelings, try this reframe: not what does this feelings say, but how does this feeling feel? Shift from the language of your mind (thought) to the language of your body (sensation).

Notice the sensations and location in your body…

Where is the feeling? In your stomach, chest, head, hands?
How does the feeling feel? Does it feel sharp, fluttery, tingly, knotted, tight?
Is it big or small?
Does it feel hot, cold, frozen?
Does it have a color?

See if you can stay connected to the actual feeling in your body instead of what your brain is saying about it… even if for just a few minutes. It might be a little uncomfortable, we know. Just breathe through and into it. Ride the wave of it.

You may be surprised by how much quicker and easier your feelings move through when they have your attention, rather than being explained away.

Go slow, be gentle with yourself. It may be a new way of experiencing your world…but it may also just be exactly what you’ve needed.