The Counseling Center of Texas

08/21/2025

🧠 The Long Haul of Healing

Trauma doesn’t always fade with time. For many, its effects linger—quietly shaping emotions, behaviors, relationships, and the body’s sense of safety.

📊 A study on 9/11 responders found that the median time to meaningful PTSD symptom improvement was 8.9 years (Mann et al. [2025]). That’s nearly a decade of living in survival mode.

And this isn’t limited to large-scale events. Chronic trauma—like childhood adversity, systemic oppression, or relational wounds—can also lead to long-lasting nervous system dysregulation if left untreated.

💡 But healing is possible. And it doesn’t have to take 9 years.
EMDR therapy offers a research-backed way to help clients access, process, and integrate unresolved trauma—at the pace their system can handle.

📚 Whether you’re just beginning or deepening your EMDR journey, our trainings can help you support long-term healing in your clients.

🔗 See upcoming EMDR trainings at compassionworks.com

07/19/2025

Before George Lucas created Star Wars, before Marvel made a multiverse, there was Joseph Campbell, the mythologist who cracked the code behind every epic tale ever told.

His discovery was “The Hero’s Journey.” A universal template where a reluctant hero leaves home, faces trials, meets mentors, slays inner dragons, and returns transformed.

From Odysseus to Luke Skywalker to Harry Potter, they all follow the arc of the “Hero’s Journey.”

But Campbell didn’t just chart the stories of gods and heroes…

He taught us how to live them.

Here’s one of his most powerful truths:

“How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god.’ So what makes you enthusiastic? Follow that thing. That’s been my advice to young people who ask me, ‘What should I do?’ I taught once in a boys’ prep school. This one wants to study art, this one poetry, this one anthropology. But dad says study law; that’s where the money is. And you know what my answer would be — go where your enthusiasm is. I have a little word: follow your bliss. That’s where your life is.”

04/18/2025

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NYLEAP.org

02/22/2025

I've decided to step out of my comfort zone and write my own weekly column. The main focuses will be on Mental Health and the concept of Equity. Give it a look if you are so inclined and thank you for your continued support.

The Cost of Privatization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and What It Means for a Just Society

02/20/2025

Republicans are proposing deep cuts to Medicaid to finance tax cuts and other priorities. Pushback is coming not only from Democrats, but also from hospitals that rely on revenue from the program.

02/04/2025

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01/20/2025

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