Debbie King Mabray
MS, LMFT, LPC, TF-CBT, C=DBT, CCTT-II, CART, TBHI

Debbie King Mabray is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Lisenced Professional Therapist,

She is Certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ,Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Anger Resolution Therapy and Telehealth. She uses a myriad of therapies in treatment; Debbie determines which approach to utilize based on what is best for the individual client. She has years of experience in narrative, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive processingm, educational, and many more.

Nutrition, stress reduction, aromatherapy, and emotional regulatory skills are utilized with the scope and practice of cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavioral therapies. When working with a client, the goal is to discover the root cause(s) of maladaptive behaviors that are contributing to the “stuckness” of the client.

Meeting the client where they are is how we begin..From this point, we conduct a battery of assessments, valid and reliable, to create an operationalized assessment outline. Working with the client, a treatment plan is created. Debbie specializes in females over 20 years old with a history of trauma. Females with a diagnosis of personality traits/disorder, such as borderline, are welcome.

Debbie bases her approach on a neurobiological famework and utilizes the assorted therapies above to intensify the relearning process. As this therapy is intensive, there is a no show fee for absences. After two, the client will be asked to leave. Our results have been positive and longterm.

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EMDR

What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders. The following organizations recognize EMDR therapy as an effective treatment:

  • American Psychiatric Association
  • American Psychological Association
  • International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  • U.K. Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense
  • The Cochran Database of Systematic Reviews
  • The World Health Organization

What its used for

  • Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias
  • Chronic illness and medical
  • Depression and bipolar disorders
  • Eating disorders
  • Greif and loss
  • Pain
  • Psychosis
  • PTSD/CPTSD
  • Sexual assualt
  • Sleep disturbance
  • Substance abuse and addiction
  • Violence and abuse

How is EMDR different?

EMDR therapy does not require talking in detail about the distressing issue or homework between sessions. EMDR supports the brain to resume its natural healing process. EMDR therapy is designed to process traumatic memories in the brain, so the person is informed by these memories but not controlled by them. Part of the therapy includes alternating eye movement, sound, or taps. For many clients, EMDR therapy can be complete in fewer sessions than other psychotherapies.

EMDR therapy can be done in-person or via virtual platforms and must be done with a properly trained and licensed mental health clinician.

Experiencing EMDR therapy

After the client and therapist discuss the client’s history, develop treatment plan, prepare for trauma treatment, and agree that EMDR reprocessing is a good fit, the client will be asked to focus on a specific event. Attention will be given to the negative image, belief, feelings, and body sensations related to this event. While the client focuses on the upsetting event the therapist will begin sets of side-to-side eye movements, sounds, or taps. The client will be guided to notice what comes after each set. There might be changes in insights, images, feelings, body sensations, and/or beliefs regarding the event, the client has full control to stop reprocessing at any point if needed. the sets of eye movements, taps, or sounds are repeated until the event become less disturbing. then, the clients will focus their attention on a positive belief that would indicate the issue was resolved. After, the client will process, and disturbance left still left in their body related to this event. Before the end of the session, the therapist supports the client to feel grounded and close the session. At the beginning of the next session the client and therapist review the work done in the past session and continue reprocessing events as needed.

How it helps with the healing process

Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stress events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). While many times traumatic experiences can be managed and resolved spontaneously, others may not be processed without help.

Stress responses are our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. when distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions mat create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories and allows normal healing to resume. the experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.