Healing Journey Counseling Services

Trauma Therapy and Couples Counseling in Temple, TX

Reflecting on your life can be difficult, especially when you realize that fulfillment and happiness have been absent for too long. The weight of frequent anxiety and depressed moods can feel overwhelming, and the intrusion of negative feelings and memories into your present can disrupt your peace. Perhaps you’re grappling with a relationship marked by recurring conflicts, and despite attempts at couples therapy, lasting improvement remains elusive. Maybe individual efforts to move on or address underlying issues have proven unsuccessful.

If this resonates with you, understand that you don’t have to carry this burden alone. You deserve to experience joy and contentment. It’s time to explore new avenues and find solutions that truly work for you. Let’s connect and collaboratively discover a path towards a more fulfilling and happier life. Take the first step towards positive change today.

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We offer in-person and telehealth counseling services. It is important to us that our clients have the convenience and comfort of choosing how they want to conduct a session. With modern technology, it has never been easier.

In-Person or Telehealth

Convenient options for client sessions.

We understand it may be difficult to find time for a therapy session during typical business hours. That’s why we offer flexible scheduling, including evenings and weekends.

After Hours & Weekends

Convenient scheduling.

The client portal makes signing documents, appointment management, and billing a breeze.

Client Portal

Appointments and other features at your fingertips.

Aleksandra Bessent

ECFMG-cert. MD, MA, LPC, NCC

Aleksandra Bessent is the founder and therapist of Healing Journey Counseling Services. She brings compassion, excellence, and unique expertise to the counseling field using her advanced knowledge to address client’s emotional needs. Aleksandra is an ECFMG-certified Medical Doctor, Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor.

Aleksandra is uniquely qualified to provide psychotherapy to individuals with various mental health issues, as she possesses extensive training in psychiatry, behavioral science, neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and medicine. She is passionate about helping her clients explore the root cause of their issues and effectively address them. Aleksandra is trained in multiple evidence-based treatment modalities (EMDR, CBT, DBT, Gottman Therapy) and uses an integrative counseling approach to help her clients achieve their therapeutic goals. Aleksandra provides a caring, non-judgmental, accepting environment that fosters client growth and change.

View Aleksandra’s profile on Psychology Today.

Therapeutic Process

The therapeutic process encompasses several key components. It involves support from a therapist, exploring the root causes of issues and learning new skills, and achieving goals, which ultimately changes behaviors, feelings, and relationships, fostering a more fulfilled life.

Establishment of Therapeutic Relationship

I believe in your wisdom and motivation to liberate yourself from past trauma and will encourage you with genuine care, curiosity, and respect.

Achievement of Goals

I will meet you exactly where you are and support you through the therapy process with practical evidence-based tools and unconditional positive regard.

Identification of Issues and Tharapeutic Goal

I will explore your life story to help identify your unique strengths and the root cause of the issues you would like to improve/resolve.

Maintain Progress

Addressing the root cause of the issues will help you to significantly improve or completely resolve your struggles.

Therapy Services

Individual Therapy

Embark on a transformative journey to explore your life story within a supportive and caring environment, designed to foster self-discovery and growth. Together, we’ll identify your unique strengths and increase your awareness of underlying issues, uncovering their root causes to facilitate lasting healing. Through evidence-based treatments like EMDR, IFS, and more, you’ll gain effective tools to address these challenges, learning new skills to implement daily, ultimately creating a life you deserve.

EMDR Intensives

EMDR Intensives condense months of therapy into focused day sessions, reducing overall treatment time. EMDR is an evidence-based approach to trauma treatment and is especially effective for single-incident events. Ideal for existing clients due to pre-established rapport and trauma history knowledge. This approach proves to be more cost effective and accommodating to busy schedules by circumventing weekly check-ins and session interruptions.

Couples Counseling

As a therapist trained in the evidence-based Gottman Method, I can help you identify your relationship’s inherent strengths while pinpointing areas where growth is most needed. By effectively addressing communication breakdowns, diminished emotional intimacy, and recurring conflicts, I equip couples with practical skills they can implement daily, ensuring a healthier and more fulfilling partnership long after therapy concludes.

Couples Intensives

Investing in your relationship is an investment in your well-being. My practice offers a concrete path forward, utilizing the Gottman Method, an evidence-based approach proven to strengthen relationships. This condensed format allows us to immediately target both strengths and challenges, eliminating unnecessary check-ins and distractions. By capitalizing on momentum, you’ll learn, practice, and integrate new skills more effectively, leading to faster, tangible progress, accommodating even the busiest schedules with flexible follow-up support.

What is Therapy?

Therapy is a collaborative journey, where your active participation leads to personal and relational growth. While deeply rewarding, this process can be challenging, as growth demands time, consistent effort, and navigating moments of discomfort. Know that I will be there to support you throughout your healing, helping you maintain perspective and identify pathways to achieve your therapeutic goals.

Why Healing Journey?

Uniquely Qualified: Benefit from a counselor with a medical degree and extensive psychiatric training, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of your needs.
Evidence-Based Therapies: Access proven modalities like EMDR, Gottman Therapy, and DBT for effective results.
Safe & Compassionate Space: Experience a judgement-free environment that fosters deep exploration and healing.
Intensive Therapy Options: Accelerate your progress with EMDR intensives and specialized couples intensives.
Convenient & Accessible: Choose in-person, telehealth, or hybrid sessions with flexible scheduling, including weekends and evenings.
Transparent & Hassle-Free: Enjoy a private pay practice with clear pricing and superbills available, eliminating insurance complexities.

Schedule a Therapy Session

(254) 224-5202

616 N Main St. Suite 103

Temple, TX 76501

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