Anna Maria Island, Florida

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Erin is a licensed marriage and family therapist and owner of 2 group practices in Indiana. Erin has been in practice for over 25 years beginning her career in Community Mental health, then becoming a clinical director of a residential facility community outreach for at-risk adolescents. Erin then launched her private practice Indiana Family Therapy Center, Inc. in 2008. In 2020, Erin teamed up with her business partner to open another group practice, Voyage Counseling, LLC. Erin also works with an adoption agency supervising the completion of home evaluations for adoption. In 2022, Erin launched Embrace for Impact, LLC where she provides coaching, consulting, community groups, retreats and speaking engagements. In 2023, Erin and her wife created a NonProfit called Embrace For Change Corportation. This non-profit was created to provide mental health support services to those who need financial and support services in Indianapolis, IN surrounding communities.

Embrace for Impact was born out of a passion for entrepreneurial healers and therapists with their own trauma stories. After a personal journey of owning her story of abuse and violence in her previous intimate relationship, she recognized the need for a place where healers can step out of the shame of secrecy of abuse and into the light of the strength within that it took to survive.  During this journey, she also discovered the high correlation between trauma and chronic illness and the additional complexity of treatment needs when trauma meets physical illness or injury.  As a type 1 diabetic who suffered extensive physical injury from physical and sexual assault requiring multiple surgeries and hospitalizations, she is passionate about educating our mental health and medical professionals about the complexity of working with victims/survivors of intimate partner violence and trauma.  These patients require patience, humanity, authenticity, safety, and agency at the highest level to reduce the risk of re-traumatization/revictimization through medical interventions.  

Erin empowers therapists to step into and own their stories and embrace their beautiful kaleidoscope of trauma and resilience to amplify their impact on the world. Being a therapist and a survivor of intimate partner violence does not make you a fraud or incompetent, it makes you human and capable of connecting in a very attuned way.  

Erin is a member of and a fierce advocate of the LGBTQIA+ community.  Erin is also a mother of two boys, a wife, and a chronic illness warrior.  Erin believes that it is through the owning and sharing of our own pain and healing journeys and the connections we make with others that we can have a profound impact on the world. 

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Jessica is a therapist that believes deeply in the connection between attachment, relationship, mind, body and memory.  Jessica views her clients and the world as a whole through a trauma-informed and attachment based lens. EMDR is Jessica’s main modality in the counseling office, however she integrates sand tray, Thera play, Attachment, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems and other brain and body based practices needed for holistic trauma healing. 

As an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant and Trainer In Training Jessica teaches and collaborates with clinicians all across the country and Canada. She is passionate about supporting colleagues in the early learning stages of EMDR, increasing confidence, providing support and normalizing the learning curve. She is sought out for consultation on EMDR with children and teens, attachment, dissociation, and intensives. 

Jessica is the founder and Clinical Directory of Willow Center For Healing, a group mental health private practice. The practice has become a training center for graduate level interns who desire to spend their last year in graduate school honing their clinical skills with Jessica and her staff. The entire staff are EMDR trained and most also utilize sand tray, attachment and Internal Family Systems in their holistic approach to healing. 

Jessica is also the founder of Willow Center For Hope, a non-profit focused on trauma-informed consulting and education to the community. Hope’s mission is to bring mental health awareness and trauma informed care to the community at large by teaching local professionals, front line workers and first responders about the mind body connection as well as basic trauma informed care techniques. 

Most recently Jessica developed her "Heal the Healers" EMDR Intensive Retreat for healing professionals. 

Jessica was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she currently lives with her two daughters, and a house full of plants and pets. She experienced a lot of adversity in her early childhood and young adult life.  She has 'walked the walk' and done her own deep trauma work over the last decade.