EMDR & Somatic Therapy for WOMEN Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Leaders in Fort Worth
For women carrying pressure, perfectionism, overthinking, and patterns that have not fully shifted through talk therapy.
Counseling for women who are ready to feel more steady, more present, and less driven by the pressure to hold it all together.
You’ve built a full life. You’re capable, responsible, and used to being the one who figures things out.
But pressure, overthinking, people-pleasing, or old relationship patterns can start to take up more space than you want them to.
I work with women entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders who are ready for therapy that goes deeper than insight, understanding, and coping. Through EMDR and Somatic Experiencing®, we work with the brain, body, and nervous system so change can happen at the level where the pattern is held.
Over time, this can create more steadiness, clearer decisions, and more room to feel like yourself again.
My work often supports women navigating pressure, trauma patterns, relationship stress, visibility, leadership, responsibility, and the internal patterns that have not fully shifted through traditional talk therapy.
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This work is often a fit for women who are
Entrepreneurs and business owners
Executives and leaders
Professionals carrying significant responsibility
Women navigating visibility, growth, or leadership pressure
Creatives, athletes, and performers
Women balancing ambition, relationships, and family life
How This Work Is Different
We do not stop at insight, understanding or coping. You can know why a pattern exists and still stay stuck in it.
1. Identify what you’re ready to change
We focus on what’s currently showing up — stress, overthinking, relationship patterns — and bring it into awareness in a direct, focused way.
2. Work at the level where it was formed
I use a unique individually tailored blend of EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, where we we work with the brain, body, and nervous system to help the pattern were originally created.
3. Change begins to happen naturally
The integration happens inside the session, so new responses can begin to feel more natural outside of it. As the pattern shifts, the pressure to force change isn’t there. What you’ve been trying to change starts to move more easily on its own.
Session Length
Sessions are structured in 90-minute formats to allow for deeper, more focused work and more lasting change over time.
Learn more about why I offer 90-minute sessions here.
Meet Julie Ayala Chahal, LPC, SEP
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Fort Worth, Texas.
I work with women entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders who are used to holding a lot in their work, relationships, families, and within themselves.
I know this pattern from the inside, too. I’ve done my own work around tying identity to success, looking for safety in achievement, and learning to trust myself more deeply.
My work is not about giving you another way to manage it all or teaching you how to push through. You are probably already pretty good at that.
Instead, I help you pay attention to what your life is reflecting back to you. The pressure that keeps building. The relationship pattern that keeps repeating. The anxiety that shows up when things slow down. The friction you feel when you are trying to grow, rest, speak up, or let yourself be seen.
These places are often not random. They are showing us what is ready to grow and change.
If this resonates, I’m glad you’re here.
If you’d like to learn more about me and how I work, you can visit the About page.
LOOKING FOR COACHING?
Some entrepreneurs and leaders are not looking for therapy, but want focused support around business, leadership, visibility, decision-making, and the internal patterns shaping how they build.
My coaching work through SHIFT by Julie Chahal is separate from therapy and is not a mental health service.
