Meet Julie Ayala Chahal, LPC, SEP, EMDR
I’m Julie Ayala Chahal, a licensed counselor in Fort Worth, Texas, working with women entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, and high-achieving women who are ready for therapy to go deeper than insight alone.
You’ve worked hard to build a full life, family, career, or business. From the outside, you may look steady and capable. But internally, you may be carrying pressure, perfectionism, overthinking, or unresolved pain that still shapes how you feel and respond.
My work is about helping women like you understand 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 places where success, responsibility, or visibility are touching something deeper.
These patterns are often not random. They are showing us what is ready to be seen, understood, and shifted.
I specialize in supporting women entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, and high-achieving women who want more than surface-level coping strategies. You have already proven you can function, perform, and succeed. Now the work is about shifting the patterns underneath, so your inner world can begin to feel more steady, aligned, and true to who you are.
I am not a passive counselor. My work is focused, depth-oriented, and experiential. Many of the women I work with have already tried to think through the pattern, understand it, or analyze why it is happening. But some patterns do not shift through insight alone.
That is why I work with the brain, body, and nervous system directly, using Somatic Experiencing®, advanced EMDR training, and precise neuro-subconscious work to help access the deeper patterns that have been hard to shift.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I offer individual therapy to women specializing in Anxiety, Trauma & EMDR, Somatic Therapy, Relationship Patterns, Therapy for Entrepreneurs & Executives, and Therapy Intensives. I have advanced training and years of clinical experience using EMDR and somatic therapy to support trauma, stress, and subconscious pattern work.
If you have any questions or want more information, feel free to email me directly at julie@thecounselingcollectivefw.com. Sessions are 90 minutes at $500.
What I Believe About Therapy
I believe therapy should help you change, not just understand yourself better.
Insight matters, but insight alone does not always shift the pattern. Many of the women I work with have already thought about it, analyzed it, and tried to figure out why it keeps happening.
I believe the body often tells the truth before the mind has words.
The tension, urgency, shutdown, anxiety, or pressure you feel may be pointing to something your nervous system is still holding.
I believe the goal is not to become someone else.
It is to become more fully yourself. More steady. More honest. More connected to what is true for you.
That is the kind of therapy I care about.
