dr. marianne dumond

lpc-s, emdr, cfrc, cctp, eDd

Between stimulus and response there is a space and, in that space, lies our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” – Viktor Frankl

About Marianne “Doc” 

I began my career as a psychotherapist over twenty years ago, and have worked extensively with individuals and groups troubled by chronic mental wellness issues, post-traumatic stress, self-medication problems, and relationship and communication difficulties.

I've worked with populations who are often stigmatized by Post Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI), depression, anxiety, relationship problems, anger management issues, and self-medication problems. Having worked many years with Veterans, Active Duty, First Responders, and their family members. My brother served in the Air Force, my daughter in law served in Army Reserves and also worked as a dispatch officer for the Arlington Police Department, and I have a cousin who stormed the beaches of Normandy (I'm the youngest of 31 grandchildren). 

I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPCS), a Certified First Responder Counselor (CFRC), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) certified and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP).

I went to Texas Wesleyan University for both Bachelor's and Master's level work in art and Counseling Psychology respectively. I earned my Doctorate through Argosy University and my dissertation was titled Solution Art Finding Recovery focusing on longitudinal results with Draw a Story (DAS) a creative assessment developed by Dr. Rawley Silver (2002), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Recovery Bridge Drawings 2013, the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA). These assessments were completed at intake, midpoint (6 weeks) and endpoint of therapy (12 weeks).

I now live in the DFW with my husband and two dogs, Thor and Loki – it’s their bed, they just let us sleep in it!

Approach to therapy

I firmly believe that men and women who serve our local communities and nation have the strengths and capabilities to work through problems they face. Post-traumatic stress is a natural response to abnormal experiences, and there are moments in life where “words just don’t work”; my approach is to build upon this through an integrated form of counseling and creative expression.

We will work withTime Lines, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) uncovering your strengths and assets that have gone overlooked, forgotten or undiscovered and mobilize them to help you reach your goals for our work. You drive the train on this venture, these are your goals, so feel free to blow the horn as much and as often as you like. There are occasions when it feels good to make noise as we get better. 

It is my covenant to be present with you in your moment of need with all that I am as a counselor, a human being, and an artist.  We will work together to create anew from the past, to rebuild your life with all the respect and self-worth that you deserve. This is that path that I was led to follow, and as such, it is my heartfelt promise to help you help yourself.  I know deep within my soul that this is the reason I survived all the muck and the mire of life gone by: to be here with you in this moment. I would gladly go through it all over again to fulfill this part of my journey. I am just a visitor in your life and I pray with everything that I am that you find our time worthwhile. 

Book

Recommendations

  • Living Untethered by Michael A Singer

  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

  • The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

  • The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Services

  • We work as a team to define your goals and the route we will take to achieve them. We install a lot of resources before we move into reprocessing. My goals are to help you help yourself, which I am certain you can achieve. My clients primarily include First Responders, Active Duty Military, Veterans, and their family members.

  • EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.

    It is an Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model with targets (issues you define) through Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) that works a lot like REM sleep when our eyes move back and forth, right and left.

    BLS can be through eye movements, pulsars you hold in your hands, tones played through a headset, tapping, or a combination thereof.

    EMDR engages the right and left hemispheres of our brains, creating new neuronal pathways linking pieces of traumatic experiences and simply paying itself forward reducing the volatility of the next target we work on.

    EMDR can bring up painful, volatile memories and can be rather uncomfortable to work through. It can also bring relief and release from burdens you’ve carried around way too long.

    • 2 hours to complete the assessment.

    • Once scoring and results are complete, you will be booked for a consultation session to review results and recommendations for counseling services.

  • Chemical Use Assessment:

    • $250

    • 1.5 hours to complete plus an additional 45 minutes for the counselor to complete scoring and write up results, which will be emailed to you.

  • Together we work in an intensive format to more rapidly address the issues you would like to work on. Our work will be tailored to your specific goals and needs.

    My specialties include trauma, complex trauma, moral injury, self-medication, and symptoms that accompany these issues.

    Change can happen rapidly when working in an intensive format. We work for consecutive hours (5-8 per day with breaks to decompress and for lunch) four days in a row mobilizing strengths and assets that have gone overlooked, undiscovered or forgotten to help you reach your goals. We accomplish in a short amount of time what often takes months or years of hourly sessions, which can be and is often much more expensive.

    I have witnessed how remarkable EMDR is for my clients! Witnessing their progress continues to make me more confident that I can help my clients reduce or eliminate their pain.

    Please reach out to me by phone or email to discuss this option
    further.

    Fees for Intensives are as follows:

    • $225 for first 50-minute consultation

    • 4 days at 6 hours a day prorated at $4000, a $800 discounted price.

    • If we finish early we will round up to the nearest half day.

Continuing education units (CEUs) completed

  • Military Informed Care

  • 31st Annual International Trauma Conference

  • EMDR Therapy Protocols for Early Intervention and Ongoing Traumatic Stress

  • Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma

  • Trauma is Broken Connection: Healing Strategies for Attachment Injury and Relational Trauma

  • Developmental Trauma

  • EMDR and Hypnosis

  • Unifying Hypnosis and EMDR with Trauma and Addiction Therapy

  • IFS with Hypnosis

  • Somatic Experiencing Trauma

  • Polyvagal Theory: Claiming Our Evolutionary Heritage as a Social Species

  • EMDR + IFS PARTS Protocol an IFS-Informed Approach to EMDR

  • 911 for First Responders

  • Master your brain: Neuroscience for Personal Development

  • Utilization of EMDR with Police and First Responders

  • The Challenge of Co-occurring Disorders: Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse and Trauma

  • 2018 North Texas Health Care System Suicide Prevention Symposium

  • Group Crisis Intervention

  • Assisting Individual in Crisis