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Fundamental Foundations Counseling Center

Consultation & Evaluations

Our counseling consultation offers professional guidance to address specific concerns or challenges. Evaluations involve a systematic assessment of an individuals’ mental health and emotional well-being, and overall progress.

Individual Counseling

Is a dynamic interaction between client and therapist, that fosters trust, yields support and guidance while offering strategies to address challenges, enhance self-awareness, and promote life wellness in a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space.

Couples, Marriage & Relationship Counseling

A collaborative therapeutic approache used to help partners navigate relationship challenges, enhance communications, and develop healthier patterns of interaction.

Children, Adolescents & Family Counseling

The unique needs of youth and their families encompass a variety of layers.  Through this collaborative process we work to empower children and teens with life tools, strengthen familial bonds, support development and facilitate a nurturing and comfortable environment. 

EMDR Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful psychotherapeutic technique known for its effectiveness in treating trauma by facilitating the processing of distressing memories. Through guided eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps individuals reprocess traumatic experiences, reducing emotional distress and fostering adaptive coping mechanisms.

Christian Counseling Support

A holistic approach that integrates psychological principles with a faith, and an understanding of how God divinely designed us to heal in mind, body, and spirit. We provide individuals with a faith-based perspective on mental health and personal growth. This form of counseling can offer comfort, guidance, and a sense of purpose to clients, while fostering healing and resilience.

A³ Skills Development Program

Grow skills. Strengthen understanding. Build strategies that work beyond the therapy room.

The A³ Skills Development Program is a structured 7-week experience designed for teens and their families who want practical support with emotional regulation, communication, executive functioning, relationships, independence, and everyday life skills.

Rather than focusing on the teen alone, A³ brings together teen skill development, individual support, family counseling, and parent education so the entire family has tools to support continued growth.

Our 7-Week Program Includes

  • 7 Teen Skills Development Groups focused on practical, age-appropriate skills
  • 2 Individual Counseling Sessions with the teen
  • 1 Family Counseling Session
  • 2 Parent Educational Workshops
  • Individualized goal setting and developmental planning
  • Program resources and activities for use between sessions
  • End-of-program progress review and recommendations for next steps

Couples Reset Retreat | October 24, 2026 9am - 2pm

The Couples Reset Retreat is a five-hour, in-person experience designed to help couples slow down, reconnect, and strengthen their relationship using practical Marriage Cheat Codes.

Couples will participate in guided conversations, relationship-building exercises, movement, creative activities, and evidence-informed nervous-system regulation strategies to support communication, repair under stress, emotional safety, intimacy, and connection.

This retreat is for couples who want to feel more like a team, improve how they communicate, reconnect after chronic stress, or simply create intentional time to invest in their relationship.

Your $250 registration includes admission for both partners, all retreat activities and materials, lunch, healthy snacks, and refreshments.

Saturday, October 24, 2026
9:00 AM–2:00 PM
Little Elm, TX

Space is intentionally limited.

Reserve your couple’s spot and give your relationship a day to reset and reconnect.

OPEN STUDIO: RESET SUNDAYS™

A Sunday afternoon designed to help you slow down, release the week, and reconnect with yourself.

Step away from the noise for a guided RESET experience featuring nervous system regulation, creative expression, reflection, meaningful connection, and a curated graze table.

RESET Sundays™ is a 3-hour Open Studio experience designed to help you slow down, regulate, create, reflect, and reconnect with yourself before stepping into a new week.

Each session includes guided RESET practices, nervous system regulation, creative expression, reflection, meaningful connection, and a curated graze table in a calm, supportive environment.

This experience is for adults who spend much of their time caring for, supporting, leading, or showing up for others and need intentional space to reset.

Once Monthly • Sundays
Little Elm, TX
3-Hour Experience
Limited to 10 Guests

Your registration includes all guided activities, creative materials, refreshments, and access to the curated graze table.

We take care of everything. This Sunday, make space for you.

Trauma-Informed Care You Can Trust

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Your symptoms make sense. Your healing matters.
✔️ Identify and manage trauma triggers 
✔️ Learn calming strategies for anxiety, hypervigilance, and overwhelm
✔️ Rebuild trust, safety, and connection in everyday life

 For trauma from childhood, abuse, accidents, illness, or medical events who need validation, tools, and nervous system support.

Reclaim your voice. Rediscover peace.
✔️ Break free from cycles of manipulation
✔️ Heal emotional wounds from gaslighting and control
✔️ Learn healthy boundaries and self-trust

Perfect for survivors of covert or overt narcissistic abuse and addiction, including romantic, familial, or workplace dynamics.

Complicated Grief

Love doesn’t end — and neither should your support.
✔️ Process unresolved pain after sudden, traumatic, or witnessed loss
✔️ Navigate waves of guilt, anger, numbness, or isolation
✔️ Learn how to hold grief while rebuilding life and purpose

Long-term support for individuals grieving a suicide, overdose, child loss, or unexpected death 

Our Therapists

Dr. Shahidrah CowgillShahidrah Cowgill, PhD

LPC-S

Chris NelmsChris Nelms,  M.A.,

LPC-Associate

Makesha Givs, Ed.D,

LPC

Kyla GreenKyla Green, M.A.

LPC- Associate

Tyler Dews, M.A.

LPC-Associate

Our Office

Testimonials

"This is a great place to go for counseling. I have had a very positive experience here both in therapy and with staff and their hours are flexible, so it has been convenient."

"I've been attending this center for a few months now and I have seen such dynamic changes within my life because of it. From the reception staff to the counseling staff, there is a great energy and presence that is very welcoming. The center is built on great practices and morals."

"I was very hesitant in the beginning, but it's been a great process for our family teaching us how to communicate with each other."

Services

Counseling Services

Community Membership

Retreats

Hours

Monday – Friday

9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Saturday 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

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