Connected Heart Therapy
“I’m done managing the same patterns. I’m ready to heal.”
Trauma-focused therapy with two decades of clinical depth behind it. EMDR, intensives, and ketamine-assisted care for people ready to do real work, not just talk about it.
EMDR
EMDR Intensives
Couples
Couples Intensives
Ketamine-Assisted
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Book directly · Austin, TX and virtual
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THE ARISE METHOD™
Heal. Awaken. Rise.
“I’m ready to rise into the life I was meant to live.”
A step-by-step framework that bridges trauma science and soul-centered healing. Memory reconsolidation, somatic work, and spiritual alignment for the deep, lasting transformation you’ve been looking for.
The ARISE Journey
Founding Circle
1:1 Experience
Self-paced and live programs · Nationwide · Coaching, not therapy
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For clinicians
Train with me
I’ve trained hundreds of clinicians in EMDR and trauma-focused care. EMDR Basic Trainer, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Trainer, and a clinician still doing the work I teach. If you’re building real trauma expertise into your practice, this is where to start.
EMDR Basic Training
The full EMDRIA-approved foundation course in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Training
Certification training in the integration of ketamine and psychotherapy for clinicians ready to expand their toolkit.
Advanced Trainings and EMDR Certification/Consultation
Specialized trainings, case consultation, and custom engagements for groups and individual clinicians.
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About Wendy
A trauma therapist, teacher of clinicians, and creator of The ARISE Method™
For over two decades, Wendy Byrd has been doing the same work in different rooms: helping people heal what hurt them and come home to who they actually are. A Licensed Professional Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist, she is co-founder of Connected Heart Therapy in Austin and a nationally recognized voice in EMDR and trauma care. She has trained and consulted with hundreds of clinicians, and her work has been featured on Good Morning America, USA Today, and Behavioral Health Today.
She is also the creator of The ARISE Method, built from a pattern she kept seeing in the people who came to her: years of therapy elsewhere, real effort, and still no access to the deep trauma-focused healing that creates lasting change. ARISE brings the depth of Wendy’s clinical methodology to a wider audience, weaving together memory reconsolidation, somatic practice, and the soul-level work that traditional talk therapy often doesn’t have room for.
Whether you work with her one-on-one in therapy or through ARISE, the work goes the same direction: not toward managing what hurt you, but toward the life you were meant to live.
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