Trauma informed Counseling
Brave Life Counseling
Healing begins with being seen, heard, and believed. Allowing heartbreaks’ full expression opens the door to an abundance of possibilities and hope.
Welcome to your Brave Life.
✓ EMDR Trained for Trauma reprocessing
✓ Compassionate care for adults & adolescents
✓ Immediate openings in-person or telehealth



Welcome to Brave Life Counseling
Healing begins with feeling heard and understood. Abby Lambeth has a gift of looking deeply, slowing down, and truly seeing you. As her client, you will experience the depth of her compassion and interest in knowing who you are and where you want to go. She uses her clinical skills to help individuals find a way to see their past with more clarity and empathy as well as find a way forward filled with strength, possibility, and hope. The therapeutic process is one of great courage and instinct both of which Abby has in spades. Abby combines her vast life experience with clinical knowledge to create paths forward that fulfill each individual client’s desired goals for their own lives.
Schedule a free consultation with Abby to begin your healing journey. New horizons await.


Areas of Expertise
Counseling is a way to get to know yourself better, to develop a relationship with yourself based in trust, empathy, and compassion.
Trauma Recovery
I specialize in all kinds of trauma. Trauma related to complex relational trauma, car accidents, medical trauma, interpersonal trauma, sexual trauma, birth trauma, and single event trauma. There are so many ways our bodies get stuck in trauma. This can feel like images are seared into our memories and symptoms develop while coping strategies are created from this trauma to keep us safe. Some examples of symptoms of trauma are hypervigilance, people pleasing, insomnia, IBS, chronic pain, eating disorders, and substance use issues. All of these things can be related to trauma that is stuck within the body and our systems. I specialize in moving that trauma through you and working towards finding more compassionate ways to live in the world.
EMDR
I utilize EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which I utilize to alleviate triggers and symptoms associated with traumatic experiences. Utilizing bilateral stimulation this modality of treatment allows the body to access complex memory networks and move triggering memories along these networks finding clarity, truth, and relief. This is a powerful modality with the impact to change the way you see yourself and others. These traumatic experiences can include parental separation, car accidents, medical trauma, relational trauma, complex trauma, childhood neglect, divorce, sexual assault, and so much more.
Relational Therapy
Relational therapy begins with the relationship you have with yourself, being curious and reflective and explore how you feel towards yourself. The relationship with the counselor is used as a tool to create more space for self-compassion, insight, and courage to share your story without shame. The awareness gained through this insight, reflection, and therapeutic feedback can be used to create a healthy relationship with yourself and others.

You deserve to feel seen. Call or text 309-242-9021 or email abby@bravelifecounseling.com to schedule your consultation.
Free consultation
✓ In person or telehealth