Elizabeth Boyer, MA, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in McKinney, Texas
EMDR-Trained Therapist | Certified Trauma Professional | Registered Yoga Teacher
I’m Elizabeth Boyer, MA, LMFT, a Texas-licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of Acadia Psychotherapy & Associates in McKinney, Texas. I provide psychotherapy for adults in person in Downtown McKinney and online throughout Texas. My clinical focus includes trauma and PTSD, chronic stress, anxiety and burnout, narcissistic abuse recovery, codependency, painful relationship experiences, and divorce or breakup recovery. My integrative approach may include EMDR therapy, somatic techniques, nervous-system-informed care, attachment-focused therapy, and traditional psychotherapy.
What Therapy With Elizabeth Is Like
I support adults who feel emotionally stuck or unsettled in their lives and relationships. Rather than focusing on fixing or forcing change, we work on developing awareness, emotional stability, and a deeper sense of personal agency so that your choices feel more intentional and aligned.
Therapy offers a space to slow down, feel supported, and reconnect with yourself in a meaningful way. I provide a calm, grounded environment where you can explore emotional pain, relationship patterns, and life transitions without judgment while developing practical skills that support meaningful change.
Many of the adults I work with are thoughtful, capable, and accustomed to managing a great deal on their own, yet they may feel anxious, burned out, disconnected, or overwhelmed underneath. Therapy is thoughtfully tailored to your experiences, needs, and pace, with attention to both emotional patterns and the ways stress or difficult experiences may be felt in the body.
I invite you to learn more about my clinical approach, education, and professional training below and consider whether working together may feel like the right fit for you.
Learn more about my approach and experience below.
Elizabeth’s Credentials, Education & Training
Learn more about my background as a licensed mental health professional.
License & Education
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Marriage and Family Therapy, Amberton University, Dallas, Texas
Bachelor of Science in Public Policy Administration (B.S.P.P.A.), Minor in Public Law, The University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri
EMDR and Trauma Training
I am an EMDR-trained clinician and a member of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) and a Certified Trauma Professional (CTP). My trauma-focused education supports my work with adults experiencing trauma, anxiety, painful relationship experiences, and related nervous-system responses.
Relevant training includes:
EMDR basic training through Trauma Recovery/HAP, an EMDRIA-approved training provider
Certified Trauma Professional, 2022, PESI
Trauma Treatment with EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions, 2022
Somatic Therapy and EMDR: Interweaving Body-Based Healing in Your Practice, 2026
Somatic, Nervous System, and Mind-Body Training
My additional training in somatic approaches, nervous system regulation, and yoga informs the body-based techniques I may integrate into psychotherapy. These techniques are used collaboratively and adapted to each client’s needs, comfort, and treatment goals.
Certified Somatics + Nervous System Coach — NEUROFIT, 2024
Foundations of Somatic Therapy for Trauma: The 9 Key Techniques for Effective Body-Based Therapy — PESI; presented by Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD
Somatic Therapy and Body-Based Healing — Niel Asher Education
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200), Yoga Alliance — 200-hour yoga teacher training completed through Yoga & Ayurveda Center, 2020
Chair Yoga Teacher Training — 25 hours, 2020
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training and Immersion — 2023
Additional Continuing Education and Professional Development
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Narcissistic Abuse for Therapists: Empower Clients to Break Free and Recover from Gaslighting, Emotional Manipulation and Coercion — PESI; presented by Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC
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Inner Child Work and Protectors: Parts Work and Internal Family Systems — Embodied Philosophy; presented by Jay Earley, PhD, 2024
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Lumia Certified Life Coach — Lumia Coaching, 2020
Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization — University of Pennsylvania
My Integrative Approach to Therapy
My work is trauma-informed, collaborative, and paced with care. We begin by understanding what is bringing you to therapy, how past experiences and current patterns may be affecting you, and what you would like to feel or do differently. Depending on your needs, goals, and readiness, I may integrate EMDR, traditional psychotherapy, somatic techniques, attachment-focused work, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation. The intention is not to fit you into one method, but to create a thoughtful approach that considers your emotional, relational, and body-based experience.
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EMDR is a structured psychotherapy approach that may help reduce the distress associated with traumatic or other painful experiences. Treatment begins with careful assessment and preparation, and not every session involves memory processing. When clinically appropriate, I may also incorporate the Flash Technique, a minimally intrusive intervention that can help reduce the intensity connected to a distressing memory with limited conscious engagement with its details.
Learn more about EMDR therapy in McKinney, Texas and the Flash Technique.
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Stress and trauma can be experienced through physical responses as well as thoughts and emotions. When helpful, I may incorporate body awareness, grounding, orienting, breath practices, or gentle movement alongside talk therapy or EMDR. These techniques are collaborative, optional, and adapted to your comfort, readiness, and treatment goals.
Learn more about somatic therapy techniques in McKinney, Texas.
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Past experiences and relationships can influence present-day beliefs, boundaries, emotional responses, and relationship patterns. Attachment-focused and parts-informed work can help us understand these patterns with greater compassion and choice. I use these perspectives flexibly without assuming that every concern has the same cause or asking you to fit into a particular model.
Learn more about inner child work and how attachment wounds can affect adult relationships.
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Some sessions may focus on talking through current concerns, identifying recurring patterns, examining unhelpful beliefs, clarifying values, recognizing existing strengths, or developing practical coping skills. Mindfulness and cognitive behavioral strategies may be incorporated when useful, while therapy remains individualized rather than tied to one technique.
Learn more about talk therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Concerns I Support Adults With
Attachment and Relationship Patterns
Divorce and Breakup Recovery
Self-Esteem, Identity, and Personal Agency
Life Transitions, Grief, and Loss