AP + Co Collective, founded by clinician Angela Prior, is expanding access to specialized mind-body care that recognizes an important reality of recovery: understanding what happened is not always enough. For many people, meaningful change also involves learning to feel safer, more connected, and more present in their bodies.
Now celebrating 10 years of growth, the practice brings together clinical counselling, mindful movement, and specialized practitioners within a collaborative, trauma-informed environment. Angela Prior brings more than 16 years of clinical experience and specializes in trauma, eating disorders, chronic health conditions, somatic therapies, and Intuitive Eating.
A More Practical Approach to Embodied Healing
Embodied Healing is not simply about adding mindfulness to traditional counselling. AP + Co's approach considers how emotions, stress responses, movement, personal history, and relationships with food and the body can interact.
For example, someone may understand intellectually that they are safe today while still experiencing tension, avoidance, shutdown, or difficulty identifying what they need. Therapy can create space to notice these responses without treating the body as something that needs to be "fixed."
This is also where questions such as how to release trauma from the body require nuance. Trauma is not a substance that can simply be removed through one exercise. Instead, trauma-informed care can help people develop greater awareness, regulation, safety, and resilience through approaches such as somatic therapy, Brain spotting, mindfulness, yoga-informed practices, and talk therapy.
Holistic Wellness Counselling With Real-World Context
AP + Co describes holistic care as looking at the full picture rather than isolating one symptom. Care may involve collaboration with other professionals, including psychiatrists, eating-disorder dietitians, trauma specialists, and other wellness providers when appropriate.
For clients rebuilding their relationship with food, an Intuitive Eating Counsellor can help shift the focus away from dieting, weight-based judgment, and rigid food rules toward a more compassionate, body-aware relationship with eating. AP + Co maintains a non-diet, weight-inclusive framework across its clinical and movement offerings.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Embodied Healing?
It is a therapeutic approach that considers both psychological experiences and body-based responses during the healing process.
Can therapy help with trauma-related body responses?
Trauma-informed therapy can help clients recognize patterns of stress, develop regulation skills, and build a stronger sense of safety. Individual needs vary.
What does Holistic Wellness Counselling involve?
It considers emotional, physical, behavioural, social, and other relevant aspects of a person's lived experience rather than focusing on one symptom alone.
What does an Intuitive Eating Counsellor do?
They support a healthier relationship with food and the body using a non-diet, weight-inclusive framework rather than making weight loss the measure of progress.
Where does AP + Co Collective provide care?
The collective offers in-person services in East Dallas as well as telehealth options through participating practitioners.
About AP + Co Collective
AP + Co Collective is a Dallas-based community of independent clinical and mind-body practitioners committed to trauma-informed, non-diet, weight-inclusive care.
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