Meet the Crescent Counseling Team | Therapists in Dallas, TX
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Amanda Stretcher Lewis MA, LPC-S
License Number: #71824
Regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council
Amanda believes healing happens in relationship. Most of the people Amanda works with are thoughtful, capable, high-functioning adults who still feel stuck in patterns they can’t think their way out of, like anxiety that won’t settle, relationship dynamics that repeat, or a sense that something old is still running the show.Amanda’s work focuses on attachment, developmental injury, and trauma. She is especially drawn to the places where early experiences shaped the nervous system and quietly influenced how you show up in love, work, and connection. Together, Amanda will help you slow down and gently explore those patterns, not just cognitively, but relationally and somatically.
Amanda integrates Brainspotting, Polyvagal-informed work, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and other trauma-informed approaches to help you move beyond insight and into embodied change. She cares deeply about helping you feel steady, understood, and supported as you untangle the impact of your past and build more secure ways of relating in the present.
Therapy with Amanda is grounded, curious, and relational. She doesn’t believe in fixing, but in helping you understand yourself, regulate your nervous system, and experience new, corrective relational moments that create lasting change.
At the heart of her work is this belief: when we feel safe in relationship, we heal.
Brainspotting Certified | Consultant-in-Training | Safe and Sound Protocol & Rest and Restore Protocol Certified | ISSTD Certificate in Complex Trauma & Dissociation | Level 1 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy | Practicing in Dallas since 2013
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Allison Schmid MA, LPC
License Number: #77136
Regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council
Relationships are where we are wounded, and where we heal. Because of this belief, Allison specializes in working with couples and individuals navigating relational distress. She is trained in the Gottman Method and brings a trauma-informed, attachment-based lens to every couple she sits with. Her work helps partners move from conflict cycles and disconnection toward clarity, repair, and deeper emotional intimacy.She understands that arguments are rarely about the surface issue. They are about attachment needs, nervous systems in survival mode, and the longing to feel chosen and understood. Allison helps couples slow down those patterns, learn practical tools, and create new experiences of responsiveness and emotional safety with one another.
With individuals, she supports clients in understanding how their relational history shapes present dynamics, empowering them to build healthier, more secure connections.
Allison’s presence is warm, steady, and direct. She believes in both compassion and accountability, and she holds space for growth while helping clients take meaningful steps forward.
Her work centers around this core truth: secure relationships are built, not found.
Gottman Level 2 Trained | Treating Affairs & Trauma in Couples | Prepare Enrich Certified | Practicing in Dallas since 2017
Allison’s specialties include:
Couples Therapy & Integrated Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy
Crescent Counseling’s Story
Together, we bring over 21 combined years of clinical experience serving adults and couples in Dallas. So Crescent Counseling really began long before we opened our doors.
How We Met
We first worked together at an eating disorder treatment center, where we saw firsthand how deeply relational wounds impact the body, identity, and sense of self. Later, we worked side by side in a larger group practice, continuing to refine our clinical voices and deepen our understanding of trauma and relationships.
Why We Built Crescent Counseling
Over the years, we grew, both professionally and personally. We trained in different modalities, supported one another through major life transitions, and kept coming back to the same shared belief: healing is relational.
When we launched Crescent Counseling in Dallas, TX, we built it around that foundation.
While our specialties differ, with Allison focusing primarily on couples and relational repair, and Amanda focusing on attachment, developmental injury, and trauma, the thread connecting our work is the same. We both believe that transformation happens when people experience safety, responsiveness, and attunement in relationship.
We are committed to practicing what we teach. Our partnership has grown through trust, repair, shared vision, and deep respect for one another’s strengths. Crescent Counseling reflects that same intention: a space where clients can experience steadiness, honesty, and meaningful connection.
At Crescent Counseling, we don’t just talk about relational healing.
We embody it.
Amanda has been published in Choosing Therapy and quoted in Healthline and HuffPost — see our press page