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Andrew Siefers
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Jun 25, 2026
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Andrew Siefers MA, LPC-S; EMDR Trained is a private practice owner focused on faith based supports and interventions to assist clients in psychological distress in McKinney, TX. Andrew and Amy have been married since 2008 and have 2 children. They love doing things as a family and are actively crunchy in many parts of their life as home school parents to their boys, soccer, basketball, and swimming sideline supporters. Andrew often thinks about what it would be like to be participating these days but doesn't want to risk the medical consequences.
Andrew has an undergraduate bachelors of arts in International Business from Christian Heritage College (San Diego Christian College) and a Masters in Counseling degree from Dallas Baptist University. He has been actively engaged in working with direct clients since 2009. He served as Practicum intake provider for Sante Center for Healing, Meier Clinics LPC Intern in the Partial Hospital Day Program and fully Licensed Professional Counselor for Texas Health Resources - Springwood Hospital, Meier Clinics Outpatient Services (2013-2016), Enterhealth Ranch - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation (2017), and My Rooted Soul Counseling private practice since 2018. He has a passion to help people understand the meanings of how neuro processes and theology are able support and increase a person's well being. At times he writes from a perspective of what he calls Neurotheology.
He enjoys books, laughing with his wife and kids, punny word related jokes, and new insights in therapeutic modalities of psychiatric care.
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Aug 16, 2026 ∙ 2 min
A Space. Intentional. Set Apart. Hallowed.
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Aug 4, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Why You Can't Just "Feel" God's Presence And What Your Nervous System Has to Say about it
There is a particular kind of shame that shows up in my office more than almost any other. It sounds like this: “Everyone talks about feeling God’s presence. I don’t feel anything. I must be doing something wrong.” For most of the people who say this to me, the problem isn’t their faith. It’s their nervous system running a prediction it hasn’t updated yet. NOT A SCAR. A MISCALIBRATED ALARM.. For a decade, the dominant popular image of trauma has been that the body stores it — that a wound...
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Jul 1, 2026 ∙ 4 min
The Attachment We Were Made For
Why your brain -- and God -- won't settle for a screen A recent survey found that nearly 40% of teenagers have now turned to an AI chatbot for emotional support or companionship. Not for homework help. Not for trivia. For comfort. For someone — something — to talk to when the day fell apart. I don't think that statistic should surprise us, and I don't think it should just alarm us either. It should make us curious. Because underneath it is a question every counselor eventually has to sit...
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Jun 9, 2026 ∙ 7 min
What Your Earliest Memory Reveals About How You See God
There is a memory somewhere in you that you did not choose to keep. You kept it anyway. Neuroscientists who study memory consolidation have long observed that the brain does not archive experience the way a filing system stores documents — chronologically, comprehensively, neutrally. It stores what matters emotionally. The hippocampus, working in close partnership with the amygdala, encodes experience based on emotional intensity and relational significance. The stronger the emotional charge...
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Jun 2, 2026 ∙ 4 min
What Your Brain Does When You Pray
Neurotheology and the Practice of Presence Whether or not you pray, your brain is doing something when you sit in silence, slow your breathing, and direct your attention toward something larger than yourself. Neuroscientists call it a shift in default mode network activity -- a measurable reorganization of how your brain allocates attention when it moves from reactive processing to something more intentional, more still. Contemplatives have called it communion for centuries. The research and...
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Jun 1, 2026 ∙ 3 min
If My People: A Call Back To Your First Love
There is a verse so familiar it has nearly lost its edge. If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 We quote it at prayer gatherings. We post it in times of national crisis. And somewhere in the repetition, we've let it become a banner rather than a summons. But read it again slowly. God isn't speaking to the...
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