My name is Ilese Buchanan and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 103846. I am an EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) Certified Therapist, Consultant-in-Training, and offer bilingual services in English and Spanish. I believe that our thoughts are fueled by what we believe, which impacts how we feel and what we do. I believe we are made for relationships, and our experiences with others can leave us with different beliefs about ourselves and that can enable us to thrive or cause us to feel like failures. My work targets these particular beliefs so that you can personally and relationally thrive. I have had such a great opportunity to work with families, couples, young adults, and children locally in Riverside at a community counseling center, now called The Grove Corner Counseling and Community Center from 2011 to 2016. At the start of the year in 2016, I accepted a position with Orange County Health Care Agency, where I enjoyed working with individuals of all ages experiencing mild to moderate behavioral health problems. The goal of my therapeutic work was to intervene and prevent a persistent and more serious behavioral health problem from developing. I developed and facilitated different themed groups and I also created and hosted an EMDR networking and study group for Orange County Health Care Agency's clinicians practicing EMDR. Buchanan Counseling Services, began in 2018. In addition to providing counseling services with my private practice, in 2019 I worked in the city of Redlands and offered counseling services with Spring to Autumn Family Counseling. In 2020 I started a nonprofit to make evidence-based relationship counseling more accessible to Christians and am currently the Clinical Director and Supervisor of the counseling center. My experience uniquely enables me to understand how to meet those I work with, right where they are, earn their trust in me and confidence in the powerful transformation that one can experience with EMDR therapy.