Allison Rencher runs Cedar Family Solutions as a solo Cedar City counseling practice. She holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, is EMDR-trained, and is also a certified yoga instructor. The combination is uncommon and lets the practice integrate body-aware techniques into traditional talk-therapy work for clients who respond to somatic approaches.
Why the modality combination matters
Most counseling practices in Iron County are generalist talk therapy. A clinician who has explicitly trained in both EMDR and somatic yoga practice is offering a specific kind of integrated work — body-aware processing for trauma, anxiety, and stress responses that don’t always resolve through cognitive talk therapy alone. Some clients respond to that integration; others don’t need it. Either way, having the option in Cedar City matters because the alternatives mostly require driving to St. George or further.
Cedar City’s thinner counseling landscape
The counseling segment in Iron County is meaningfully thinner than in Washington County. Fewer practices, fewer specialty options, fewer clinicians per capita. A practice with an unusual modality combination is genuinely valuable for Cedar City residents who would otherwise have to travel for specialized care or settle for a generalist who happens to be locally available. Solo-clinician scale is the structural reality of most Cedar City practices in this segment.
Disclosure
Web presence is reasonable — practice site, Psychology Today profile — and the LMFT credential is verifiable through Utah DOPL. The yoga-instructor certification and EMDR training are referenced on the practice site rather than independently registered, which is the typical disclosure pattern for those credentials.
Where this lands
A solo Cedar City counseling practice with an LMFT, EMDR training, and somatic yoga integration is the kind of specialty option Iron County residents specifically benefit from being able to find. The 435 register’s job is to surface these practices for the local clients who are looking for something specific and otherwise have to discover the practice through word-of-mouth alone.