What can I expect in my first therapy session in West Des Moines?

Your initial session is a warm, confidential space to discuss your story, current challenges, and goals for therapy. We will work collaboratively to build a personalized treatment plan tailored to your needs.

How does EMDR therapy work for trauma recovery?

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy that helps reprocess distressing memories and trauma, allowing your brain to naturalize healing and reduce emotional reactivity.

Do you offer online therapy or telehealth in Iowa?

Yes, we offer convenient and secure video telehealth sessions for clients across the state of Iowa, as well as in-person therapy at our West Des Moines office.

How do I schedule an appointment with Narrative Healing Therapy?

You can request an appointment by calling (515) 827-2340 or reaching out through our online contact form to get started.

Privacy Policy

Effective October 16th, 2026

Narrative Healing Therapy runs a private reporting dashboard for our practice. It reads advertising, website analytics and search data from Google. This page explains what Google data the dashboard uses, why, and how it is kept.

Who we are

Narrative Healing Therapy, Richard Zubulake. Contact: rzubulake@gmail.com. Website: https://www.narrativehealingtherapy.com

What the dashboard does

The dashboard shows how our practice performs on Google Ads, Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console. When the owner approves a change, it can also add negative keywords or pause duplicate keywords in our Google Ads account. Only the owner uses it.

Google data we access

Google Ads: campaign, ad group, keyword, search term, ad and conversion data for our account. We make a change only after the owner approves it.
Google Analytics 4: aggregated session, event and conversion counts by landing page and traffic source for our website. The dashboard does not receive records about individual website visitors.
Google Search Console: search queries, pages, clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position for our website. Read only.

The dashboard also stores weekly counts that the owner types in: leads received, consultations booked and new clients. It does not store client names or contact details.

How we use this data

We use Google data only to show reports, to explain them, and to make the changes the owner approves. We do not sell it, use it for advertising, or share it with anyone, except as described under "Tools we use." We do not use Google user data to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

Tools we use

The owner connects to these Google accounts with AdLoop, an open-source tool that runs on the owner's computer and uses the same Google sign-in as the dashboard. The owner also uses an AI assistant, Claude, made by Anthropic, to read and analyze the results. When the owner asks that assistant about the data, the relevant results are sent to it for that conversation.

Storage and security

The dashboard runs on the owner's own computer, on the home network. It is not published to the internet. Report data is kept in a local database on that computer, and the database keeps history for as long as the owner keeps it. Google sign-in tokens are kept in a local folder on that computer and are read by the dashboard in a read-only mode.

Google API Services User Data Policy

Our use and transfer of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Your choices

You can remove the dashboard's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. To ask for changes or deletion of data we hold, contact us at richard@narrativehealingtherapy.com.

Changes to this policy

If the dashboard's use of Google data changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.