Make your therapy work for you
EMDR intensive therapy for LGBTQ folks in Seattle, specializing in attachment wounds, religious trauma, and identity exploration
You’ve worked so hard to heal, but something is still missing.
You’ve been in talk therapy, maybe for years. The weekly sessions have brought clarity and helpful tools. But you notice you are holding back from sharing something because you don’t have enough time to really get into it. Or you find you are getting to the really good stuff 35 minutes in and then you have to gather yourself back up until next week.
Friends tell you how insightful you are. You’re the one who brings up attachment issues at dinner or invites your chosen family to share their childhood wounds over coffee. You pride yourself on your self-awareness and ability to cope. But something still feels stuck.
Spiritual retreats, support groups, radical book clubs all make a difference, but it’s not enough. Your nervous system still gets hijacked by old wounds and beliefs, and it makes it harder to have the kinds of connections you long for. You’ve done the work to heal from your conservative upbringing, so why is freedom still feeling hard to find?
Living in a world that seems to reinforce the idea that you are bad makes living out loud that much harder. You want to find a way to feel the grief and rage that comes with being targeted this way, but you don’t want that to be the only thing you feel. How can you be awake to both the pain and the love that comes with really being alive?
Despite all the internal work you’ve done, you find yourself wanting more. You are ready to really deepen your healing so that your life can be truly full.
It’s time to try something new.
I’m Lacie.
I work with queer and trans clients who want a more expansive experience of therapy beyond the healing work they’ve already done. Folks come with old themes they just can’t shake, recognizing they need more tending, especially as the world around us presses in on the pain of conservative upbringings and attempted erasure of our identities.
Intensive EMDR therapy gives us the space to slow down and listen to what our bodies are holding, to address both systemic oppression and internalized beliefs, and to support our nervous systems so that you can find enough safety to return to the rest of your world. Your body can learn to feel grief and gratitude, rage and compassion, despair and joy. You can be fully you, fully alive.
EMDR Intensives with LGBTQ+ adults
If you’re ready to move past what’s holding you back, therapy intensives are the change you’re looking for.
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EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy is a highly effective method which helps our brains to process unresolved experiences while keeping our nervous systems regulated. Through bilateral stimulation of the brain (through eye movement, tapping, etc.) to help our bodies feel safe and to “unstick” our stuck beliefs.
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LBGTQIA+ Therapy
Being queer is a gift. But sometimes it feels like a burden, too. Growing up in religious households where our identity is denied or labeled as wrong, having our rights taken away, building a new sense of self and family because we have been rejected. Queer therapy recognizes these complexities and seeks to both heal our traumas and celebrate who we are.
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Attachment Theory
Our earliest relationships teach us how to relate to others. Sometimes that sets us up to really struggle with closeness - we can’t get enough or we find it overwhelming. How do people have relationships that feel both satisfying and safe? Learn how to build secure connections and heal the wounds of our first relationships.
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Intensives
An alternative to traditional 50 min weekly sessions, I offer extended 3 hr sessions and immersive personalized full day packages.
Intensive therapy allows for deeper focus, quicker relief, and a contained space to really work through pain or trauma.
Breakage
by Mary Oliver
I go down to the edge of the sea. / How everything shines in the morning light! / The cusp of the whelk, / the broken cupboard of the clam, / the opened, blue mussels, / moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred— / and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split, / dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone. / It's like a schoolhouse / of little words, / thousands of words. / First you figure out what each one means by itself, / the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop full of moonlight. / Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.
