Individual Therapy
Trauma Therapy That Goes to the Root

If you've tried therapy before and still feel stuck, you're not broken — you may just need a different approach.

Trauma lives deeper than thoughts and behaviors. It lives in the body, in inherited patterns, in the stories we've carried so long we've forgotten they aren't ours. Here, therapy goes beyond symptom management to address the whole of who you are — integrating evidence-based trauma treatment, somatic approaches, and when appropriate, psychedelic-assisted therapy, into a personalized path toward lasting healing.

Care That Treats the Whole Person

With more than 20 years of experience, I help people move through anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles using evidence-based approaches like EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, and Somatic Experiencing — integrated with holistic and traditional healing practices that address the body, not just the mind.

My work goes beyond managing symptoms; it's about understanding how trauma shows up in your body, your patterns, and your relationships, so healing actually sticks.

Individual Therapy

Finding the right approach to healing starts with finding a therapist whose experience actually matches your needs and where the relationship can build and sustain over time. 

Trauma doesn't live only in our mind, it lives in the body and in how we learned to attach and connect, which is why somatic therapy and attachment-focused work sit alongside traditional talk-based methods here. Healing isn't a single breakthrough moment; it's built through a long-term therapeutic relationship where trust develops over time and the work deepens as skills and insights build along in the relationship. For clients exploring psychedelic therapy as part of their healing journey, our sessions may integrate psychedelic-informed preparation and integration work grounded in both clinical research and traditional healing practices.

Whether you're working through a specific traumatic event, anxiety that won't let up, or relationship and attachment patterns that keep repeating, individual therapy is shaped around where you actually are, it’s not a fixed protocol applied the same way to everyone.

What this looks like in practice:

  • A thorough initial assessment to understand your history, attachment patterns, goals, and to understand your concerns

  • A personalized treatment plan drawing from EMDR, somatic therapy, holistic therapy, and psychedelic-informed approaches

  • A long-term therapeutic relationship that deepens over time, rather than a short, transactional course of one dimensional sessions

  • Ongoing weekly sessions that adapt as you progress, adjusting method and pacing based on what's actually working for you

  • Support in connecting what we do in session to your daily life relationships, attachment patterns, and the moments outside therapy where healing matters the most

There's no fixed-length program because trauma work, and the relationship it's built on, isn't something that fits neatly into a predetermined number of sessions.

Fee : $250 / 53-minute session

Ready to start? Schedule a complimentary consultation with an experienced trauma therapist to see if we're the right fit.

signature program

Psychedelic experiences whether through a legal ketamine-assisted session, a retreat, or another setting can bring up material that's powerful, disorienting, or hard to make sense of alone.

Working with a trained provider helps to ground the information learned to maximize the benefits and longevity of your investment. This program offers structured preparation beforehand and integration support afterward, helping you to set an intention, understand what to expect, and then translate deep insights from the experience into lasting change rather than just a fleeting one.

Fee: $250 / 53-minute session

Preparing for or processing a psychedelic experience?

Schedule a consultation to talk through our options.

TESTIMONIALS

  • Quite simply, I got my life back thanks to Laura helping with traditional and alternative methods, it improved me so much and made me a better partner for my wife. Laura is amazingly perceptive, thoughtful and kind.

  • If you want to really work on yourself, not just be told what you want to hear, Laura Merritt is a great choice if you're lucky enough to get in her schedule.

How it works

  • Schedule a Complimentary Consultation

    A no-pressure first conversation

    We'll talk through what's bringing you to therapy, answer any questions you have about my approach, and get a sense of whether we're the right fit.

  • Initial Assessment and Treatment Planning

    Understanding your story and needs

    In our first sessions, we'll explore your history, what's gotten in the way of healing so far, and what you're hoping therapy will help you build. This shapes a treatment plan tailored to you rather than a fixed protocol.

  • Ongoing Sessions

    A relationship that grows with you

    From there, we meet regularly and integrate specific treatment interventions like EMDR, somatic therapy, holistic and psychedelic-informed approaches as they fit, adjusting the work as you progress and building a long-term relationship you can rely on.

Why Work With Me

20+ Years of Specialized Trauma Experience

Two decades of advanced training, EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, Somatic Experiencing, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Certified Psychedelic Therapist, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy mean you're working with someone with a deep passion for healing and learning and offering the best service, not just one method or protocol that gets applied to everyone the same way.

A Whole-Person, Integrative Approach

Healing isn't just in your thoughts. My work blends evidence-based clinical methods with holistic and traditional healing practices, addressing the body, the nervous system, and the stories trauma leaves behind, not just the symptoms on the surface.

A Relationship Built to Last

Real change happens through trust that deepens over time. Rather than a short-term fix, trauma therapy is a long-term, attachment-informed relationship designed to shift the therapy as it evolves with you.

FAQ

Healing That Meets You Where You Are

Trauma doesn't have to define your story. 

Through personalized, integrative therapy built on trust, you can move from surviving old patterns to genuinely living beyond them.