Providing individual mental health counseling and EMDR therapy to adults in Washington state.
I’m so glad you’re here.
If you're looking for a warm, relational therapist who can listen well and also help you find your path forward, I'm here.
It’s been a really tough few years for all of us. Stress and anxiety have increased dramatically as we learn to adapt to this so-called new normal. And we are grieving so many losses, big and small: our hopes for our children, our sense of safety, being unable to say goodbye to our loved ones. We find ourselves needing more support. Therapy can help.
When our bodies are under these kinds of stress our nervous systems struggle to find equilibrium. We can become hypervigilant, anxiously preparing for the next fallout. Or, we can feel sort of flattened and numb. Often times we move back and forth between these ways of coping, with little awareness of what makes the shifts happen or how to find a more tolerable middle. EMDR therapy helps our bodies find balance, recalibrating our nervous systems to get through life’s normal ups and downs, and help us find our center when the world becomes overwhelming.
If you are noticing you feel more irritable, stressed, or afraid,
If you are finding yourself feeling sad most of the time,
If you are feeling overwhelmed by all the changes in your life,
I can help.
EMDR therapy can help you find moments of peace amidst the chaos, and remember what calm feels like in your body. Psychodynamic therapy can help you move through your grief. You don’t have to get through this alone.
Lacie Braun (she/her), MA, LMHC
I blend EMDR therapy and psychotherapy to support folks experiencing things like anxiety, grief and loss, and major life changes.
I love seeing the lift my clients get when they feel less alone, and how their lives feel more full and meaningful when they are able to be with their feelings.
I'm enamored with my toddler, and enjoy playing with interior design. If I'm not covered in paint and glue and various leftover snacks, I might be reading Architectural Digest or watching home design shows.
Providing Individual Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy is a type of therapy which allows us to adapt to your specific needs using my particular expertise and training.
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EMDR Therapy
A structured way to process painful experiences based on neuroscience
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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
A relational approach to exploring unconscious beliefs
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Attachment Theory
A theory about how we experience relationships
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Anti-Oppression Lens
Considering impacts of systemic inequity
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.
