EMDR therapy for adults who have Spent Years getting to know themselves and still Don't quite feel free | Connecticut

You’ve done meaningful work.
Something hasn’t fully settled.
You’re looking to go deeper.

Let’s go beyond coping & tend to the root of what feels unfinished.

From the outside, you look like you’re managing it all.

But most people don’t see:

The jaw you’re constantly clenching
The tightness in your chest despite your smile
A mind with 26 tabs open at all times
The way you've always known it was your job to hold things together
How you run on imposter syndrome
The background chatter of what-ifs and should-haves
A stomach that braces for criticism before anyone has even spoken
How small moments can send your thoughts spiraling
The weight of others’ emotions that somehow became yours to carry

You’ve learned how to manage.
You’ve learned how to explain why you feel the way you do.

And for a long time, that was enough.

Then something happened.

Maybe…

the pressure at work finally tipped the scale.
the thing you’d been managing became impossible to handle.
you were caught off guard and sent spiraling.
that old thing resurfaced with a vengeance.
even with all your efforts, something still broke through.
your nervous system just hit its limit.

The things that used to help take more than you have.

The masking is burning you out.
The anxiety, fear and internal critic show up faster.
Louder.
Harder to manage.
People see the struggle even when you’re trying really hard to keep keeping on.

You desperately want things to change.

You long for:

A brain that can actually turn off

Relief that doesn’t require constant effort

Shoulders that can soften

A body that isn’t bracing for impact

Rest that actually feels restorative

More patience with youre

The ability to feel calm and confident

You can’t out-think what your body holds.

You've built meaningful understanding. You see your patterns. You've developed coping skills. Those efforts are real and they matter.

Yet some of what you're carrying has roots that go back further than insight has been able to reach. It may not necessarily be a single event you can point to. Often times it's quieter than that. You may be holding the steady accumulation of what was expected of you. The feelings you learned to set aside or figure out on your own. The ways you made yourself smaller or steadier so someone else could feel okay.

You may not think of any of that as trauma. Many people I work with don't. But those experiences have a way of echoing into the present long after they're over. Those echos are sometimes in our thoughts, but are often held in our bodies, sometimes without words. That's where this work begins

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Hi, I’m Laura.

You’re in the right place if you’ve already done meaningful healing work and you’re looking for depth-oriented work to support your body catching up to what your mind has worked hard to understand.‍ ‍

All the prior healing work you’ve done matters here. We don’t discard it, we build on it.

I use EMDR and parts work to help insight integrate into your nervous system. These approaches help us work directly with what’s stored beneath logic and move beyond day to day coping. We aren’t here to problem solve our way out of feelings. We are here to work through the feelings by gently addressing and releasing what remains stuck.

One thing I feel strongly about: the format of therapy should fit the work, not the other way around. We don’t start with a rigid, one-size-fits-all schedule. Instead, we co-design a container that matches the depth you’re looking for. For some, that’s a steady weekly rhythm. For others, it’s longer blocks of two or three hours to allow the nervous system enough time to fully settle and process.

We start with a 90-minute deep-dive intake to map out your goals, and from there, we choose the format that makes the most sense for your life and your healing. As the work evolves, the format can, too.