We believe healing is a relational process. We believe therapy should strengthen your relationship with yourself - not replace it. Lasting healing emerges through a shift in relationship to yourself, your body, your emotions, or your people.
Our Approach:
Healing Through Relationship
Curiosity
Compassion
Connection
Slowly building awareness and understanding around reactions, patterns, experiences, etc. at a pace that honors the wisdom of the nervous system.
Modeling non-judgemental, gentle responses towards self-discoveries, the body, emotions, thoughts, etc.
A new relationship is born out of experiencing something different through movement, orienting, pendulation, breath, yoga, and other embodied practices. The body becomes the messenger and the guide.
Capacity
Change
Ability to hold or attune to a variety of experiences while maintaining connection widens and deepens as curiosity and compassion become internalized. From this expanded capacity, confidence, resilience, regulation, and self-trust naturally begin to emerge.
Relationship with yourself shifts as a curious and compassionate relationship with the body is integrated. Your relationships with your body, our emotions, and others naturally begin to shift as well.
The Healing Through Relationship Approach at Work
“Lauren’s support and expertise in trauma and somatic work have helped me heal deeply held wounds. I feel more at peace, and my relationships are blossoming as a result.”
Client Experience
We don't force change. There's a deep respect for the pace at which the nervous system can safely integrate new experiences. We don't chase outcomes. We help people understand themselves, reconnect with themselves, and experience something different in relationship; growth and chnage naturally begins to emerge from that process.
Healing at Your Own Pace
What Makes Us Different: Our Brand Values
1. Relationship as the Agent of Change
We understand healing as emerging through relationships—with a therapist, with the nervous system, and eventually within the self. New relational experiences create new internal possibilities. Growth is not about optimizing or fixing who you are, but about developing a more connected, responsive, and compassionate relationship with your internal experience.
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2. Curiosity Over Correction
We approach thoughts, emotions, and behaviors with curiosity rather than judgment. Nothing within you is treated as wrong or broken—everything is understood as meaningful, especially the parts that were formed in response to survival.
3. Safety as the Foundation for Change
We recognize that the nervous system cannot shift through insight alone. Real change happens when there is enough internal and relational safety for new experiences of yourself to emerge and be integrated over time.
4. Attunement Before Intervention
We prioritize noticing and understanding before trying to change. The first step in any healing process is learning to accurately sense what is happening inside, without bypassing or rushing toward solutions.
5. Self-Trust Is Built, Not Assumed
We do not ask clients to “trust themselves” prematurely. Instead, we focus on creating repeated experiences of being met, understood, and supported—so that self-trust can develop naturally from lived experience.
6. The Nervous System Makes Sense
We view nervous system responses as adaptive, not pathological. Protective strategies—such as numbing, hypervigilance, or avoidance—are understood as intelligent responses to past environments, not flaws to eliminate.
7. Integration Over Intellectual Insight
We value embodied understanding over conceptual understanding alone. Insight matters, but lasting change requires that awareness is integrated into how a person relates to themselves moment by moment.
8. Compassionate Accountability
We believe in gentle honesty with oneself. Self-attunement includes the capacity to notice patterns without abandoning yourself or collapsing into shame.
9. Inner Leadership Through Attunement
Rather than overriding or controlling internal experience, we support people in developing the capacity to listen inwardly and respond in ways that are aligned, grounded, and self-honoring.
10. Independence Instead of Dependence
Our role isn't to become your inner voice. Our role is to help you strengthen your own. Because the healthiest therapeutic relationship is one that leaves you more connected to yourself, more confident in your choices, and better equipped to navigate life long after therapy has ended.
Trauma is not just about what happened—it’s about how it lives in the body. We focus on nervous system regulation, helping you shift out of survival responses and increase your ability to be with emotions, sensations, and connection at a pace that feels safe.
NARM explores how early relational and developmental wounds shape present-day patterns of connection and self-perception. Instead of focusing on the past, we work with the survival strategies that formed in response to it—helping you develop more agency, self-compassion, and deeper connection to yourself and others.
The body holds the stories of our past. Somatic work helps you tune into body-based patterns, sensations, and nervous system states to gently release stored tension, regulate emotions, and cultivate a sense of ease and safety within yourself.
Our early relationships shape how we experience safety, trust, and connection. This lens helps untangle patterns like people-pleasing, avoidance, fear of intimacy, or relational anxiety—not just through insight, but by shifting how you experience relationships from the inside out.
We all have different parts of ourselves—some protective, some wounded, some wise. IFS helps us understand these inner dynamics with curiosity, so you can move from inner conflict toward integration and self-compassion.
Unconscious patterns and past experiences influence how we show up today. This approach allows us to explore how past relationships, unprocessed emotions, and deeply held beliefs shape your present experiences, offering insight and new possibilities.
You are not broken—your patterns make sense. Through a strengths-based lens, we reframe self-judgment into curiosity, recognizing that survival adaptations come from deep wisdom. Our goal is to help you build a more compassionate, empowered relationship with yourself.
Trauma-Informed & Nervous System Regulation
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Somatic Experiencing® Therapy
Attachment & Relational Depth Work
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Parts Work
Psychodynamic & Meaning-Making Work
Strengths-Based & Self-Compassion Lens
Psychodynamic & Meaning-Making Work
Unconscious patterns and past experiences influence how we show up today. This approach allows us to explore how past relationships, unprocessed emotions, and deeply held beliefs shape your present experiences, offering insight and new possibilities.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Parts Work
We all have different parts of ourselves—some protective, some wounded, some wise. IFS helps us understand these inner dynamics with curiosity, so you can move from inner conflict toward integration and self-compassion.
Our early relationships shape how we experience safety, trust, and connection. This lens helps untangle patterns like people-pleasing, avoidance, fear of intimacy, or relational anxiety—not just through insight, but by shifting how you experience relationships from the inside out.
Attachment & Relational Depth Work
The body holds the stories of our past. Somatic work helps you tune into body-based patterns, sensations, and nervous system states to gently release stored tension, regulate emotions, and cultivate a sense of ease and safety within yourself.
Somatic Experiencing®
NARM explores how early relational and developmental wounds shape present-day patterns of connection and self-perception. Instead of focusing on the past, we work with the survival strategies that formed in response to it—helping you develop more agency, self-compassion, and deeper connection to yourself and others.
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Trauma is not just about what happened—it’s about how it lives in the body. We focus on nervous system regulation, helping you shift out of survival responses and increase your ability to be with emotions, sensations, and connection at a pace that feels safe.
Trauma-Informed & Nervous System Regulation
Modalities We Use
Strengths-Based & Self-Compassion Lens
You are not broken—your patterns make sense. Through a strengths-based lens, we reframe self-judgment into curiosity, recognizing that survival adaptations come from deep wisdom. Our goal is to help you build a more compassionate, empowered relationship with yourself.
Note From Client
“Lauren has a unique ability to make complex trauma feel manageable. I’ve learned how to regulate my nervous system, feel more connected to myself, and trust my body’s wisdom.”
Hi! I’m Lauren Rasmussen (she/her), a Somatic Trauma Psychotherapist and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). I support individuals navigating complex and relational trauma, nervous system dysregulation, emotional overwhelm, and disconnection from self or body.
My work is grounded in a body-based and psychodynamic approach, integrating trauma-informed principles with deep nervous system awareness. I believe that symptoms hold wisdom—our survival strategies are not flaws but adaptations. Together, we create space for curiosity, connection, and the gradual building of internal safety and resilience.
Lauren Rasmussen, M.A., RP (Q), CTP, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Somatic Trauma Psychotherapist | Nervous System & Attachment Specialist
Specializing in Complex Trauma, Relational Wounds, Parts Work, and Body-Based Healing
The Founder: Lauren Rasmussen
A Bit More About Me
Outside of my work, I’m someone who loves slow mornings, movement, and good coffee.. I’m most often found reflecting, writing, or creating resources that help people come back into relationship with themselves. I care deeply about making somatic and trauma-informed care feel human, accessible, and grounded—and I’m honored to do this work.
Areas of Focus & Specializations
✔ Complex Trauma
✔ Relational & Developmental Trauma
✔ Childhood Sexual Trauma & Incest
✔ Borderline Personality & Emotional Dysregulation
✔ Parts Work & Internal Systems
✔ Attachment & Relationship Patterns
✔ Nervous System Regulation
✔ Somatic & Trauma-Informed Practice
✔ Body Image & Disordered Eating
✔ Therapist & Helper Support
Qualifications
✔ Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
✔ RCC (Registered Clinical Counsellor) – Application in Progress
✔ Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology – Yorkville University
✔ Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (emphasis Behavioural Neuroscience), Minor in Spanish – Western Washington University
✔ Certified Trauma Specialist – Arizona Trauma Institute
✔ Certified Holistic Nutrition Coach – NASM
✔ Certified Yoga Instructor – 500-Hour E-RYT, YACEP
Additional Training
✔ Somatic Experiencing® – In Progress (Somatic Experiencing International)
✔ NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) – NARM Training Institute
✔ Somatic Attachment Therapy – The Embody Lab
✔ Internal Family Systems (IFS) – PESI
✔ Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) – Dr. Les Greenberg
✔ Polyvagal Theory – Dr. Stephen Porges
✔The Neurobiology of Attachment & Trauma – Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., MFT
✔ Trauma-Informed Yoga – Lisa Danylchuk, The Center for Yoga & Trauma Recovery
✔ Intuitive Eating & Body Image in Clinical Practice – Intuitive Eating Pros
