Hi, I'm Lauren! I believe healing happens in safe, secure relationships. My goal is to create a space where you feel understood, supported, and respected while exploring the experiences that shaped your relationship patterns.

My journey to becoming a trauma therapist began with my own search for healing.

For years, I moved from counselor to counselor trying to understand and heal from depression, anxiety, grief, and the effects of traumatic experiences. Traditional talk therapy gave me insight, but insight alone wasn’t always enough. I could understand why I felt the way I did and still feel as though my past was showing up in my present.

There was another piece that was often missing: ADHD.

I struggled to find therapists who understood ADHD as more than difficulty focusing or staying organized. I needed someone who could understand how ADHD shaped the way I experienced emotions, relationships, rejection, overwhelm, memory, and even the process of therapy itself. I wanted care that could see my trauma through a neurodivergent lens, rather than treating ADHD and trauma as completely separate experiences.

Eventually, following a period of traumatic grief after the death of my father, I found trauma-focused therapy. For the first time, I experienced what it was like to go beyond talking about what had happened and begin processing the experiences my mind and body had been carrying for years.

That experience changed the direction of my life—and eventually, my work.

Today, I provide the kind of therapeutic space I once searched for: one where trauma and neurodivergence can be understood together.

As a neurodivergent trauma therapist, I work especially with women with ADHD who have experienced relational, attachment, childhood, and other forms of trauma. My approach recognizes that healing may look different for a neurodivergent nervous system. Therapy doesn’t have to require you to mask, communicate perfectly, organize your story neatly, or fit yourself into a therapeutic approach that wasn’t designed with your brain in mind.

My work is grounded in safety, connection, and growth. I integrate trauma-focused and neurodivergent-affirming approaches, including EMDR and the W-CAT model, to help clients process painful experiences, understand themselves with greater compassion, strengthen their relationships, and build lives that are no longer organized around survival.

Tranquil Trauma Therapy grew from the belief that you shouldn’t have to choose between having your trauma understood and having your neurodivergence understood. You deserve space for both.

You are safe to soften here.