Laverna Soucie is a licensed professional counselor based in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She earned a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and completed a certificate in Trauma Therapy.

She has worked with couples, families, college students, and children ages eight through the teen years, providing premarital counseling, marriage therapy, sex therapy, and individual therapy. Her clinical work has addressed anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, adoption-related issues, and adjustment disorders.

Before becoming a therapist, she practiced as a registered nurse for 20 years after earning a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University. Thirteen of those years were spent as a hospice nurse, making end-of-life care and grief counseling a significant part of her professional background. She weaves that medical experience into her therapeutic work.

Her approach centers on understanding each person from their point of view and on a holistic view of healing – recognizing how physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual systems interact. She especially values emotionally focused therapy and narrative therapy while also drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and family systems approaches. She is trained in EMDR and finds it especially useful when working with trauma.

She is licensed to practice professional counseling in both Texas and Tennessee (state counseling licenses TX LPC 82600 and TN LPC 5736). She looks forward to hearing each client’s story and collaborating with them in the healing process.