Tara Sorenson

The impact of trauma often reaches beyond a single event, shaping how we experience ourselves, connect with others, and navigate the world around us. I work with individuals navigating trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and addiction, with a particular focus on first responders and healthcare professionals who carry the weight of high-stress roles every day. I understand the toll that chronic exposure to crisis takes — not just on the mind, but on the nervous system, the body, and the sense of self. My approach is steady, collaborative, and built on the belief that healing is always within reach.

As a Certified EMDR Therapist, I specialize in helping clients process the experiences that continue to shape their present, even when those experiences feel distant or buried. I draw on EMDR, EFT, and CBT to address both the cognitive and physiological roots of trauma, because lasting change happens at every level, not just the surface.

A significant part of my work involves helping clients understand their own nervous system — why it responds the way it does, what it's protecting, and how to work with it rather than against it. That understanding changes everything.

No two people arrive at therapy carrying the same story. Your history, relationships, identities, and experiences are uniquely yours, and your healing should reflect that. I take a holistic, personalized approach that adapts as you grow, focusing on the patterns keeping you stuck and the strengths that will carry you forward.

Together we'll build emotional awareness, develop practical tools, and work toward something that feels genuinely sustainable, not just within our sessions, but in how you move through the world every day.

The goal isn't simply to feel better in the short term. It's to understand yourself more deeply, respond to life's challenges with greater resilience, and build something that holds.

EMDR changed the way I think about healing — because it works not just on what you think about your experiences, but on how your body and nervous system still carry them. For clients who have tried talking about their trauma without feeling truly free of it, this work often feels different. Quieter. More precise. The past doesn't disappear, but it loses its grip. That's what I'm here to help you find.

Most people don't come to therapy looking for a formula — they come because something isn't working and they're ready to figure out why. I meet clients there, with an approach that's evidence-based but never rigid. Trauma, relationship patterns, the weight of a high-stress career — we'll get to the root of it, not just the surface. Clarity and confidence aren't destinations. They're things we build, session by session, in real time.