You can heal what still feels unfinished.
Exhale the parts of you that learned to survive.
Rachel Hansen, LCSW
EMDRIA Certified Therapist
Trauma-informed therapy for rebuilding safety, trust, and a grounded relationship with yourself, especially if you've spent years functioning at a high level while feeling disconnected.
In-person in Las Vegas · Online in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Jersey
You've probably been managing it well on the outside. Keeping your life running, showing up for the people who need you, getting through the days. But somewhere underneath all of that, something still doesn't feel resolved.
Maybe you've been functioning for years and you're just tired of it costing so much. Maybe your body finally stopped cooperating. The disrupted sleep, the tension, the symptoms that don't have a clean medical explanation. Maybe someone who loves you said something you couldn't unhear.
However you got here, something brought you to this page. And that matters.
What Therapy with Me Feels Like
Becoming real doesn’t happen all at once.
It happens when someone stays through the worn-out, messy parts, and still sees you as worth loving. That's what this is.
You've been the strong one for so long you're not sure who you are without that job. This is a space to put it down.
I'm Rachel, a trauma therapist in Las Vegas specializing in EMDR, religious trauma, and cult exit recovery, working with adults across Nevada, New Jersey, Utah, and Colorado.
Clients often tell me the work felt personal from early on, not like being run through a process, but that I actually took the time to understand what they needed.
You and I are probably not all that different. People who work with me often describe me as consistent in the way that actually matters - not just punctual, but present when the conversation goes somewhere difficult. So many people carry their pain feeling like everyone eventually looks away from it. I don't. We hold it together, with curiosity and compassion, and work through it side by side, because the deepest healing comes from not feeling alone anymore. I support your nervous system's pace, in a space built for safety, and keep your story protected. You already have what you need. My job is to help you trust it.
Therapy with me is an invitation to show up exactly as you are and be met with steadiness people rarely experience.
I do not give up when things get hard.
I use what works best for you, and we figure that out together. Most clients leave each session feeling a little steadier and with one skill or insight they can take into their week.
My primary approaches are EMDR, somatic and nervous system based work, and psychedelic integration therapy for clients who are processing experiences they had on their own. I also support established clients who are working with their own ketamine prescriber. I do not provide or recommend substances. All work here is talk based and fully legal.
You won't get the blank nod or the clock-watching. When you finally open up, I stay with it. I offer real feedback, ask meaningful questions, and help you challenge internal critics that have been running your life for years.
You'll leave sessions with something real -- not just insight, but the ability to tell the difference between an actual threat and your nervous system running an old pattern. You'll learn to stay in your body instead of disappearing from it, and to hold limits that don't collapse under pressure.
You won't be in therapy forever. That's not the goal. The goal is the moment you realize you don't need this space the same way anymore, because you found what you came here looking for.
It happens. I promise.
I work this way because I know what it costs to hold it alone.
I know what healing actually feels like, not as a concept, but as something I lived. And I have hope for you too.
I grew up in an abusive home where safety was not available, and in a church community that protected the people who caused harm. The combination of fear, silence, spiritual pressure, and confusion shaped me in ways I did not understand until I was an adult.
I know what it feels like to be raised in a system that teaches you to ignore your body, distrust your instincts, or believe that suffering is holy. I know the ache of trying to make sense of trauma that happened in places that were supposed to be safe.
My healing came through EMDR, deep trauma therapy, psychedelic integration, learning what safety actually feels like, and slowly reclaiming my voice.
That journey is part of why I specialize in anything on the spectrum of faith deconstruction, religious trauma, and cult exit recovery. I also bring a growing understanding of late diagnosed autism to this work, since I have found in my practice that many people untangling their faith are often also discovering their own neurodivergence at the same time, and I want that layer to feel seen rather than sidelined.
I take care with your story because I carried my own for a long time. This is sacred work.
You do not have to minimize here.
You do not have to prove anything.
Your story deserves to be taken seriously, and I know how to sit with it.
I learned this first in an outpatient rehab in New Jersey, watching how often addiction traced straight back to unresolved trauma. That work deepened my compassion not only for those in recovery but for anyone who learned to survive what was not safe. Whether your coping looks like overworking, perfectionism, caretaking, dissociation, or substances, it is all the same story: a nervous system trying to find relief.
These days I'm married (mostly happily) to my partner of more than 25 years, and we've raised three beautifully messy adult children. I love tea at sunrise, hiking the Nevada mountains, and the beautiful chaos of a life lived awake.
Most people leave the first session saying they didn't realize how much they were holding. That's where we start.
If you’re wondering what it might feel like to talk, we can start with a free call.
Training Keeps You Safe. Connection Is What Heals.
Credentials (But Not the Whole Story)
MSW, Monmouth University
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Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
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NV License #11210-C
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NJ License #44SC06281000
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CO License #CSW.09931953
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UT License #14276777-3501
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Psychedelic Therapy Support
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Colorado Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator #NMCF.0000079
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Psychedelic Integration Therapy: Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) trained; supporting clients before, during (where legally permitted), and after psychedelic experiences
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy: trained through Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI)
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Psychedelic Therapy: coming when legally available in Nevada, currently available in Colorado (Learn more about Psychedelic Therapy Facilitation in Colorado)
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Therapeutic Training & Specializations
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EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ (EMDR)
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Beck-trained CBT therapist for thought loops and self-criticism
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Specialized in emotional regulation and nervous system healing
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Author of Beyond Insight: A Self-Guided, Phase-Based Trauma Journaling Companion, a workbook pairing sixty clinical exercises with reflective prompts across four phases of trauma recovery, built from years of clinical practice.
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Training matters.
But what matters more is that in our work together you feel safe enough to be fully, fiercely yourself.