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Trauma Therapy for High-Achieving Adults Worn Out from Survival Mode
in Las Vegas, Nevada, and New Jersey

A safe and empowering place to tap out, be messy, and renew trust in yourself.

Begin Your Healing

Sound familiar?

If you nod even once, you’re in the right place.

Trust Wounds

Trust wrecked by betrayal
Boundaries that collapse on impact
Church hurt still echoing in places that were supposed to be safe
Feeling like "people don’t want me around"
Carrying shame so deep it impacts every relationship

Internal Battles

Thought loops that never shut off
Anxiety like a second heartbeat
Emotions you can’t outrun
Expectations breaking your back: "I have to be perfect — nothing can go wrong"
Wondering, "Am I broken?" or "Why don’t people love me? What am I doing wrong?"

Survival Patterns

Pleasing everyone but yourself: "I'm easy to compromise, go with the flow"
Dodging conflict — and yourself
Feeling like "if I don’t do it, it doesn’t get done"
Controlling everything because letting go feels too dangerous
Living as the "bad guy" in your own story

Deep Fears

Fear of abandonment, being forgotten, or alone forever
Fear of passing down the hurt you swore you'd never repeat
Fear that letting people see the real you will destroy everything
Fear that every milestone your child reaches reopens wounds you barely survived

Worn-out Coping

Substances and vices to numb the ache: "I don't know who that person is who came out of me"
Burnout so deep even rest feels like failure
Perfectionism eating you alive from the inside out
Emotional shutdown: "I should be feeling, but I don't"

It doesn’t have to stay this way.

You don’t have to be perfect.
You don’t have to have a plan.

You just have to show up — messy, human, and real.

Healing begins when you stop trying to earn your worth — and start remembering it was never lost.

Relief for the strong.

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Rachel Hansen LCSW providing online trauma therapy in Las Vegas and New Jersey

Hi, I’m Rachel Hansen, LCSW — a trauma therapist based in Las Vegas and an online counselor for adults across Nevada and New Jersey.

I've spent years helping people heal the parts of themselves they thought were too messy, too broken, or too far gone.

You don't have to believe you can heal yet — I’ll hold that hope for you until you can.

You can learn more about me here.

About Rachel

SPECIALTIES

Faith Deconstruction & Trust Issues

Untangling Relationship Wreckage and Trust Issues You want closeness. You want connection. But the second someone gets too close, you either bolt, self-destruct, or armor up. Maybe you trust too fast, or maybe you trust no one. Either way, it’s exhausting. Now you're standing in the wreckage — grieving, raging, doubting everything — wondering if you'll ever feel whole again. Here, we make space for the wreckage. Here, we start sorting through what you actually want to build instead. Here, you don't have to defend your grief. You just get to be human.

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Anxiety, Depression, & Emotional Resilience

The world sees strength. You feel the cracks. Outwardly, you have it all together. Inside, you're wondering, How does everyone else do it? The world moves around you, and you’re barely hanging on. It's overwhelming to admit you can't do everything. Behind the calm is panic, second-guessing, and soul crushing expectations that all of this should be doable. The control freak. The people pleaser. The bone-deep fear that one mistake will tear it all down — and expose how you really feel: not good enough. You don't have to be so angry with yourself. You can feel whole. You can feel satisfied. You can meet yourself with compassion instead of criticism.

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Childhood Trauma & PTSD

Healing Childhood Messes So You Don't Pass Them On You want to let it go so badly. You want peace. You want freedom. You want relief of internal pain and confusion. Maybe it was emotional abuse. Maybe it was neglect, betrayal, or the silence that followed the hurt. Maybe it was what no child should have to survive. Here, we make space for the wounds and the PTSD they left behind — and start untangling what survival stitched into you. You don’t have to pass down what hurt you. You get to raise yourself differently first.

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Substance Recovery & Addictions

Not Everything You Survived Needs to Come With You Substance use was never the problem. It was the survival strategy. The shield. The silence-breaker. The pain-duller. "I just want to numb out." "I deserve it after a hard day." "I don't even know what triggers me anymore." Maybe the thing that once saved you now feels like a trap you can’t escape. Maybe you’re constantly fighting with yourself — trying to survive, trying to slow down, trying to breathe. You’re not broken because you reached for relief. You’re human. Here, we don’t shame the survival strategies. We honor what they carried — and help you find new ways to carry yourself instead.

Healing Isn't Pretty.
It's Brave As Hell.

Start Here — Your Healing, Your Pace.

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Get started with a few real questions — no pressure, no scripts.

Book a free 20-minute consultation with me, a trauma therapist in Las Vegas serving New Jersey virtually — no forms, no fees, just space to ask questions, share what’s real, and see if we’re the right fit.

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Build a therapy plan that meets you exactly where you are.

If it feels like a good match, we’ll schedule your first full session — online or in-person — and set up everything you’ll need, including a therapy plan that meets you exactly where you are, not where you “should” be.

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Finally feel at peace with yourself — even when life feels messy.

This is a space to lay it all down: the grief, the exhaustion, the hope you’re scared to have. You’re not here to be "fixed." You’re here to reclaim yourself.
We'll work gently with your nervous system — not against it — to rebuild trust and resilience from the inside out.

You don’t have to keep swallowing it down.
You don’t have to keep bracing for the worst.

I can help you exhale.

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Trauma Therapy for High-Achieving Adults Worn Out from Survival Mode in Las Vegas, Nevada, and New Jersey