TRAUMA THERAPY IN LAS VEGAS
You built around the pain.
Now your body can finally exhale.
Trauma therapy in Las Vegas for adults ready to stop repeating the same patterns. EMDR certified, somatic informed, and nervous system-based care for childhood trauma, burnout, and anything on the spectrum of faith deconstruction, religious trauma, and cult exit recovery.
Rachel Hansen, LCSW · EMDRIA Certified Therapist
If you grew up in chaos, control, or silence, it makes sense that your body still feels unsafe.
You did what you had to do. You got out, held it together, kept moving. And somehow you're still exhausted. That's not a character flaw. That's a nervous system that never got the memo that it's over.
From the outside, you probably look fine. Capable. Strong. Definitely successful.
But your nervous system has been carrying more than anyone sees.
Anxiety and Overthinking That Won't Stop
Thought loops that never shut off. Anxiety that feels like a second heartbeat, a companion your entire life. Feeling "broken," "too much," or "never enough." Always on high alert, waiting for something to go wrong, never quite able to explain why, even bracing before good things happen. Wondering why it feels like something is wrong with you at your core. Leaving the beliefs behind, but not the fear of getting it wrong.
People-Pleasing, Perfectionism, and Burnout
People-pleasing and fawning to stay safe. Avoiding conflict because it was dangerous growing up. Hyper-independence: doing it all yourself because asking for help feels worse. Redoing things that were already fine because “good enough” never feels safe. Carrying everyone else's feelings while quietly wondering if you're just being a drama queen, blowing things out of proportion. Burnout so deep even rest doesn't fix it.
Dissociation, Numbness, and Feeling Disconnected
Moving through life on autopilot. Feeling caged inside yourself. Present enough to function, absent enough to wonder where you went. Not knowing what you actually feel because feeling went offline a long time ago.
Most people who find their way here have already done a lot of work. Therapy, books, podcasts, years of figuring it out. They understand their patterns. What they haven’t found yet is a way for their body to believe it’s over.
I've heard it more times than you'd think:
"I've never been in the driver's seat of my own life."
"I don't know who I am when I'm not the strong one."
You already know how to survive. Now you get to start living. The goal isn’t more insight. It’s being able to rest without guilt, say no without panic, and find out who you are when you’re not in survival mode.
Trauma Therapy Services in Las Vegas
Trauma therapy rooted in EMDR, nervous system work, and specialized care for the experiences that shaped you most. Serving adults seeking anxiety therapy, trauma therapy, and somatic therapy in Las Vegas and online.
Trauma Therapy
For adults carrying the weight of complex trauma, childhood wounds, or the impact of surviving what should never have happened. EMDR and nervous system-based care, tailored to what you actually need.
Cult Exit Recovery Therapy
For adults recovering from religious cults, MLM structures, wellness cults, and political high-control groups. You don't have to call it a cult to start.
Psychedelic Integration Therapy
For adults processing intense or altered-state experiences who want safe, confidential, trauma-informed support. Legal, substance-free integration therapy in Las Vegas and online.
Religious Trauma Therapy
For adults healing from spiritual abuse, purity culture, shame-based religion, and high-control faith systems. You don't have to have your beliefs figured out before you start.
Somatic Informed Therapy
For adults whose bodies are still holding what talk therapy alone hasn't reached. Nervous system regulation, parts work, and breathwork to help you feel safe in your body again.
Learn more about somatic informed therapy →
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
For established clients ready to go deeper than talk therapy alone. KAP combines ketamine prescribed by your medical provider with trauma-informed support for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. In-person in Las Vegas.
EMDR Therapy in Las Vegas
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based trauma therapy that works gently with your nervous system, not against it. EMDR helps your nervous system soften, release the fear it’s been holding, and recognize: “I’m safe now.”
Release the stuck places, safely
You don’t have to re-tell your story or relive anything.
You stay in control of the pace the whole way through.
Want to move faster? EMDR Intensives offer focused work over a few days instead of weekly sessions.
REAL RESULTS FROM MY PRACTICE
83%
of the specific memories we work on in EMDR fully resolve within two 90-minute sessions. Most take about two hours of reprocessing.
This measures reprocessing time for each memory. How long it takes to feel safe enough to start is different for everyone, and we go at the pace your nervous system needs.
Based on 179 EMDR targets tracked in my practice.
Meet Rachel Hansen, LCSW
I'm Rachel Hansen, LCSW, a licensed trauma therapist in Las Vegas. I work with high-functioning adults carrying childhood trauma, sexual abuse, or the weight of growing up in high-control, shame-based homes, often in ways no one around them can see. My specialty is EMDR therapy for complex trauma, PTSD treatment, and post-trauma support, with a deep focus on religious trauma, purity culture, and cult exit recovery.
While so much of my work with clients intersects with faith, I also work deeply with childhood trauma on its own terms, wherever it shows up in your life.
I 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. My work is gentle, steady, and rooted in somatic informed therapy in Las Vegas and nervous system work, helping your body finally feel safe in ways it never had the chance to before.
For over a decade, I’ve helped people heal the parts of themselves they thought were too much, too broken, or too far gone.
I work best with people who are ready to go beneath the surface, even when that feels uncertain.
For most people, the first session is the first time they've felt their nervous system settle. Not fixed. Just finally allowed to land somewhere.
In-person therapy in Las Vegas and virtual trauma therapy for clients across Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Jersey.
You don’t have to keep swallowing it down.
You don’t have to keep bracing for the worst.
I can help you exhale.
Here’s how we start.
Book a free 20-minute consult.
We’ll talk about what’s bringing you in and whether we’re the right fit.
If it feels right, we schedule your first 90-minute session.
Thrive Well Therapy is private-pay. Current rates are on the Rates and Services page.
This probably isn’t the right fit if you need to use insurance, want talk therapy that stays on the surface, or are in crisis and need more support than weekly sessions.