Empowering you to heal so you can discover life beyond survival mode.
Fast & effective therapy and EMDR intensives for adults in Florida.
Are you anxious, overwhelmed, stressed and feeling stuck in patterns and situations that aren’t serving you?
Do you find it hard to feel and express your emotions, set boundaries, and truly take care of yourself? Maybe you aren’t even sure who you are because you’ve spent so much time just trying to cope and caring for everyone else. You want to move forward but feel weighed down by distressing symptoms and past experiences.
What if there was a way to truly heal from and resolve your pain and discomfort?
What if you could do more than just cope, but begin to live life filled with resilience, confidence and contentment?
Whether you know exactly what happened to you, or you aren’t sure why you feel so uncomfortable, it is absolutely possible to hit the reset button, exit survival mode, and feel completely different than you do right now.
TALK THERAPY DOESN’T CUT IT
I’m Leah Gooley, LMHC. I’ve been in the field for a decade and I firmly believe therapy should be about more than just talking, coping skills and worksheets. It should be a space that facilitates genuine healing and resolution - because these things are totally possible if you’re working with the right person who uses the right tools.
I completely understand if you’ve hesitated to start therapy because it hasn’t worked for you in the past, or because you simply don’t have time for weekly appointments if they aren’t going to result in real, tangible results.
Maybe you’re brushing off your past experiences, minimizing your own discomfort, or are convinced that how you feel right now is as good as it’s going to get. I hear you and I want you to know that no matter what has happened to you, and no matter what your current circumstances are, real healing is possible.
You’re looking at this page because you want to feel better once and for all, which is why I use techniques proven to be fast and highly effective.
Together we will work with evidence-based tools like Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS). These tools will help you identify, fully accept and clear negative experiences, past traumas, and unhelpful cycles and patterns from your brain and body much faster than traditional therapy, significantly reducing or eliminating the symptoms that brought you to therapy in the first place.
What Brings You Here?
Anxiety & Worry
Are you always worried, on-edge, hypervigilant, or irritated? Perhaps you have a constant, underlying sense of unease and dread. Anxiety shows up in many ways, and sometimes the symptoms can feel downright debilitating, making it really hard to function and care for yourself or others.
Maybe you are not even sure why you feel so anxious, but you’re unable to remember a time when you didn’t feel like this. Together, we will work to heal the root cause of your anxiety, which is usually a result of unprocessed past experiences that caused your nervous system to become stuck in a cycle of automatic stress responses.
As we address, process, and clear these experiences from your body, you exit the negative loop of thoughts, triggers and symptoms and discover the feeling of safety in your mind and body.
Trauma & Wounds
We often downplay or are unaware of the impact of negative personal experiences, especially if they happened in childhood or in the distant past. Even without realizing it, these experiences can leave us deeply wounded, altering our emotions, behaviors, and our ability to function and connect with ourselves and others.
As an adult, you might find yourself coping with a host of confusing and bothersome mental, emotional and physical symptoms that leave you unable to fully experience life in the present.
I will guide you as you become aware of, process and clear the wounds of your past. Once you have fully processed, you will notice the thoughts, feelings, situations and people that used to trigger you have lost their grip, and your symptoms will be reduced or eliminated altogether.
Therapy for Parents
Conscious parenting isn't just about managing the daily routines or handling challenges that come with raising children; it's about understanding the patterns, habits, and behaviors you've carried with you from your own upbringing.
Do you ever find yourself reacting to your child in ways you promised you never would? Do you feel like certain situations with your children and family trigger an automatic response that doesn’t align with who you really are? Maybe you’re watching cycles from your own childhood play out in your parenting and your relationships with your partner and other family members.
By addressing, processing and finally clearing these old patterns, you’ll pave a new path, not just for yourself and your children but for future generations to come.
EMDR INTENSIVES
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Accelerate your healing and experience transformation in days, not years.
Intensives are ideal for those who desire rapid and efficient resolution of long-held wounds and unhelpful cycles, those who need urgent intervention for trauma or debilitating symptoms and those who haven’t experienced the transformation they desire in traditional therapy.
EMDR intensives range from 1-3 days and are holistically tailored for you and your specific needs and goals. Together we will resolve deep-rooted issues swiftly and bring forth transformative, long-lasting change.
Intensives are ideal for busy individuals, those feeling stalled in weekly therapy, and parents who need quick, profound healing for the benefit of their family.
“First comes the pain, then comes the rising.”
Invest in yourself. Watch your life change. Transform how you move through the world, how you engage with the people you love, the way you show up for yourself.
