About Lorrie

Masters in Clinical Counseling and Art Therapy (2005, Sante Fe, NM), Wisconsin LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) Minnesota LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor), with ongoing advanced trainings in EMDR therapy, brainspotting, and body-mind/somatic approaches. I maintain ongoing education requirements and participate in advanced training programs to stay current with evolving trauma therapy research and techniques.

My specialized training includes continuous advanced education in EMDR, brainspotting, and somatic-based modalities, as well as a clinical hypnotherapy certification through the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Additional training includes complex trauma treatment approaches, nervous system regulation techniques, and mindfulness-based therapeutic interventions that inform my integrative approach to healing.

Before transitioning to clinical practice, I spent years as an art educator, working with students to access creativity, self-expression, and inner resources through artistic processes. This background deeply informs my therapeutic approach, understanding how healing often occurs through non-verbal, creative, and embodied pathways.

Teaching art developed my appreciation for how transformation happens through process rather than just outcome, how each person's creative expression is unique and valid, and how accessing deeper dimensions of awareness can unlock natural healing capacities.

This artistic foundation brings unique elements to my therapeutic practice, including appreciation for non-linear healing processes, comfort with accessing altered states of consciousness, understanding of how creativity and trauma healing intersect, and ability to help clients trust their own inner knowing and wisdom.

My approach draws from ancient wisdom traditions that understand consciousness, suffering, and the natural capacity for awakening and healing. This perspective recognizes that suffering often arises from disconnection from our true nature and that healing involves returning to awareness of our inherent wholeness and connection to something greater than ourselves.

This integration creates space for viewing symptoms not as pathology but as signals from your deeper intelligence, understanding healing as a natural process that can be supported rather than forced, recognizing the interconnection of mind, body, and spirit in therapeutic work, and honoring each person's unique path to awareness and integration.

Universal spiritual principles inform my understanding of how consciousness works, the nature of thoughts and emotions, the importance of present-moment awareness, and the recognition that healing wisdom already exists within each person as part of our divine nature.

My training and experience include extensive work with accessing and navigating altered states of consciousness for healing. This includes understanding how trauma affects consciousness and awareness, techniques for safely accessing deeper dimensions of healing, integration of insights and healing that emerge from expanded awareness, and support for clients' natural capacity to access inner wisdom.

Specialized expertise in complex trauma treatment recognizes how developmental and repeated trauma affects nervous system development, the importance of building safety and resources before processing traumatic material, how attachment patterns influence adult relationships and healing capacity, and integration approaches that support lasting transformation rather than symptom management.

With extensive experience adapting specialized trauma therapies for virtual delivery, I've developed effective methods for providing EMDR, brainspotting, and body-mind psychotherapy through secure video platforms. This includes innovative techniques for bilateral stimulation in virtual EMDR sessions, precise eye positioning guidance for virtual brainspotting, and effective somatic and hypnotherapy approaches adapted for telehealth.

Virtual therapy requires particular attention to creating safety and connection across digital platforms. My approach emphasizes establishing therapeutic presence through video sessions, helping clients create optimal environments for deep work, maintaining strong therapeutic boundaries and ethical practices in virtual settings, and ensuring technical accessibility while preserving therapeutic depth.

My therapeutic philosophy centers on supporting your access to your own deeper wisdom and healing capacity rather than positioning myself as the expert who fixes problems. This means trusting your nervous system's natural healing intelligence, creating conditions for your innate wholeness to emerge, and working collaboratively to remove obstacles to your natural aliveness and authentic expression.

Effective trauma therapy must address the whole person, recognizing that traumatic experiences affect physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of being. My approach integrates evidence-based neurological understanding with recognition of consciousness and spiritual dimensions of healing, honoring both scientific research and ancient wisdom traditions, and creating space for your unique healing process to unfold.

Each person's healing journey is unique, requiring individualized approaches rather than one-size-fits-all methods. My role is facilitating your connection with your deeper knowing, adapting therapeutic techniques to match your unique nervous system and processing style, and creating space for whatever healing wants to emerge rather than forcing predetermined outcomes.

I maintain active participation in continuing education programs, including brainspotting advanced training workshops, somatic therapy and nervous system regulation seminars, consciousness and trauma conferences, ongoing ethics training, and contemplative practice retreats and spiritual study that inform my therapeutic perspective.

This work represents the intersection of my deepest interests and commitments, including supporting people's access to their authentic selves, witnessing the profound resilience and healing wisdom that exists within each person, and contributing to approaches that honor both scientific understanding and spiritual dimensions of healing.

My own journey with meditation, mindfulness practice, creative expression, and consciousness exploration informs my understanding of how healing happens and my ability to accompany others through their own transformative processes.

I'm committed to making effective trauma therapy accessible regardless of geographic location or financial circumstances. This includes offering virtual sessions across Wisconsin and Minnesota, providing sliding scale options for those experiencing financial hardship, and maintaining practice approaches that honor each person's dignity and inherent wholeness.

Our work together will be fundamentally collaborative, with your experiences, wisdom, and goals guiding our therapeutic process. I bring expertise in specialized trauma therapy techniques, Body - Mind awareness and 20 years experience, while honoring your role as the expert on your own experience and healing needs.

Treatment approaches are tailored to your unique nervous system, trauma history, and healing goals. Some clients benefit from primarily one therapeutic modality, while others find combining approaches creates more comprehensive healing. We'll explore together what feels most beneficial for your specific situation.

I'm committed to providing skilled, compassionate support for your healing journey while maintaining appropriate boundaries and professional standards. This includes ongoing availability for sessions and support within professional guidelines, transparency about treatment approaches and what to expect, and collaboration with other providers when beneficial for your comprehensive care.