Laverna Soucie , LPC

Laverna Soucie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who brings a blend of clinical training and medical experience to her work. She holds a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and completed a certificate in Trauma Therapy, and she has specialized training in EMDR, an approach often used with trauma. Before becoming a therapist she practiced as a registered nurse for 20 years, including 13 years in hospice care after earning her Bachelor of Science from Baylor University, and she integrates that medical background into her therapeutic work.

Laverna has experience working with couples, families, college students, and children from age 8 through adolescence. She offers premarital counseling, marriage therapy, sex therapy, and individual therapy, addressing concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, adoption and adjustment issues, and relationship and family problems. Her broader specialties include stress, parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem and career concerns, and coping with life changes.

Her approach centers on understanding each person from their own perspective and honoring the many systems that shape healing - physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. She favors emotionally focused and narrative work while integrating cognitive behavioral tools, family systems thinking, acceptance and commitment strategies, and EMDR when appropriate. Laverna aims to create a collaborative space to hear each client’s story and to support growth and healing across life stages.

Approaches for Online Relationship and Trauma Work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape emotional responses and connection patterns. In practice this approach helps people and couples uncover how needs for safety and closeness influence current behavior and can guide work on trust, intimacy, and attachment wounds.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a practical, skills-oriented approach that examines the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop concrete strategies for managing anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and everyday stressors.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on the emotional experiences within relationships. EFT helps partners and individuals recognize and restructure interaction patterns so emotions can be expressed in ways that foster greater connection and understanding.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Laverna works collaboratively with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to tailor methods that fit each person or couple. She views treatment as a partnership and adjusts techniques as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit consistent care into busy lives, manage transitions, and access licensed professionals from different locations.