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Trauma therapy in Spokane, WA and Washington State for Religious Trauma, PTSD, Identity Reconstruction, and Relational Healing

What’s the Story You’re Living Out Of?

  • That you’re broken.

  • You’re too much.

  • In order to be liked, you can’t be yourself.

  • It’s your job to be responsible for everyone else— their feelings, their comfort, their lifestyle — and you’re so tired of feeling like you don’t get to exist.

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We all have experiences that tell us a story about who we are. Some stories are bigger than others and impact us in different ways.

Some of those stories tell us we have to people-please in order to be liked. Other stories tell us that maybe “it wasn’t that bad”, but we feel can’t stop thinking about what happened to us. And still others, tell us that we should feel guilty for leaving an abusive church environment, guilty for setting boundaries, and guilty for taking up space.

These stories are making life pretty hard. You can’t maintain friendships, you feel like you’ll never succeed, you’ve become a version of your mom or dad and you hate it.

It’s only by going back to those places of pain that we’d rather avoid that we can begin again. We have to look at the stories you’re living out of to even begin to create new ones.

But you’re not alone. I’ll go with you and we’ll figure it out together.

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You might be here if you’ve experienced:

  • Religious Trauma or Church Hurt

  • Faith Deconstruction or Spiritual Confusion

  • You Don’t Have Balance at Work and You’re Not Sure How to Manage the Stress

  • Identity Reconstruction After a Life Transition

  • PTSD or Unresolved Trauma

  • Childhood Wounds that Affect Life Today

  • People-Pleasing or Difficulty Setting Boundaries

  • Anxiety, Disconnection, or Emotional Overwhelm

  • Relationship Patterns that Feel Hard to Change

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Therapy isn’t about fixing you.

It’s about getting into the nitty-gritty of the patterns that helped you survive — and deciding what helps and what sabotages.

Our work is fully collaborative, deeply relational, and paced to help you integrate what you learn about yourself. We don’t rush because healing takes time.

You may wonder if you have to have it all figured out to start therapy. You don’t. You just have to be willing to start.

In our work, we may talk about:

  • The fear of stepping outside of your church’s authority and the impact of spiritual bypassing

  • The loneliness of stepping away from a community that once felt like home (whether family or religious community)

  • The ache of having relational ruptures and wondering “What’s wrong with me that people don’t stay with me?”

  • The parts of you that long to be seen, but learned to hide in order to survive

  • The way people-pleasing served you but now seems to sabotage you

  • How to reconstruct your sense of identity after years of abandoning yourself

  • Addressing the chronic stress and trauma that keeps you stuck

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“Our wounds are the openings into the best and most beautiful parts of us.”

—David Richo

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Who I am…

I’m Jacqui Nelson — childfree by choice, dog mom, wine lover, and religious trauma survivor.

I’m a trauma therapist who believes that this only works if you can come-as-you-are and be yourself.

I value story-work, getting vulnerable, and want to invest in deep, emotional work with you.

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