Hailey Lauer (she/her/they/them)

Sensorimotor

I completed Level I Sensorimotor Psychotherapy which is at the leading edge of somatic psychotherapies for treating trauma. This approach deeply informs everything else I do and more than anything else is what my clients tell me makes the decisive, sometimes seemingly magic, difference in their treatment. It's a beautiful, elegant, flexible approach that truly helps the client develop their inner resources and capacity to live fully. Also a powerful tool for treating persistent pain.

Hypnotherapy

Clinical hypnosis is not only one of the most robustly evidence-based treatment modalities that exists, it is also strength-based, creative, playful, elegant, and empowering. It is not something I "do" to my client, but rather a collaborative process skill that you can develop with guidance to transform your experience of life both mentally and physically. It is a delight and I use self-hypnosis every day. Also a powerful tool for treating persistent pain.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy

This very playful, creative, and respectful approach to therapy invites some radically different sorts of healing conversations, and shows up in almost every session I do. Finding out 'what's right about you," and how to mobilize that to transform challenges into sources of joy and success can be a most delightful experience. This approach allows me to tailor what I do very precisely to the specific interests, values, and needs of each client; nothing generic or cookie cutter here!

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

My work with IFS goes beyond the limits of most practitioners because of the way that I deepen it with my training in clinical hypnosis, sensorimotor psychotherapy, and ego state therapy. IFS allows the engagement of self as interconnected "parts" which can allow for a very humanizing, empowering, graceful, and sometimes almost magical experience in therapy.

Transpersonal

I actively engage clients around spirituality and spiritual experience. This may include working with mythic imagery, ritual, sigils, divination, guided imagery, etc. This approach can yield some exquisite, beautiful, and powerful transformation experiences, and allows me to attend very closely to each client's unique values and qualities.

Chronic Pain or Illness

I have extensive training in the physiology, neurophysiology, and immunology of persistent pain, including particular interests in central sensitization Ehlers-Danlos/hypermobility, fibromyalgia, IBS, and persistent pain following traumatic injuries. I can help you not only reduce the emotional and relational impact of pain, but help you learn how to reduce or resolve your pain with clinical hypnosis and pain reprocessing therapy. I have successfully treated my own pain with these methods.

PTSD

I have a profound understanding of the neurophysiology of trauma, the importance of building trust, and the skills to pace the work to make it therapeutic and not retraumatizing. My training in sensorimotor psychotherapy, internal family systems, EMDR, and clinical hypnosis grants me a remarkable range of skills and approaches for treating trauma. Perhaps more importantly, I have overcome my own severe (c)PTSD and this makes me particularly suited to guiding others on the path of healing.

LGBTQ Issues

As a queer, pansexual, nonbinary transwoman, I am profoundly attuned to the unique journeys that being LGBTQIA2S+ entails. My practice is particularly focused on working with members of our community as they navigate their own identities, relationships, experiences of marginalization and oppression, and their unique healing needs.

Autism

As a late diagnosed autistic, I am well acquainted with the grieving process of coming to terms with ablism. As autism is a special interest, I am constantly educating myself further as to its expression, meaning, and how to find in it cause to celebrate life. I also have a deep understanding of the way autism can constellate with factors such as PTSD, OCD, anxiety, hypermobility, substance use, and being trans.

Spirituality

If you are drawn or connected to non-mainstream spiritualities, you will find me to be educated, understanding, and engaged. I regularly incorporate spiritual practice into my work, always in a collaborate and creative process with my client. This can include divination, sigil magic, visualization, ritual, dream work, and discussion of mythology and philosophy.