Laverna Soucie , LPC

Laverna Soucie is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who brings a broad blend of clinical training and medical experience to her work. Based in Georgia, she holds a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and a certificate in Trauma Therapy, and she draws on those qualifications to support individuals, couples, and families through a range of concerns.

Her clinical background includes work with couples, families, college students, and children ages eight through the teen years. She provides premarital counseling, marriage therapy, sex therapy, and individual therapy, and she has supported people coping with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, adoption-related issues, and adjustment disorders. Laverna emphasizes understanding each person from their own perspective and considers healing to involve physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual systems.

She favors emotionally focused therapy and narrative therapy while also incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and family systems approaches into her practice. Trained in EMDR, she has found it especially useful when addressing trauma. Before transitioning to counseling, Laverna practiced as a registered nurse for 20 years, earning a Bachelor of Science from Baylor University and spending 13 years as a hospice nurse. That medical background informs her approach to end-of-life care and grief work. Laverna listens for each person s story and aims to collaborate on a path forward.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people and couples explore patterns of emotional response and attachment, creating new ways to connect and resolve relational distress. It is especially useful for relationship and intimacy difficulties and for rebuilding trust and closeness.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing practical strategies to change them. CBT is often applied to anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management to teach coping skills and problem solving.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) uses structured processing to help reduce the lingering impact of traumatic memories and intense emotional reactions. It is commonly used for trauma and abuse related concerns and for reducing symptoms that interfere with daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so the approach evolves with the client's progress.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to receive care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules or to connect from different locations. Licensed professionals can use these formats to provide consistent support, accommodate different communication styles, and maintain continuity of care when in person visits are not possible.