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

Therapy for people making sense of church hurt, attachment wounds, and the ways in which the past intrudes into your present life.

Our Services

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Healing rarely begins as a decision. It’s often starts to take shape as a discomfort that you can’t quite ignore anymore.

This discomfort might show up in your relationships, your body, or the way your thoughts race around unchecked. You might feel it in the aftermath of leaving a faith community, in patterns that don’t make sense, or in a pervasive kind of gut-knowing that something hasn’t quite resolved.

I offer trauma therapy in-person in Spokane, WA and via telehealth in WA State. Individuals I see are navigating religious trauma, PTSD, and attachment wounds — I help you make sense of what you’ve experienced and how it continues to shape your everyday life.

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You might be here if you’re experiencing:

  • Religious Trauma or Church Hurt

  • Faith Deconstruction

  • Spiritual Confusion

  • Identity Work

  • PTSD or Unresolved Trauma

  • 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.

Areas I Specialize In:

  • Religious Trauma Therapy

  • PTSD & Trauma Recovery

  • Attachment & Relational Therapy

  • Identity & Life Transitions

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

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

—David Richo

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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.

Who I am…