Trauma-focused psychotherapy · Pennsylvania & Arizona
Your symptoms make sense.
Together, we'll uncover the path to healing through trauma-focused, embodied care.
New clients begin with a free initial telehealth consultation. Brave Embers Wellness serves adults 21 and older.
Telehealth for adults across Pennsylvania and Arizona.
Trained. Licensed. Trusted.
- LPC — Licensed Professional Counselor (PA & AZ)
- CCTP-II — Certified Clinical Trauma Professional II
- Certified SSP Provider
- Trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Level 1)
- HEALers Circle — Project HEAL
- Verified on Psychology Today
The premise
Not what's wrong. What makes sense.
Rather than focusing on what's "wrong" with you, I view symptoms as adaptive responses to life experiences and work to understand them with curiosity and compassion.
Healing happens when we feel safe enough to reconnect with ourselves — with our bodies, our stories, and the parts of us that have been carrying so much for so long.
Whatever you're carrying
There's a place for you here.
What it often sounds like
"I feel out of control."
"I go 0 to 100."
"I can't feel anything anymore."
If any of those sound familiar, you're in good company. These are the language of a nervous system that has been working overtime to keep you safe.
Specialties
Where this work goes deepest.
Complex Trauma & PTSD
For the survival patterns that outlived the danger — hypervigilance, shutdown, flashbacks, the sense that your inner world is never quiet.
Read more →Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating
Understanding food, hunger, and control as the language of a nervous system asking for care — no numbers, no comparisons, no shame.
Read more →Body Image
Reconnecting with a body that has felt like an enemy, a stranger, or a project — and finding a different relationship becomes possible.
Read more →Sexual Abuse Recovery
Trauma-focused, paced, deeply respectful care for survivors. You set the direction; I hold the container.
Read more →Ways to work together
Three doorways in.
1:1 Therapy
Weekly telehealth sessions across Pennsylvania and Arizona. Long-arc, relational, paced to your nervous system.
Learn more →10-Week Experiential Groups
Small, closed groups that use experiential practices to move the work out of the head and into the body — alongside other adults doing the same.
Learn more →Private Intensives
Multi-hour or multi-day one-on-one work when you want to focus deeply on something specific without waiting a week between sessions.
Learn more →Approaches I'm trained in
Modalities in service of you — not the other way around.
Take the next step
If any of this resonates, let's talk.
Consultations with Lauren Mehr are a low-pressure conversation. Reach out to talk about fit and fees.
New clients begin with a free initial telehealth consultation. Brave Embers Wellness serves adults 21 and older.
Returning client? Log in to the client portal