Lisa Larson

Background

About Lisa Larson

Lisa Larson has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for the past seventeen years. After seven years in private practice doing Solution Focused or "talk therapy", Lisa was acutely traumatized and found that no amount of talk therapy worked. It was only after two sessions of EMDR that she was back to being herself. Inspired, Lisa began to train in the most powerful trauma modalities available. After being trained by the founder of EMDR she trained with the founder of Brainspotting, Dr. David Grand. She immediately recognized the powerful neurophysiological healing vortex Brainspotting offers the traumatized as she saw her severely traumatized clients heal quickly and permanently. She learned that her years as a talk therapist were missing the most crucial piece required to heal those with trauma, the body. Those with complex trauma and PTSD are enslaved by their own neurophysiology. A dream was born in Lisa. She was determined to do something about the unnecessary suffering of the traumatized. She opened Pacific Counseling and Trauma Center in 2012 and became a National Brainspotting Trainer to teach other therapists how to bring lasting relief to their traumatized clients. She is passionate about teaching Brainspotting and letting the world know that trauma and PTSD are not something you have to live with. Brainspotting makes freedom, peace and joy possible for even the most severely traumatized. Lisa treats individuals, couples, and families and specializes in Anxiety, Low Self Esteem, PTSD, Performance Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Positive Discipline Parenting Education, Couples Communication, Addiction, Sex and Love Addiction, Childhood and Adult Trauma, and Family Systems.