Laura Merritt, LCSW
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05/16/2026
Here’s me just before presenting at Thrive Therapist Conference in Portugal! Can’t wait to explore psychedelic medicine with this room full of great therapists to help them become psychedelic-informed! I can talk psychedelics in the therapy room all day and am grateful for this opportunity! Let’s go!
What restores and inspires you? One of the ways I get inspired is through travel and time in nature. When I can pair that with presenting at a conference and connecting with other therapists, I feel especially lucky!
05/07/2026
Hello from Portugal! I’m in this beautiful country to present at the Thriving Therapist Conference! I’ve always wanted to visit Portugal and attending a conference is a great way to travel and get CEUs! Have you visited Portugal? Send me your recs on things to do!
12/26/2025
I hear this all the time: "I've had therapy before but it didn't really help." "I tried meds." "I work out every day", "I tried meditation, journaling, energy work..."
The challenge is that we've been conditioned to expect rapid results. You try one thing, it doesn't work quickly, so that must have been a failure. Move on to the next thing.
But honestly? Trauma didn't happen overnight and it won't get fixed that quickly either.
The next hot trend might promise to be your gateway to cure trauma, but that's an empty promise. Yes, you can get improvement, reduced symptoms. But healing takes time and consistent effort across multiple dimensions.
It builds on itself:
Talk therapy helps you understand yourself and patterns, learn how to be close and intimate, building safety and trust
Somatic work helps your body release what it's holding, adapt
Spiritual practices help you find meaning, connect with a deeper part of yourself, to the sacred
Movement helps regulate your nervous system, build interoception or body awareness
Trauma processing helps you tolerate difficult emotions, sensations and memories, releasing avoidant patterns
None of these alone is THE answer. Together, over time, with patience? That's where transformation happens.
Stop looking for the one thing that will fix you. Start building a practice that addresses all the dimensions of healing: the physical/mental, the energetic/emotional, and the spiritual/consciousness.
It's not sexy. It's not quick. But it works.
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