Laverna Soucie, LPC

Laverna Soucie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She combines a background in healthcare with counseling to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. Laverna listens carefully and aims to make therapy practical and understandable for each person.

She brings a straightforward, person-centered style to sessions. She pays attention to how relationships, life changes, and past hurts affect daily functioning. Laverna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside other approaches to address thoughts, behaviors, and emotions in ways people can try between sessions.

Her medical experience informs how she approaches grief, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and coping with illness. That history leads her to focus on clear, realistic steps that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day coping. She also helps people navigate parenting stress, relationship conflict, intimacy issues, and career-related strain.

Laverna works with trauma-related concerns and has experience applying EMDR principles when appropriate, while also drawing on attachment and emotionally-focused ideas to repair connection and reduce isolation. Her methods aim to restore calm and improve communication patterns.

Sessions tend to be practical and collaborative. She encourages goal-setting and small experiments clients can try between meetings. Laverna welcomes people who want a therapist who listens, explains options plainly, and helps create manageable plans for change.

Approach and online therapy options

Two of the approaches Laverna commonly uses are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try small behavior changes and thought experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotional patterns in relationships and helps people understand and change the ways they connect and respond to one another.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Laverna will talk through your goals, symptoms, and preferences and recommend strategies that fit your situation. She adjusts methods over time so the work stays relevant to what you want to change.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions that need visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can support quick updates, homework check-ins, or flexibility during a busy day. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and let people keep consistent momentum even when life is hectic.