Come Back to Yourself
Trauma-informed therapy and guided meditation for healing, self-understanding, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
You don't need to become a different person in order to heal.
Sometimes anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, shutting down, self-criticism, or feeling constantly on guard are not signs that something is wrong with you. They may be ways your mind and body learned to protect you.
My work is centered on understanding those responses with curiosity rather than fighting against them—and creating enough safety, awareness, and compassion for something new to become possible.
There Are Different Ways to Begin
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A space to understand what you've been carrying and what your system has been trying to protect.
I provide trauma-informed individual therapy for adults using approaches including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness, somatic work, and nervous-system-informed care.
Rather than simply trying to eliminate symptoms, we'll explore what those responses may be communicating and help you develop new ways of relating to yourself, your experiences, and the world around you.
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Support for the moments when you need somewhere gentle to land.
My growing meditation library offers trauma-sensitive practices for grounding, emotional regulation, self-compassion, parts work, pain and discomfort, rest, and reconnecting with your body.
These practices are designed to meet you where you are. There is no perfect way to meditate, no requirement to clear your mind, and no expectation that you force yourself into calm.
You can simply begin with what is here.
Your Responses Make Sense
That we often call "symptoms" can also be understood as adaptations.
Maybe a part of you learned to stay hyperaware because noticing everything once kept you safe.
Maybe shutting down helped you survive experiences that felt overwhelming.
Maybe perfectionism learned that getting everything right could prevent criticism.
Maybe people-pleasing discovered that keeping everyone else happy made relationships feel safer.
These strategies can be incredibly intelligent responses to difficult circumstances. And sometimes the very strategies that helped us survive eventually make it harder to rest, connect, trust ourselves, or live the way we want to live.
Healing doesn't have to mean fighting those parts of yourself.
It can begin by understanding them.
Hi, I’m Rachel
I'm Rachel Cooper, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the therapist behind Inner Unity Therapy.
My approach to healing is compassionate, collaborative, trauma-informed, and deeply interested in the connection between mind and body. I draw from EMDR, parts work, mindfulness, somatic approaches, and nervous-system-informed practices to help people better understand their internal world.
At the center of my work is a simple belief:
Healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about becoming more fully and safely yourself.
That philosophy shapes both the therapy I provide and the guided practices I create.
Find What You Need Today
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Learn about individual therapy, my approach, fees and insurance, and how to get started.
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Browse guided meditations for grounding, parts work, self-compassion, emotional support, pain, rest, and more.