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ABOUT LAUREN MARSHALL, MS, LMFT-S
A safe space for when "I'm fine" stops working.
I’m a trauma therapist for women, based in Allen, TX. I offer in-person sessions if you're close by and virtual sessions state wide. My practice centers on nervous system regulation, relational repair, and the slow return to the self you had to put away to survive.
I’ve been a therapist for over a decade now, and my work has taken me so many places.
I’ve sat with children who hadn’t found words for what happened yet.
I’ve been across from teenage girls who didn’t know if they were allowed to be angry.
I’ve listened as mothers lost things no one could give back.
I’ve stayed in family sessions where no one could even look each other in the eye.
I’ve walked with couples who were rebuilding something real and couples realizing they couldn’t.
Every one of those thousands of hours spent in the deep taught me this:
The real work isn’t about fixing pain. It’s about staying human inside of it.
I specialize in working with women who have survived long haul trauma.
The kind of trauma that’s layered, hidden, and often silenced by roles, relationships, and systems that claimed to be safe but weren’t.
My work is relational, story centered, attachment based, and grounded in real nervous system safety.
I integrate:
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Somatic practices
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Parts work
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Narrative therapy
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EMDR
More important than any trauma model,
I use real, authentic human presence that does not flinch when the truth gets told.
You won't have to explain every detail, if you don't want too. We'll let the nervous system lead, even if the timeline gets blurry.
We will move at the pace of safety. Always.
We are not just hoping and coping around here.
We’re creating new templates. For trust. For relationships. And for staying human inside your own life. Healing means learning how to be in the world again, without disappearing. It means learning how to be with yourself, without turning against yourself.
It’s slow. It’s real. And it’s hard work.
Some days it will be unreasonably impressive what you'll do in here.
And other days, it's going to look like:
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coming in just to tell me, "I almost didn't come in"
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breathing air and calling that enough
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more swear words in 53-minutes than you've used in your entire adult life
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repeating, “this is dumb,” while doing the bravest thing you’ve ever done
But even when it feels like nothing, it’s still something.
You won't always see it, but I will.
Education and License
2013
Master of Science (MS) in Marriage and Family Therapy
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
2011
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
2011
Minor in Addictive Disorders and Recovery Studies
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor (LMFT-S)
Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists
Survival was solo, but trauma recovery is a team sport.