Understand yourself differently. Respond differently.
Mental health care is more useful when it helps you understand not only what you're experiencing, but what may be contributing to it and what you can do with that information.
NRC Praxis provides evidence-based, context-informed psychotherapy and structured skills groups for adults. Our approach considers research evidence alongside your experiences, culture, relationships, environment, learning history, and the ways your nervous system responds to the world around you.
Care built around understanding, not just symptoms.
There isn't one therapeutic approach that works the same way for every person.
We use clinical information to develop working hypotheses about what may be contributing to a problem, identify interventions that fit those processes, and adjust as we learn more.
That may involve changing patterns of thinking or behavior, learning regulation skills, processing traumatic memories, changing how you respond to internal experiences, or simply understanding why a response that once made sense is no longer helping.
Ways to Work With Us
Individual Therapy
Individual psychotherapy for adults seeking support with trauma, mood and anxiety concerns, dissociation, neurodivergence, chronic illness, emotion regulation, and related concerns.
Different tools.
A shared purpose.
Our clinicians draw from evidence-based approaches based on the needs of the person and the problem we're trying to address.
Rather than assuming that a diagnosis automatically determines a treatment, we consider what processes may be maintaining the problem and which interventions are most likely to address them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT helps you identify and change patterns in thoughts and behaviors that may be contributing to distress or keeping you stuck.
EMDR: EMDR uses structured memory processing to help reduce distress connected to traumatic or other difficult experiences.
Prolonged Exposure (PE): PE helps people with PTSD gradually approach trauma-related memories, emotions, and situations they have been avoiding so that fear can decrease over time.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): CPT helps people with PTSD identify and reconsider beliefs about themselves, others, and the world that developed or changed after trauma.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): ACT helps you relate differently
to difficult thoughts and emotions while taking actions that are consistent with what matters to you.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT):
DBT teaches practical skills for managing emotions and distress, navigating relationships, and responding more effectively to difficult situations.
Understanding can be part
of treatment.
We use neuroscience-informed psychoeducation—NeuroEd—when it can help clients better understand their experiences.
Learning about processes such as threat responses, attention, memory, learning, emotion regulation, and nervous-system states can provide another way to make sense of patterns that otherwise feel confusing or unpredictable.
NeuroEd isn't used to reduce people to their brains or suggest that every experience has a simple biological explanation. It's one source of information that can be considered alongside psychological, relational, cultural, developmental, and environmental factors.
Context changes the picture.
A response cannot always be understood separately from the environment in which it developed.
Culture, identity, relationships, discrimination, community, family experiences, development, physical health, access to resources, and other aspects of a person's environment can influence what feels threatening, what feels safe, how distress is expressed, and which interventions make sense.
Clinical decisions should account for that context rather than treating it as background information.
Finding the right clinician matters.
Carole Tshela Showell, LCSW, Doctoral Student (DHSc Program)
Carole is a trauma therapist and clinical researcher specializing in adults with complex trauma, PTSD, neurodivergence, dissociation, and emotion regulation. Her direct, collaborative approach integrates evidence-based trauma treatment, neuroscience-informed care, and cultural context to help clients better understand patterns and make meaningful changes.
Kaitlyn Ann Harrison, M.S., LAPC, Psy.D Candidate
Kaitlyn is a therapist and clinical psychology doctoral candidate with training in CBT, DBT, trauma-focused care, and psychological assessment. She works with adults and adolescents experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism using a compassionate, strengths-based approach tailored to each client's individual needs.