Heal the patterns that keep you stuck
Psychotherapy for Deep Healing and Meaningful Change
EMDR, trauma therapy, anxiety support, and spiritual integration for adults seeking to heal old patterns and create lasting change.
You may understand yourself well—and still feel stuck.
Perhaps you've spent years reflecting on your experiences, reading self-help books, talking things through, or even attending therapy before. You know where some of your patterns come from. And yet, anxiety, painful memories, relationship struggles, or familiar emotional reactions continue to show up.
Insight is important. But sometimes insight alone isn't enough to create change.
HeartWoven Wellness offers compassionate, depth-oriented psychotherapy for adults who are ready to better understand themselves, heal what continues to affect them, and move forward with greater freedom.
In-person therapy in South Lake Tahoe and secure telehealth for clients located in California.
You Don't Have to Keep Carrying What No Longer Belongs to You
Our lives are shaped by countless experiences.
Some teach us how to feel safe and connected. Others leave us carrying beliefs, fears, and patterns that once helped us survive—but no longer serve us.
You may find yourself:
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Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or constantly on edge
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Repeating the same painful patterns in relationships
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Struggling to trust yourself or others
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Carrying the emotional impact of experiences from your past
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Feeling disconnected from yourself despite appearing successful on the outside
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Going through a major life transition and questioning who you are or what comes next
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Feeling exhausted from trying to hold everything together
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Longing for deeper healing than simply learning how to cope
Therapy can be a place to slow down, understand what has shaped you, and begin creating something different.
Not by becoming someone else.
But by reconnecting with the parts of yourself that may have been buried beneath survival, responsibility, fear, or old expectations.
Therapy for the Whole Person
EMDR therapy
For processing distressing experiences and reducing the emotional impact they continue to have.
Trauma-informed psychotherapy
For understanding how past experiences may be shaping your present relationships, emotions, beliefs, and sense of safety.
Anxiety and overwhelm
For developing a deeper understanding of what is driving your anxiety and creating greater emotional flexibility.
Life transitions
For navigating changes in relationships, identity, career, family, parenthood, spirituality, and other significant areas of life.
Spiritual and existential concerns
For exploring questions of meaning, faith, identity, purpose, and spiritual change when these are important to your healing.
You are more than a diagnosis.
You are more than the most difficult thing that has happened to you.
And healing is rarely as simple as eliminating a symptom.
My approach to psychotherapy recognizes that our emotional lives are woven together with our relationships, histories, identities, beliefs, bodies, and experiences of meaning.
Together, we can explore the patterns affecting your life while also working toward meaningful, practical change.
Depending on your needs and goals, our work may include:
Healing Can Be More Than Learning How to Cope
Sometimes therapy is about getting through a difficult season.
Sometimes it's about learning practical tools.
And sometimes, the work goes deeper.
It becomes an opportunity to understand why certain experiences continue to affect you, why familiar patterns keep repeating, and what might become possible if you no longer had to organize your life around old fears.
My work is especially suited to people who are thoughtful, self-aware, and ready for deeper exploration.
You don't need to have everything figured out before beginning.
You simply need a willingness to become curious about what is happening beneath the surface.
EMDR Therapy for Trauma and Emotional Healing
You don't have to remember every detail of the past for the past to continue affecting you.
Distressing experiences can shape how we see ourselves, how safe we feel in the world, how we respond to stress, and how we relate to the people we love.
EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach that can help people process distressing experiences and reduce the emotional intensity associated with them.
EMDR may be helpful for people struggling with:
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Traumatic or distressing experiences
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Anxiety and fear
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Painful memories
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Negative beliefs about themselves
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Relationship wounds
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Experiences of loss
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Experiences that continue to feel emotionally "stuck"
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Patterns connected to earlier experiences
EMDR therapy is available in person and, when clinically appropriate, through secure telehealth.
A Place for Your Spiritual Life
For some people, healing cannot be separated entirely from questions of meaning.
You may be questioning beliefs you once held.
You may be recovering from harmful religious experiences.
You may be exploring spirituality for the first time.
Or you may simply want a therapist who understands that questions of purpose, faith, identity, nature, and meaning can be important parts of being human.
At HeartWoven Wellness, psychotherapy remains grounded in professional mental health care while making space for spiritual and existential conversations when they are meaningful to you.
Your beliefs are not something you need to leave at the door.
Meet Marni Perschnick, LCSW
CA: LCSW 116543 NV: LCSW 8427-C ID: LCSW-36384
I believe meaningful therapy requires both compassion and honesty.
My goal is not simply to help you feel better temporarily. It is to create a space where we can become curious about what is happening beneath the surface and work toward changes that matter in your actual life.
My approach combines professional clinical experience with a deep respect for the complexity of being human.
I am trained in EMDR and work from a trauma-informed, integrative perspective. I also have a background in spiritual care and interfaith ministry, which allows me to thoughtfully support clients whose healing includes questions of spirituality, faith, meaning, or identity.
Most importantly, therapy is not about fitting yourself into someone else's idea of who you should become.
It's about discovering what becomes possible when you are no longer living entirely from old patterns, fears, and expectations.
Finding the right therapist matters.
A consultation is an opportunity for us to briefly connect, discuss what you're looking for, and determine whether working together may be a good fit.
No Surprises Act
As of January 1st, 2022, a legislative package called the No Surprises Act was passed which affects the medical and mental health worlds. It was designed to prevent people from receiving medical treatments mistakenly believing the treatments were covered by their insurance only to find out later that they were not when they receive a large, surprising bill in the mail. As a result of the No Surprises Act, you are entitled to receive a document called a Good Faith Estimate from me at the time that you become my client, and to request an additional Good Faith Estimate at any other time that we are working together.
Since there are no hidden fees in therapy, and the therapy relationship is based on transparency, your Good Faith Estimate will not contain any information that is different from what you will already know about therapy costs at the time that we decide to work together. (I.e., It will be very clear at the outset whether you will be using insurance out of network benefits or not, how much therapy costs, and how payment will work.) And your Good Faith Estimate is not intended to be a recommendation or a prediction of how long you will be in therapy. You are always free to terminate your therapy or to switch to a different practitioner at any time.
Additionally, at any point in our work together, based on what is happening in your life and what you are needing, you may increase to two sessions per week, or decrease to biweekly sessions. Also, if you experience financial difficulties at any time in our work together, we would talk about adjusting your fee within the range of what I can accommodate. Therefore, the estimate provided on your Good Faith Estimate may not end up being the real amount that you ultimately invest in therapy.
Should you decide to become my client, we would discuss all of this and ensure you feel very comfortable with all of the above information and with anything else you may like or need to know about therapy, payment, and what to expect