Wholeness in Every Layer Of you
EMDR therapy and trauma-informed counseling in St. Augustine, Florida
Integrative Counseling
EMDR, Hypnotherapy, Individual Therapy, & Holistic Healing
EMDR Therapy
EMDR helps the mind and body release what has remained unresolved so you can return to a grounded, clear internal state. My approach integrates advanced, attuned EMDR work with a deep understanding of the nervous system, allowing healing to unfold with precision and ease. Clients often describe this work as transformative, clarifying, and stabilizing.
Best for: trauma, anxiety, intrusive memories, attachment wounds, and chronic stress.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy offers a focused, intentional pathway into the subconscious where long-standing patterns can shift with clarity and purpose. Sessions blend guided depth work, nervous system calming, and insight-oriented exploration, creating an experience that feels supportive, safe, and uniquely powerful. This work is ideal for clients who want meaningful change without force or pressure.
Best for: anxiety, habits, self-esteem, emotional healing, and strengthening inner resources.
Individual Therapy
Therapy becomes a place to understand yourself on a deeper, more resonant level. My work draws from Jungian depth psychology, somatic awareness, and integrative mind-body practices to help you explore the patterns, symbols, and experiences that shape your life. This is an intentional, reflective process designed for clients seeking insight, growth, and inner alignment.
Best for: identity work, relationship patterns, life transitions, stress, and personal growth.
Holistic Healing
This offering blends therapeutic insight with mind-body-spirit integration for clients seeking a more expansive healing experience. Sessions may include guided meditation, intuitive healing work, nervous system balancing, and health coaching practices that support alignment from within. The focus is on restoring clarity, vitality, and balance across every layer of your life.
Best for: burnout, overwhelm, spiritual alignment, and those seeking a more integrated healing experience.
Trauma Can be Transformed
Many people come to me feeling weighed down, stuck in patterns of overwhelm, burnout, emotional exhaustion, or painful relationship cycles. You may be carrying experiences that feel heavy in your body, difficult to name, or impossible to move through on your own.
Together, we use EMDR, depth-oriented insight, and mind–body therapeutic practices to regulate the nervous system, reprocess what has remained unresolved, and help you reconnect with clarity, steadiness, and inner safety.
Healing does not erase your past. It reshapes your relationship with it and creates space for a life that feels more grounded, balanced, and aligned with who you are becoming.
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• Feeling stuck in survival mode, even when you want to move forward
• Emotions that feel too big, too intense, or impossible to regulate
• Relationship patterns that repeat, no matter how hard you try to change them
• A nervous system that cannot settle or find rest
• Memories that still hurt or resurface unexpectedly
• Shame or self-blame that feels heavy and undeserved
• Difficulty trusting, connecting, or feeling secure with others
• A loss of inner safety, confidence, or self-worth -
Healing looks different for everyone, which is why I draw from a variety of approaches including EMDR, hypnotherapy, and holistic mind–body practices. Together, we shape a process that feels safe and supportive for your system. Over time, your nervous system learns to settle, your body releases what it has been holding, and your mind forms new pathways that support clarity, balance, and peace.
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When the weight of the past no longer feels so heavy, space opens for new possibilities. My clients notice greater ease in their nervous system, steadier emotions, healthier relationships, and a renewed sense of self-worth. Healing allows you to feel more present, connected, and at peace: no longer defined by what happened, but empowered to create what comes next.
“To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
Trauma-Informed Therapist Specializing in EMDR and Integrative Mind–Body Healing
Serena Cecere, MS, RMHCI
My approach combines EMDR, depth-oriented therapy, and mind–body healing to help people move through trauma, anxiety, and long-standing emotional patterns. These methods allow us to work with both the psychological and physiological parts of your experience, creating deeper and more lasting change.
Sessions are steady and structured, and they are guided by what your nervous system can hold in the moment. This helps you stay grounded as we move through difficult material, and it protects your system from becoming overwhelmed.
Together we work through what has been difficult to carry and create a clearer and more grounded connection to yourself. This process helps you understand your internal world with more compassion and allows you to finally feel supported instead of alone with what you have been navigating.
I believe the mind, body, and soul are deeply connected, and when even one is out of alignment, our sense of balance and well-being shifts.
This understanding shapes the heart of my work and the way I walk beside every client I support.
My therapeutic approach blends depth psychology, mind–body healing, and a grounded spiritual perspective. Drawing from Jungian principles and evidence-based practices, I help people understand their inner world with clarity and compassion, so they can move through life with more steadiness and self-trust.
Rooted in the Jungian belief that healing involves integrating the unconscious and conscious self, our work explores symbolic meaning, emotional patterns, and the intuitive wisdom held in the body. This process is not one-size-fits-all. It is a layered, personalized collaboration that meets you exactly where you are and supports your growth at a pace your system can hold.
I believe that true healing honors the whole person, not just symptom relief, but reconnection to purpose, intuition, and vitality. Whether you are working through trauma, navigating anxiety, or rediscovering your inner voice, this work is about reclaiming every part of who you are.
This integrative approach has guided not only my clients’ healing, but my own as well. My personal journey is the reason I am now pursuing a PhD in Mind–Body Medicine, deepening my understanding of the connection between psychological and physiological healing.
Located in historic Saint Augustine, Florida, just minutes from downtown and the coast, my practice sits in a quiet space designed for restoration. This is where healing feels natural, intentional, and deeply personal.
248 Southpark Circle East
St. Augustine, FL 32086