Meet Noelle
you are ready for changeMy Experience
Before becoming a therapist I was an Emergency Medical Technician for four years, and I integrate neuroscience into my counseling practice. My experience in the medical field taught me that the connection between mind and body is fundamental in creating change in people’s lives. I utilize bottom-up and somatic approaches, meaning we’ll understand together why your body suddenly feels on-edge, overstimulated, or completely numb and shutdown. You may have heard of “The Body Keeps the Score” and be curious about where your trauma lives in your body. Let’s find out together.
✶ Utilizes Bottom-up, Somatic approaches
✶ Integrates Neuroscience
✶ Focused on rekindling your Mind-Body Connection
Therapist & FounderNoelle Prax, MA Licensed Professional Counselor
My name is Noelle Prax (she/her) and I am a trauma-informed therapist and fierce advocate for my clients. A phrase that resonates with me is “People make sense." Many people come to me with behaviors they hope to change such as people pleasing, difficulties enforcing boundaries, and having a hard time trusting others. These behaviors are not your fault or personal failures, they are your body’s firewall. Together we will get curious about how the "problems" you bring me may have kept you safe previously and how they are no longer serving you. This process allows you to begin to trust yourself again, and understand that your body has been working to protect you all along.
Authenticity and humor are big parts of who I am and what I bring to counseling. If you can hold things for years I can hold it with you for 50 minutes. I am not afraid to feel things deeply with you and laugh at your joke in the same session.
therapy doesn't work for meMy Approach
I’ve had my own journey with counseling and understand that not all therapists are created equal. Many of my current clients have said they previously questioned if therapy could work for them. If you are a self-aware individual many popular counseling theories that focus on creating awareness may have left you feeling stuck or hopeless. I utilize bottom-up and somatic techniques that help you actually feel your emotions rather than intellectualizing or avoiding them. This can be a very powerful and transformative process for people who are highly self-aware or weren’t given the space to express their emotions previously.
✶ Specializes in highly self aware individuals
✶ Helps people who have felt stuck in therapy previously
✶ Teaches you how to feel emotions rather than intellectualize them
“Meet Oliver”
outside of the therapy roomWho am I as a person?
When I’m not witnessing others in their journeys, I love to garden, hunt for treasures from the past at estate sales, nurture my loved ones with delicious food, and take care of my senior dog, Oliver (who is on the max dose of Prozac). Photosynthesizing in the sun is a required daily activity for me, and I am happy to discuss incorporating nature walks into our work together because of this. My Spotify describes me as an “angsty but uplifting badminton player” which accurately captures how I simultaneously feel 16 and 65 years old internally.