Therapy for Nurses in Florida
You are the one who holds it together. Twelve hours on your feet, a patient who did not make it, a charting backlog, and then home to people who need you. The exhaustion is not only physical—it takes a toll on your mental health, your relationships, and your overall well-being, too. At Restorative Integrations by Lōmii Studio, our EMDR therapists work with nurses on what the job leaves behind and on the patterns that were there before it.
Who we work with
Most of the nurses who come to us are competent, self-aware, and privately running on empty. They are not looking for coping tips they could already teach a class on. They tend to recognize themselves here:
The charge nurse or unit lead who absorbs everyone else's stress and has nowhere to put her own
The ICU, ED, or oncology nurse carrying losses that were never given room to settle
The nurse whose first year in practice looked nothing like nursing school promised
The nurse who went into caregiving because she had already been doing it at home since childhood
The nurse questioning whether to stay in the field, where the decision is tangled up with worth and other people's expectations
The nurse who has tried therapy before and could not keep it going around a rotating schedule
If you understand your patterns clearly and still watch them repeat, that gap is exactly what this work is for.
Meet our therapists for nurses
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Kelsie Baggs
I am a certified EMDR therapist and an EMDRIA Consultant-in-Training, which means I do this work and also train other clinicians in it. If you have already been through therapy that stayed at the level of coping skills, I can take the work further than that.
I see clients virtually across Florida and Georgia, which tends to matter when your schedule rotates. My approach is warm, unhurried, and paced by what you can hold, not by a protocol timeline.
Credentials: Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida #MH19326, Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia #LPC014021, EMDRIA-Certified EMDR Therapist, EMDRIA Consultant-in-Training, Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy training in progress through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute
Specialty areas: Trauma and complex trauma, depression, anxiety, abuse and neglect, relationship patterns, life transitions, Somatic Experiencing, embodiment work, trauma-informed yoga and meditative practices
Availability: Virtual in Fort Lauderdale
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Arianna Mucci
I came out of high-acuity work with teens and families in crisis, including suicidal ideation, abuse, and neglect, so the clinical world you work in is not abstract to me. I know what it takes to stay steady in a room where someone's life is on the line, and then get up and do it again.
Clients describe me as calm and steady, someone who can sit with intensity without rushing you through it.
Credentials: Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern #IMH25868, EMDR-trained, working toward EMDRIA certification
Specialty areas: complex and developmental trauma, emotional overwhelm, long-standing relational patterns, attachment-informed care, parts work, body-based approaches
Availability: Virtual and in-person in Fort Lauderdale
What to expect from the therapy process
Step 1. Complimentary intro call
Begin by completing our inquiry form and scheduling a brief, complimentary introductory call. This is a chance to share what brings you in, ask questions about our approach, and make sure the clinician and format feel like the right fit before moving forward.
Step 2. Intake & treatment planning
Your first few sessions focus on understanding your history, current concerns, and goals. Your therapist gathers a thorough clinical picture and collaborates with you on a treatment plan, including whether weekly therapy or an EMDR intensive will best support your process.
Step 3. Ongoing sessions & integration
From there, you move into the core work, whether that’s through weekly 90-minute sessions or through a customized EMDR intensive. Whichever path you choose, the focus is on sustainable, integrated change to help you build insight and shift your felt experience.
Our approach
We also work with the pattern rather than a single incident. For most nurses, it is not one call or one code. It is the accumulation, and often an earlier history of caretaking, criticism, or emotional neglect that the job then sits on top of.
Reprocessing a representative memory tends to generalize across the related ones, so this is not an endless tour through every hard shift you have worked.
Alongside the psychotherapy, occupational therapy through Emmy Slaibe, OTR/L, addresses how all of this is showing up in daily functioning. Care is private-pay, which is what allows for 90-minute sessions and pacing set by the work instead of by a benefits plan.
Comprehensive EMDR is the method our work is organized around, used as the full eight-phase framework rather than reprocessing alone.
A meaningful portion of the work comes before any reprocessing begins: understanding your history, seeing how it shows up in your life now, and building steady footing first.
If we suggest spending more time there, that is the phase of the work, not a hurdle you have to clear.
How therapy can help nurses
Process vicarious trauma
Deaths that got charted and never processed. Being asked to deliver care you knew was not enough because of staffing. Reporting something and watching nothing change. We work with moral injury and institutional betrayal as real clinical territory, not as a personal failure to be more resilient.
Shift deep-seated patterns
You may already know where a pattern came from and still feel it in your body when a family member escalates or a charge nurse questions your judgment. Comprehensive EMDR works with the memory, the feeling, the sensation, and the belief together, which is often what talking about it has not been able to reach.
Holistic support
Emmy Slaibe, OTR/L, our on-staff occupational therapist, offers occupational therapy across our practice, standalone or alongside your therapy. The occupational therapy lens looks at how trauma, anxiety, and depression are affecting sleep, recovery between shifts, sensory load, and daily routines. Psychotherapy and occupational therapy working together is what makes our whole-person care more than a phrase.
FAQs about therapy for nurses
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We start with what brought you in, then follow the pattern underneath it. Common topics include:
Specific shifts, codes, or patient outcomes that have stayed with you
Guilt, second-guessing, and an inner critic that sounds like a preceptor who never left
What happens at home after work, and what does not
Boundaries with family, colleagues, and the people who rely on you
Earlier history, including childhood, that shaped the caretaking role
Whether you want to stay in nursing, and what that question is really about
You set the pace, and nothing has to be told in detail before you are ready.
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Nurses are a high-exposure population, and the presentations we see most often include:
Post-traumatic stress from repeated occupational exposure
Anxiety, panic, and hypervigilance that do not switch off after shift
Depression and emotional numbness, sometimes described as going through the motions
Sleep disruption made worse by rotating or night shifts
Moral injury and institutional betrayal
Grief that has accumulated without room to be grieved
Substance use as a way to come down after a shift
Many people carry more than one of these at once, and they often share a common root.
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There is no single best therapy, and the right fit depends on your history and goals. Our work is organized around comprehensive EMDR, which is recognized as an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress by the World Health Organization, the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, and the UK's NICE. We draw on other approaches as clinically appropriate.
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Yes. We see physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, paramedics and EMTs, respiratory therapists, techs, social workers, and fellow mental health clinicians. The pressures overlap: high exposure, high responsibility, and a professional culture that rewards absorbing it without comment.
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Yes. Your records are held in a HIPAA-secure system and are not shared with your employer, your manager, or your licensing board without your written authorization. There are narrow legal exceptions, including imminent risk of serious harm, certain mandated reports, and court orders. Your therapist will review these with you before you begin.
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Yes, therapy is often covered by insurance. Restorative Integrations is a private-pay practice and does not bill insurance directly. Depending on your plan and your clinician, a superbill may be available for you to submit for possible out-of-network reimbursement.