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Lara Kennerly, PsyD
Specialties
Therapy for high-achieving professionals, people working in high-stress and high-risk professions, and adults impacted by wildfires.
Areas of Specialty
Some experiences carry pressures that are difficult to explain to people who have not lived them. I provide therapy that makes room for what is happening beneath the surface and the ways it continues to affect your work, relationships, and sense of self.
High-Achieving Professionals
Ready to stop putting an image of “successful” above everything else, face what has been hidden, and start healing.
I help high-achieving professionals navigate the rough waters beneath their success: chronic exhaustion, disconnection, and a sense of unfulfillment. Through insight-oriented and attachment-based therapy, we look at the deeper emotional currents shaped by past experiences and relationships, address the patterns driving burnout, and help you reconnect with yourself beyond performance and achievement.
High-Stress and High-Risk Professionals
You show up for everyone else. I’m here to show up for you.
I work with people in high-stress and high-risk professions, including first responders, healthcare workers, corrections staff, and air traffic controllers, who feel isolated, overwhelmed, or emotionally shut down by the weight of their work. Through psychodynamic, attachment-based, and trauma-informed therapy, we work together to process difficult experiences, address burnout, and make room for the parts of you that have been pushed aside while carrying so much.
Adults Impacted by Wildfires
Healing after the fire for adults who have lived through wildfire trauma.
I work with adults who have lived through wildfires, including losing a home, facing evacuation, or living with ongoing fear and uncertainty. Using psychodynamic, insight-oriented, and trauma-informed therapy, I help you explore the emotional and psychological effects of these experiences. Together, we work through grief and stress, rebuild a sense of safety and meaning, and restore greater inner stability.