The Trauma Therapist Finding Our Voice with Erin Valente, LMFT
Mar 13, 2026
Erin Valente, LMFT, a Los Angeles therapist specializing in trauma-informed care, EMDR, somatic work, and ketamine-assisted therapy, helps people reconnect with their inner voice. She talks about calming the nervous system before trauma work. She explains using somatic methods, EMDR, and ketamine-assisted sessions. She also shares why reclaiming voice is hard and how values guide healing.
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Trauma Creates A Protective Wall
- Trauma creates a protective “wall” that prevents clients from accessing healing through talk therapy alone.
- Erin Valente observed EMDR, somatic work, and psychedelic-assisted methods lower that wall by calming the body and nervous system first.
Big T And Little T Look The Same
- Big-T and little-t traumas produce the same nervous-system-driven presentations.
- In private practice Erin now treats both major abuse/ life-threat traumas and smaller life-shifting events with the same framework.
Three Years Of Supervised Trauma Training
- Erin spent three years at a trauma-focused counseling center because of its rigorous supervision and varied caseload.
- She says those three years exposed her to nearly every clinical situation and made supervision a foundation for skill development.