Transformational therapy for people tired of
talking endlessly and ready for healing that sticks.
ONLINE THERAPY THROUGHOUT MICHIGAN
I help highly sensitive people heal the roots of anxiety, people-pleasing, and chronic exhaustion so they can confidently live life on their own terms with greater embodiment and connection to their intuition and themselves.
Imagine…
Setting a boundary with your whole body in agreement, instead of bracing for fallout.
Trusting your inner knowings — without spiraling into worry and talking yourself out of them.
Seeing your anxiety as an ally with wisdom worth listening to, instead of an enemy.
Feeling at home in yourself, and not just performing okayness, and holding it all together by sheer force of will.
It's not a fantasy. Your body already knows the way. It just needs the right container, safety, and attunement from someone who genuinely cares.
Maybe you've been in therapy before, possibly for years. You're not new to this. You've done the work, read the books, learned the coping skills. You can probably explain your patterns better than most people can.
And yet. Something still isn't shifting.
You're exhausted from holding everything together for everyone else. Your anxiety hasn't gotten the memo that you've figured out where it comes from. You know why you can't set that boundary, you just can't seem to actually do it.
That gap between knowing and changing? That's not a willpower problem. That's not a you problem. That's a nervous system thing that talking alone can’t reach.
If you're a highly sensitive person who's self-aware enough to know something's off, tired enough to want it to actually change, and ready to go deeper than words alone can take you, you're in exactly the right place.
You’ve done the therapy. You have the insight— but you still feel stuck.
Sound familiar?
You're the one everyone knows they can count on. You care deeply and you always show up. But you're exhausted in a bone-deep way that's hard to explain, and you're starting to wonder if something has to give before you completely break.
You know why you people-please, why you can't say no, why you keep ending up last on your own list. Knowing hasn't changed it.
You didn't grow up in a war zone, but you grew up having to be careful about expressing what you felt, what you needed, how much space you took up. And that's left a mark.
Your body is always doing something — bracing, scanning, holding. You can't remember the last time you felt fully at ease.
You've wondered if maybe you're just wired wrong. Too sensitive. Too much. Not enough. Or some combination of all three.
Somewhere along the way you lost the thread of who you actually are underneath all the managing and performing and holding it together.
I get it, and I’ve got you
I'm Emily Perraut, LLP, trauma therapist, certified Brainspotting consultant, and someone who genuinely gives a damn about the people I work with. And I'm going to be real with you.
I've spent the last decade specializing in trauma, Brainspotting, and nervous system work, and the nearly 15 years of clinical experience behind that has taught me a great deal about what actually creates lasting change and what doesn't.
What I know for certain is that there's a difference between helping people manage and cope, and helping them genuinely heal. That difference is what drives my work. This isn't just clinical knowledge for me. My own healing work and lived experience are woven into everything I do, and they're a big part of why I work the way I do.
Here's another thing I know: insight alone isn't enough. You can understand your patterns completely and still feel utterly unable to change them. That's not a character flaw. That's just how trauma works when it lives in the body. And talking about it, while valuable, will only get you so far.
We will work with your brain, body, and nervous system to help you access and process what's been stuck. Not by reliving it or analyzing it to death, but by working with your own system's innate capacity to heal. I blend Brainspotting, parts work, and nervous system regulation, adapting the approach to what your unique system needs.
I don't pathologize your responses to hard circumstances and unjust systems, and I know you're not broken. I think you're a highly sensitive person who adapted brilliantly to situations that were hard, and those adaptations are ready to be updated.
I work best with people who are done with surface-level coping or analyzing, ready to go somewhere new, somewhere deep, and with folks who are ready and willing to do the real thing.