Katie Hurley LPC

07/21/2025

Thanks to everybody that voted. I couldn’t be prouder. 

05/03/2024

Immediate openings available! Spread the word.

11/05/2023

10/10/2023

07/12/2022

Currently accepting new clients! Contact directly if interested.💚

04/24/2021

At Serenity & Hope, Katie Hurley’s primary treatment modality is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.

Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stressful events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). While many times traumatic experiences can be managed and resolved spontaneously, they may not be processed without help.

Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.”

If you are struggling with memories of a distressing event, or continue to tell yourself negative statements, such as “I am not good enough, I am bad, I have to be perfect”, then EMDR maybe the treatment for you!

https://youtu.be/Pkfln-ZtWeY

Learn about how EMDR therapy works, what it is like, and how widely it is recognized.

02/06/2021

Dr. Daniela Owen's strong desire to help others understand themselves better motivated her to pursue a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University.

02/03/2021

Sand tray minatures are finally all organized and put together!

01/26/2021

Are you struggling with self harm urges or behaviors? Here is a simple app to have at your fingertips. Calm harm provides assistance to help prevent and manage your urges to self harm.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calm-harm-manages-self-harm/id961611581

11/14/2020

BINGO!!! Leaning so much at the sand tray summit!

08/25/2020

First day of my child at work with me. Lord help me!

06/10/2020