Trauma-informed, somatically grounded therapy for individuals & couples across Washington
doing the deeper work
Curación Counseling offers therapy to individuals and couples who are ready to explore what talk therapy alone can’t always reach. Through trauma-informed, somatically grounded care, we work with the body, mind, and nervous system to create space for deeper healing.
Serving Seattle, Whidbey Island, the Olympic Peninsula and across Washington State.
20 minutes, no obligation
EMDR • Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy • Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Meet your therapist
Vanessa Hooper, LMHC, PMH-C
My commitment to this field was forged in a juvenile detention center, facilitating writing therapy and watching intergenerational trauma move through people who had never been given language for it. It convinced me that traditional talk therapy alone often isn’t enough.
My own journey through grief made the same case. Therapy helped, but it didn’t always excavate the pain deeply enough for lasting change. That’s what sent me toward EMDR and psychedelic-assisted therapy — to reach the stuck places conversation can’t.
I’m a Mexicana, a mother, a writer and a poet. I grew up with my family’s own practices around grief and connection, and they live in how I practice today.
Who this work is for:
People carrying complex trauma
Parents through pregnancy and postpartum
Couples in complicated territory
People working with psychedelics
Areas of expertise
Complex trauma & attachment
Loosen rooted relational wounds and move past survival patterns toward a real sense of safety in your body and your life.
Couples & relationships
ENM, polyamory, cultural intersections, and the aftermath of betrayal — toward authentic connection and clear-eyed decisions.
Perinatal mental health
Whether you are on a journey to get pregnant or struggling to understand the identity change to parent, this transformative time is delicate and life changing. A safe space to be held and witnessed can shift the uncertainty and renew your sense of self.
KAP & psychedelic integration
Clinical, soulful support that bridges the medicine experience and your daily life. I partner with Nomad Therapeutics for your at home ketamine sessions.
EMDR & somatic healing
Body-centered work for what talk therapy can’t reach, moving your nervous system from reactivity into grounded presence.
Tarot & astrology
For clients drawn to symbolic tools — another language for self-understanding alongside clinical work, never instead of it.
What truly sets my practice apart is the seamless integration of clinical rigor and symbolic depth work in a single space.
Clients often come here navigating racial identity, sexual trauma, spirituality, existential questions, and relationships complicated by cultural difference or non-traditional structures.
Over time, the work is about becoming less reactive and more present, in your body and in your relationships. Not just understanding your patterns, but moving beyond survival and toward greater connection, belonging, and wholeness.
What can shift
I move between advanced clinical approaches like EMDR and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and depth frameworks like Jungian psychology, dreamwork, tarot, and astrology, fluently and on purpose.
This work makes room for all of you: your relationships, identity, culture, spirituality, body, and the questions that don’t always have easy answers. Together, we look beyond symptom relief toward deeper understanding, meaningful change, and a more connected way of being.
Featured in The Healing Code
Vanessa is a contributing author to The Healing Code, a collaborative book exploring pathways to healing and wholeness.
