Healing the trauma underneath the competence
YOU LOOK STEADY. INSIDE, IT’S A LOT OF WORK.
Specialized, private-pay trauma care for high-functioning adults, capable on the outside, carrying more than anyone sees.
About Trauma Healing Support
Who We Are
Trauma Healing Support is a specialized trauma therapy practice serving clients across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Florida, and South Carolina.
We work with people whose trauma responses are complex, persistent, and haven't resolved with prior treatment. Many of our clients look high-functioning from the outside while carrying real dysregulation, disconnection, or distress inside—and many arrive after years of effort, in therapy and on their own, still feeling stuck.
This is the work we're built for. Not generalized therapy, but skilled, individualized trauma treatment—guided by a structured developmental model and shaped around who you are, how your nervous system works, and what you're genuinely ready for.
Our Model
A Developmental Path from Reactivity to Self-Leadership
Most therapy hands you coping skills and hopes they hold. Our work is different. Everything we do is organized around a single, deliberate progression—a map your nervous system can actually follow, from the moment you're triggered to the person you're becoming.
This model was developed by clinical director KimMarie Kearns-Vinal over years of practice, and is grounded in Internal Family Systems, EMDR, internal resourcing skills, and current neuroscience. It runs through every program we offer—and it's why our clients don't just feel better for a few weeks, they change at the level of who they are.
Two proprietary maps carry the work:
The Emotional Regulation Path™ — the map of the moment.
A six-stage route from a trigger to an intentional response:
Trigger → 1. Awareness → 2. Pause → 3. Wise Mind → 4. Skill Selection → 5. Interpersonal Application → 6. Integration → Intentional Response.
You learn to locate yourself on the Path in a real moment—and intervene earlier, every time.The Internal Resilience System™ — the map of the inner world.
A five-step progression into the system beneath your reactions:
1. Know the Parts · 2. Build the Resources (Safe Place · Nurturing · Protective · Wise Advisor) · 3. Strengthen Self-Leadership · 4. Practice in Relationships · 5. Live from Choice
What makes it different: every session begins with your lived experience and brings the concept in afterward—so theory lands as recognition, not information. And every session ends with one question—Who am I becoming?—because lasting change is an identity shift, not just a set of new behaviors.
Why Private Pay
Why Private Pay
Our practice is private-pay so your care is guided by clinical need, not insurance limits — which means your privacy stays yours (no diagnosis required for an insurer), no session caps, and pacing set by your readiness. On request, we provide a superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement, and we accept HSA/FSA, Visa, and Mastercard.
A note on access: For survivors of violence, and for children and adolescents seeking care through a parent or guardian, cost will not be a barrier. Limited scholarships are available and considered confidentially, based on clinical need. We encourage families to reach out.
Services
Three ways to work with us, each matched to a different level of need. A brief consultation determines the right fit.
Individual Therapy — Highly individualized psychotherapy for adults and adolescents who need advanced trauma care—tailored to your history, presentation, and nervous system capacity, not your diagnosis alone.
53+-minute session: $250
Extended Sessions & Intensives — Focused, contained work in a carefully structured format, for clients whose needs exceed what a standard session can hold. By consultation only.
Three-hour minimum: $700 · Deposit required
Programs (Cohorts) — Our trauma-informed, framework-based programs for regulation, resilience, and Self-leadership,
Meet the Team
KimMarie Kearns-Vinal, LICSW, M.Ed. — Clinical Director
KimMarie Kearns-Vinal, LICSW, M.Ed. — Clinical Director
KimMarie Kearns-Vinal, LICSW, M.Ed. — Clinical Director
KimMarie is a trauma-focused psychotherapist and the clinical director of Trauma Healing Support. She is EMDRIA-certified and trained through Level 2 in Internal Family Systems (IFS) — an uncommon pairing that anchors the depth and precision she brings to complex cases.
With over 13 years in practice, KimMarie specializes in complex and developmental trauma, attachment injury, and nervous system dysregulation. She works most often with people who look high-functioning from the outside while carrying real internal distress—clients who have done years of work, in therapy and on their own, and still feel stuck. Her approach is assessment-driven and carefully paced: she builds the foundation of safety and regulation first, then moves into trauma processing only when the nervous system is genuinely ready. The result is treatment that goes beyond symptom relief toward durable, identity-level change.
KimMarie is the developer of The Emotional Regulation Path™ and the Internal Resilience System™—integrative frameworks that weave together IFS, EMDR, internal resourcing skills, and current neuroscience into a single developmental model her clients can actually follow, from the moment they're triggered to the person they're becoming. The same frameworks anchor a three-book therapeutic series she authored for adults in demanding professional roles.
KimMarie's clinical roots are in crisis services and severe and persistent mental illness—work that built the steady judgment and comfort with complexity she brings to trauma treatment today.
KimMarie is licensed to provide psychotherapy in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Florida, and South Carolina. EMDRIA-certified · IFS Level 2 trained · LICSW, M.Ed. · NPI #1447533377
Jennifer Carvalho, LMHC
KimMarie Kearns-Vinal, LICSW, M.Ed. — Clinical Director
KimMarie Kearns-Vinal, LICSW, M.Ed. — Clinical Director
Jennifer is a licensed mental health counselor and skilled EMDR therapist with specialized expertise in trauma, ambivalence, and complex decision-making. A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), she integrates EMDR and Motivational Interviewing to help clients build clarity, readiness, and meaningful forward movement — at a pace that is safe and sustainable. Licensed in MA