Live from a Self-led presence

Relational and trauma-informed therapy for lasting healing and connection.

Randall S. Wood, Lafayette, Indiana

Living with anxiety or depression can make everyday life feel harder than it should. Thoughts become louder, emotions feel harder to manage, and even rest can feel out of reach. Some people carry anxiety like a constant background noise. Others live with depression that slowly drains energy, motivation, and connection from everyday life. Therapy offers an opportunity to understand those experiences with compassion rather than judgement. Randall S. Wood, LMHC offers relational, trauma-informed therapy designed to help clients feel more grounded, connected, and emotionally safe again.

Understanding the Patterns

Anxiety and depression come with deeper emotional roots. Many times, people develop protective patterns early on in life, as a way to cope with stress, emotional pain, disconnection, or unstable relationships. Those patterns could later show up as perfectionism, people pleasing, emotional withdrawal, anger, procrastination, addictions, or a constant need for control..

What once helped someone feel emotionally safe can eventually wear someone down.

Therapy allows clients to see these patterns with compassion, not self-criticism. Rather than the question, “What is wrong with me?”, the process begins to ask, “What happened that taught me to survive this way?

Nervous System Support for Anxiety and Depression

Many people are in a constant state of stress and don’t realise how much it affects their emotional and physical health.

Some continue to be trapped in fight-or-flight mode, where anxiety, overthinking and hypervigilance dominate daily life. Others go into emotional shutdown, often experienced as depression, numbness, disconnection, or lack of motivation.

Nervous system regulation therapy in West Lafayette helps clients identify these patterns and develop the capacity to return to emotional equilibrium more reliably.

Polyvagal Theory-based therapy aims to help clients achieve a greater sense of internal safety, emotional regulation and connection in relationships and in daily life.

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Understanding My Approach

As a compassionate guide, I will help you understand and connect with the ways of being (overthinking, caretaking, control, perfectionism, people-pleasing, addictions, anger, self-harm, procrastination, bingeing/purging) that have formed in you to keep you emotionally safe. With self-compassion, you will come to trust yourself to be with parts that carry negative beliefs and uncomfortable feelings. This internal attachment will liberate you to experience the 8 Cs of Internal Family Systems (IFS), calm, clarity, compassion, confidence, connection, courage, curiosity, and creativity.

What Brings People to Therapy

Therapy can help people who are struggling with:

Anxiety and chronic overthinking
Depression and emotional numbness
Relationship conflict
Burnout and nervous system exhaustion
Trauma
Self-harm
Addiction patterns

LMHC offering in-person therapy in Lafayette, Indiana & virtually across the state

Integrative Therapy for Trauma & Couples

Drawing on IFS, EMDR, attachment theory, and polyvagal-informed care to help you self-regulate and feel safe

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Feel In Control Again

Learn to self-regulate, so emotional dysregulation stops running the show.

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Feel Lighter

Move from stuck to lighter, with greater capacity to sit with your internal world.

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Feel understood

Feel seen and valued in a therapy relationship built on empathy and patience.

A depth-oriented, integrative approach to therapy

Discover the Patterns Beneath the Behavior

Most people who reach out are stuck in some version of fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or shutdown. The presenting issue is usually something like: overthinking, anger, addictions, relationship strain, and the pull of family-of-origin wounds. The behaviors are real. But the work happens underneath them, with the parts of you that learned a long time ago to protect something young, wounded, or injured. As a Licensed Therapist in Lafayette, I help clients understand and work with these deeper patterns rather than simply managing symptoms.

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How We Work Together

Trauma Therapy

For adults dealing with PTSD, complex trauma, childhood emotional neglect, and the patterns that stem from them. Integrating IFS, EMDR, and polyvagal-informed care

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Couples Therapy

For couples who are engaged or married and are ready to work on the pattern underneath the fight. Attachment-based couples therapy in Lafayette for the anxious, avoidant, or disorganized partners.

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Hello, I’m Randall S. Wood

Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), EMDR, IFS

I work with adults and couples who want depth, not just coping skills. Most of my clients are high-functioning. They are successful by every external measure, and carrying something previous surface-level support has not healed.

Many come to me at midlife, navigating identity shifts, career changes, or relationship transitions. What they share is wanting a therapist who integrates multiple modalities to match the work to what they need.

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How to Get Started:

Step 1

Reach Out for a Free Consultation

A 20-minute phone or video call. You can ask questions, get a sense of how I work, and see if it feels like a fit.

Step 2

Begin With an Initial Session

We begin with a first session focused on your story, what you are carrying, and what feels most important to you right now.

Step 3

Begin Ongoing Work

Sessions are in-person in Lafayette or virtually across Indiana. Whether you are seeking counseling in Lafayette Indiana, support for anxiety, relationship challenges, or trauma recovery, we match the work to what you need.

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Support Starts with a Conversation

You do not need to have everything figured out before starting therapy. Therapy offers more than a space to talk through problems. It is about understanding them with enough compassion that real change becomes possible. My approach is energetic, compassionate, and emotionally present. The goal is to strengthen your “Self” so that less healthy protector parts relax, and you can attend to exiled parts in a caring way. If you’re looking for a therapist for anxiety and depression in Indianapolis who focuses on relational healing and nervous system regulation, I’m here to help.

Randall S. Wood, LMHC