Email: Info@thrivebeyondtraumacounseling.com
Call: (248) 392- 3733
Counselling
Counselling
DEITRA ELAINE DORSEY, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor – Michigan
EMDR Trained • Gottman Level 1 & 2 Trained • APSATS-Informed Betrayal Trauma Care • NCE • CSAT & CCPS Candidate
Working towards her CSAT and CCPS specializations.
*I support individuals and couples healing from reproductive trauma, betrayal, addiction, and emotional overwhelm. My approach is grounded, relational, and trauma-informed — Honoring both your lived experience and your nervous system’s story.*
Email: deitradorsey@outlook.com
Deitra is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings more than 15 years of trauma-centered clinical experience to her work with individuals, couples, and families. Her therapeutic presence is calm, grounding, and deeply empathetic, helping clients feel safe enough to explore the parts of their story they’ve long carried alone.
She integrates EMDR, somatic awareness, attachment repair, and relational attunement with a warm, faith-sensitive lens (for clients who desire it). Her work focuses on helping clients rebuild safety, identity, and internal regulation while healing the wounds created by trauma, relational rupture, grief, or chronic emotional overwhelm.
*She offers a space where your nervous system can settle, your story can be heard, and your healing can begin.*
Clinical Approach & Philosophy
Deitra’s approach is holistic, trauma-informed, and person-centered, rooted in the belief that healing requires emotional safety + nervous-system grounding + compassionate truth.
She supports:
– EMDR & somatic regulation
– Attachment-focused therapy
– Gottman-based relational repair
– Values- and faith-integrated meaning-making
– Cognitive and emotional pattern work
– Body-based stabilization practices
Her goal is to help clients slow down, reconnect with themselves, understand what their body has been holding, and create sustainable emotional change.
*Healing happens when safety, nervous-system support, and attunement come together.*
Advanced Training & Specializations
EMDR Trauma Therapy
Deitra integrates EMDR to help clients process trauma, regulate emotional activation, and restore internal balance.
*Trauma can be released — EMDR helps your mind and body work together again.*
Gottman Method Couples Therapy(levels 1 & 2)
She supports couples with communication repair, emotional regulation, conflict patterns, and rebuilding connection after rupture.
*Connection is repairable — With structure, empathy, and safety.*
Partner Betrayal Trauma (APSATS-Informed)
Trained in betrayal trauma frameworks, she supports partners navigating infidelity, deception, and addictive behaviors using validation, stabilization, trauma-awareness, and relational grounding.
CSAT & CCPS Candidate (C)
Actively completing advanced training in sexual addiction treatment and partner trauma work, she integrates:
– The 30-Task Model (Carnes)
– Early-stage addiction stabilization
– Partner-centered healing
– Trauma and shame-informed recovery support
*She supports both partners with clarity, structure, and non-shaming care.*
Clinical Areas of Focus
Deitra works with individuals, couples, and families navigating:
- Betrayal trauma (male & female partners)
- Infidelity & relational rupture
- Porn/sex addiction & compulsive sexual behavior
- Behavioral addictions
- Women’s emotional health
- Prenatal & postnatal mental health
- Reproductive grief & perinatal loss
- Medical trauma & chronic illness
- Anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional dysregulation
- Trauma, PTSD & C-PTSD
- Identity, self-worth, and faith transitions
- Attachment wounds & communication struggles
- Couples repair and intimacy rebuilding
*Her clinical passion lies in helping clients heal deeply — In their bodies, stories, and relationships.*
Background & Clinical Experience
Deitra’s career spans more than 15 years across trauma counseling, women’s emotional health, medical grief, crisis care, addiction recovery, and family support systems. Her experience brings a depth of understanding to clients dealing with both acute crises and long-standing emotional patterns.
Women's Emotional & Reproductive Mental Health
Deitra has extensive experience supporting women through:
– Prenatal & postnatal emotional challenges
– Reproductive grief & loss
– Postpartum identity shifts
– Medical trauma & chronic illness
– Caregiver fatigue & family stress
– Faith and identity transitions
Trauma Counseling & Somatic Stabilization
She integrates trauma-informed care, EMDR, grounding, and somatic awareness for clients facing:
– Childhood trauma
– Attachment trauma
– Religious or spiritual trauma
– Medical & crisis-related trauma
– Emotional fatigue and chronic overwhelm
Addiction, Family Systems & Recovery Support
Her work in MAT programs, community advocacy, and coaching allows her to support individuals and families impacted by addiction, emotional instability, and chronic stress.
Community & Leadership Roles
Her resume includes:
- Hope Director, Avail NYC — trauma-informed reproductive counseling & grief support
- Psychiatric Counselor & Coach — Trauma, anxiety, depression, identity, transitions
- Director of Family Support, Angelman Syndrome Foundation — Medical trauma care
- Director, NAMI Metro Suburban — adult mental-health recovery support
*Her background blends trauma healing, women’s emotional health, somatic wisdom, and community-centered compassion.*
Education, Credentials & Memberships
– Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) — Michigan
– M.A. in Counseling — Concordia University
– B.A. in Psychology — DePaul University
– NCC — National Certified Counselor
– EMDR Trained
– Gottman Method Levels 1 & 2
– CSAT Candidate (C)
– CCPS Candidate (C)
– Trauma-Informed Care Training: CANS, CERAP
– Clinical Pastoral Education — Advocate Health