Therapy for women navigating
disrupted identity,
relational transition, and
patterns of self-abandonment.

Virtual
Maryland at time of service
Private pay
Limited caseload
What the Work Understands

What appears separate is often part of the same pattern.

Trauma, intimate relationships, family roles, cultural expectations, and structural conditions can shape how a woman understands herself and what she believes is available to her.

Patterns of self-abandonment often begin as ways of preserving safety, belonging, or connection. Relational transition can expose those patterns and unsettle the identity built around them.

SOVRN Therapy works with the full arrangement rather than treating each part as a separate concern.

What appears separate is rarely separate in a life.

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How the Work Moves

The work moves between understanding, processing, and building capacity.

SOVRN Therapy integrates the Sovereign Passage with trauma-informed EMDR and individual psychotherapy. Treatment is organized around what the client needs most at a given point, rather than a fixed sequence or one-size-fits-all protocol.

Understanding

The experiences, relationships, roles, beliefs, and conditions that continue to organize a woman’s life.

Processing

Traumatic memory, attachment injury, emotional response, and the protective patterns still shaping the present.

Building capacity

The internal, relational, and practical capacity for clearer decisions and a more coherent sense of self.

The work is structured, but not fixed; treatment changes as the client’s clinical task changes.

Treatment follows the clinical task, not a schedule.

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Abigail McNair, licensed therapist and founder of SOVRN Therapy

I built SOVRN Therapy because clinical work should be able to hold the full complexity of a woman’s life.

I am a licensed therapist, EMDR-certified clinician, and the founder of SOVRN Therapy. I earned my master’s degree in Clinical Counseling from Palo Alto University, with a specialty focus in Marriage and Family Therapy, and I provide individual psychotherapy to adults.

Travel, teaching, parenting, and living across different cultural settings have made me less interested in universal answers and more interested in how culture, belonging, power, and material conditions shape what is possible for a person at a given time.

Meet your therapist

The consultation is an opportunity for us both to consider whether the structure and focus of this practice fit the work you are seeking.

Complimentary, fifteen minutes, by phone.

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