Specializations

Enhancing Couple's Communication and Family Relationships including: 

• creating a fulfilling marriage
• learning to deepen understanding and empathy for each other
• re-establishing connection 
• gaining skills in communicating successfully
• negotiating the crisis of adolescence
• finding the approach to parenting that works for you and your child
• creating family cohesiveness
• working through trauma or life transitions

Note:  As a Certified Imago Therapist Laura is specialized in helping couples effectively restore intimacy and connection in their relationship.  Couples are guided to more effectively listen to their partner and gain a deeper understanding of the source of their conflicts.  

Laura's primary focus is on maximizing the love and support in relationships.   Because she has twenty-five years of clinical experience as a therapist she brings a unique blend of expertise to the therapeutic relationship.  Below is a list of expertise she has developed over the course of her career.

Working through Life's Transitions including loss experiences due to: 

• death of a loved one
• miscarriage
• divorce or the end of a relationship
• loss of health or mobility
• the end of a job
• military deployment
• moving to a new location/school
• a traumatic event

Overcoming Past Experiences of Trauma including:

• gaining insight into adaptations
• processing traumatic experiences
• developing coping skills
• developing social skills
• developing self regulation and self soothing
• transforming self-destructive patterns
• establishing self-worth
• soothing anxiety
• minimizing stress
• practicing self-care
• creating a healthy and happy life-style