My work is very supportive, strength-based, and solution-focused. Sessions utilize the empowering process of identifying individual and familial organizing patterns in order to help clients create more awareness, balance, choice, flexibility, and joy in their lives. I honor the strategic wisdom underneath client’s coping strategies while supporting them in developing healthier and more sustainable ways of meeting their needs.

My interventions account for the biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and spiritual influences interwoven into each presenting issue. Clients develop emotional regulation tools, increase distress tolerance, and learn to tap into the power and wisdom of the mind/body connection through somatic practices. My work is designed to help clients connect with internal and external resources so they can not only cope more effectively but also discover more aliveness, inspiration and pleasure. Thrive not just survive!

I specialize in:

• Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families in order to overcome destructive organizing patterns and lead more fulfilling lives

• Lead three therapy groups- GirlPower for adolescent girls, MAPS for Living for adults, and Women’s Wellness Walks for adult women

• Special interest in supporting adolescents and their families

• Collaborate with local psychiatrists when psychopharmacological support is needed

• Diagnostic consultation for the assessment and treatment of chemical dependence

• AfterCare Treatment of chemical dependents, co-dependents, and adult children of alcoholics

• Consultation to recovery programs, clinicians, and attorneys for evaluation and treatment recommendations of chemically dependent individuals and families

• Develop integrative curriculums for addiction and trauma recovery

• Psycho-educational trainings on topics such as adolescents and addiction, the link between trauma and addictive behavior, emotional surfing, how to tap into the power of Somatics, and trauma recovery designed to give clinicians new insight into challenging presenting issues as well as provide practical clinical tools they can utilize immediately to better serve their clients

Laura can be reached at (650) 266-9266 or laura@coachinginternational.com.