I blend powerful, progressive therapy approaches that work. With deep empathy and understanding, I help you feel seen, validated, and never alone. My compassionate, empowering guidance supports your healing and teaches you how to help yourself.

You’ve done the surface-level work. Now it’s time for deep healing and lasting transformation—a chance to resolve core wounds, release old pain, and finally move forward free and whole.

With a unique blend of cognitive therapy, parts work, and integrative energy & mind-body-spirit approaches, I help you:

• Identify and heal wounded parts of yourself
• Release stored trauma and emotional energy
• Create a compassionate bond with your inner child
• Transform shame into strength and clarity

Together, we’ll build a safe, supportive space where you can confront the past, reclaim your power, and connect with your authentic, evolved self—perhaps for the first time.

You are stronger than you know. Healing is possible. Your spirit was always meant to be free.

I have a long and varied work history that I draw from when offering guidance to my clients. It’s important to me that I pass on the wisdom I have learned from educating, caring for and counseling people of all ages and abilities. 

My past professional experiences include caring for preschoolers and school age students with varying physical and cognitive challenges, teaching elementary school and aging adults, providing school counseling to middle school and high school students, providing case management for teens with behavioral health issues, and providing aftercare coordination and therapy to clients in residential as well as outpatient treatment programs for codependency and substance abuse, all prior to my work in private practice in Kentucky and now Florida. 

These experiences have led me to view healing as a developmental growth process. Rather than focusing on a problem or considering my clients to be flawed in some ways, I view people as full of potential with the right to exercise their ultimate freedom – that of personal choice, ownership of their autonomy and individual interpretation of their authentic self.”

Her background includes professional experience in elementary teaching, middle and high school guidance counseling, adult education and mental health services coordination, continued care coordination and group and individual trauma therapy in an inpatient primary treatment. 

Past certifications include Graduate Certificate of Organizational Development and Leadership, Elementary Education certifications in IN, KY and TN, Guidance/School Counseling certifications in KY and TN, and the Child Development Credential in Infants & Toddlers.  

In addition to her experience and degrees, Laurie has had a great deal of professional development trainings from each professional experience she’s been involved in. 

Some notable trainings include Advanced Integrative Therapy, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level 2, Level 1 Gottman Couples Therapy, Society for Organizational Learning’s Foundations for Leadership with Peter Senge, PRAISE IEP training, Continuous Improvement at the KY Department of Education, and Go for The Gold Management Training, in addition to many counseling, leadership and education-related continuing education trainings.