Laurie is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 22 years of experience working with children, adolescents, teens and adults. She holds a Master’s in Professional Counseling and a second Master’s degree in Educational Leadership. Laurie helps children understand their big emotions and how to navigate through emotional reactions in helpful positive ways. We work together at finding the best coping tools to make the challenges of growing up feel more manageable. Laurie has a passion for working with teens and helping to guide them through their challenging years. She works to empower you as a parent and support your child, adolescent and teen to live their best life. Laurie is also passionate about relationship counseling helping you rediscover who you are as an individual, learn how to set healthy boundaries and care for your needs.
Laurie is a friendly and approachable therapist that brings compassion, empathy and authenticity to everyone she works with. Laurie is dedicated to restoring confidence in her clients to lead them to an empowering and fulfilling life. Laurie is a practiced and experienced counselor familiar with a wide variety of counseling strategies and believes that change occurs through a caring and trusting relationship cultivated by empathy, respect and understanding.
Laurie uses an integrative approach and specializes in the areas of depression, anxiety, relationship issues, ADHD, sexuality/identity questions, grief/loss, post-traumatic stress, postpartum depression, relational struggles and adjustment difficulties.
In Laurie’s free time she enjoys going on adventures with her two young daughters, backyard fire pits her husband likes to build, fun with her 2 maltese dogs, traveling, photography, sewing, reading and singing broadway show tunes!