At the heart of this practice is s deep commitment to supporting individuals and families navigating complex emotional, developmental, and relational challenges across diverse lived experiences. Grounded in intersectional and neurodiversity frameworks, trauma and attachment informed assessment and analysis guides personalized intervention through strength and evidence based treatment. 

The practice is a good fit for highly sensitive, creative, and athletic individuals (including youth, emerging adults, and parents) who seek integrative, constructive, relational, and strength-based approaches to mental health and wellbeing. While this practice has developed a reputation for attuning to the unique needs of sensitive, creative, and driven individuals, all are welcome.

My approach honors the complex interplay of cultural identity, developmental stage, neurobiological differences, and social context in shaping each client’s mental health journey. Each client is met with curiosity, clinical insight, and compassionate collaboration to cultivate resilience, clarity, and  empowered authentic self-expression.

What to Expect 

At CYFCare, our goal is to create and deliver a supportive and empowering space for individuals, groups, families, and  community institutions to navigate challenges and build essential life skills that yield lasting wellbeing. We address bottom-up approaches that focus on foundational skills and underlying impairments to improve overall functioning; as well as, top-down approaches that prioritize addressing specific needs and goals within daily activity. Both approaches are valuable and can be combined to achieve meaningful and lasting progress gauged via improvement in emotional, social, and relational intelligence. Our highly individualized treatment plans strive in the development of communication, executive functioning, emotional, relational, and social skills; as well as, the mitigation of toxic stress, the incorporation of early intervention, and the processing of adverse childhood experiences.

Using a holistic, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approach, evidence-based techniques are integrated with the aim to help clients reach their full potential by overcoming cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges while fostering emotional resilience, cognitive growth, and meaningful connections.

Our therapeutic framework is eclectic and draws from multiple theoretical orientations and techniques to understand and address behavior. At its core, our approach is person-centered, strength-based, solution and emotion focused while incorporating trauma, attachment, and cultural information. We integrate the soul  (the eternal essence that shapes character, emotions, and intellect that makes each person unique), mind (the center of cognitive functions like thinking, perceiving, and understanding), and spirit (the vital universal force that animates and connects life), while focusing on both conscious and unconscious emotional healing and growth.

Laura encourages self-exploration through expressive arts and storytelling, while cultivating self-discovery and expression. She also incorporates Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming when aligned with a client’s unique needs and goals. Every treatment plan and session is carefully tailored to meet the unique needs of each client and ensure access to an effective and meaningful path toward healing and transformation. 

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 I am also pursuing certification as an Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP) and a Clinical Specialist in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASDCS).

and Child and Youth Care Practitioner, with a background in Early Childhood Education and Development, and Broadcasting Multimedia. I offer counseling, consulting, coaching, training, and education to children, youth, families, and community institutions.

In addition, my post licensure training includes Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Brainspotting through the Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI).  In graduate school, I trained under a constructivist approach to therapy. Here I wouldd need to add the book titles for each of the apppraches used. was trained in Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Transpersonal Group Therapy, Constructive Family Therapy, X, y, z, at the University of Vitoria. that uses, and prior to graduate school I became a certified Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and Ericksonian Clinical Hypnotherapist., xyz beurin  university, and xyz certified inner heart reiki tummo at  padmachaya.

Close to my heart is treating clients dealing with narcissistic abuse and gaslighting to help them end emotional manipulation and reclaim their lives from toxic relationships; as well as, supporting clients dealing with peer-victimization identify and mitigate antagonistic behaviors in narcissists, bullies, and those presenting characteristics of the dark triad.

Narcissistic Abuse and Gaslighting Treatment Course, Help Clients End Emotional Manipulation and Reclaim Their Lives from Toxic Relationships.

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Brainspotting. David Grand, Ph.D.: The Brain-Body Based Therapy for Treating

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ReiKi Tummo to address heart mind and spirit.

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Our approach encourages children, youth, and families to take advantage of neuroscientific research on the gut-brain axis and thus encourages the use of nutritional and integrative medicine in the mental health field.

Are you seeking clinical support for toxic stress, adverse childhood experiences, social skills and executive functioning development, or early mental health intervention? Then you have come to the right place; it will be our pleasure to be of service to you and your loved ones.