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Laura is in a Masters Program for Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She also holds a Master of Science in Integrative Biology with a focus on immunology, pan, and epistemology. Her scientific research and education along with her education of psychology equips her to deal with an understanding of the science and research of illness and the emotional issues that may accompany a client's illness or that of a family member.
Laura is also CBT Certified (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and DBT Certified (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). She utilizes both CBT/DBT for work with clients with medical illness and the caregivers or those close to family members who have medical illness and the the various mental health issues that come from being sick such as anxiety, depression, grief/loss, hopelessness and adjustment disorders.
Laura works with individuals whose mental health has been affected by medical illness, whether they are experiencing illness themselves or helping a family member with an illness. Laura clients or their family members suffer with illnesses such as with medical illness ALS, MS, auto-immune disorder, long covid issues, or cancer.
Laura works with the depression that can appear after a heart surgery, or the frustration of dealing with a chronic illness such as lymes disease, fibromyalgia, or lupus. She also works with those given a cancer diagnosis to manage the anxiety that comes along with the uncertainty of waiting for tests results and outcomes.
Laura works with the grief and loss that can come with losing capacity to do the things in daily life one was able to do before the medical diagnosis. Laura helps clients through the stages of grief and to come to a place of acceptance to create a new life based on their present abilities.
Laura also works with family members, siblings and parents of clients with medical illnesses who aren't quite sure how to help their family member with the mental health symptoms that may come along with the illness.
Laura is available for individual coaching or family coaching to help her clients express the feelings that are happening inside of them in light of a recent diagnosis or a long term illness that has to be managed.
Managed by Horizon Wellness Center
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