Hi, I’m Laura.

I am glad you are here.

I am an integrative somatic psychotherapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am particularly skilled in working with the intersections between trauma, neurodivergence, anxiety, and chronic pain (including pelvic pain, sexual health, and digestive issues). I offer warm, kind, and practical support.

I help people make space, open up, and do what matters. I offer a soft place to land, where we can start to untangle stuck points, set down the burdens you’ve had to take on, and restore nervous system resiliency.

I find sacredness and joy in the practice of healing. Outside of my time spent as a therapist, I enjoy basking in nature, devouring speculative fiction, and delighting in tea.

  • Somatic Psychotherapy

    I believe we each possess innate wisdom that is longing to lead the way, if only we could make a clearing through our mental chatter, old patterning, and unresolved wounds of the past. I weave together Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (Level 2 trained), and EMDR to support you in accessing relative safety, ease, and pleasure.

  • Neuroplastic Chronic Pain

    I specialize supporting people living with chronic pain, including pain that is not always talked about, such as pelvic pain, painful sex, bladder pain, sexual health concerns, and digestive issues. I meld together effective pain resolution strategies with a focus on embodiment.

  • Mind-Body-Spirit

    Your neurotype, culture, ancestors, and deep ways of knowing are welcome. I welcome the transpersonal, existential, numinous, otherwordly, and mystical. I offer integrative care, including a focus on working with non-ordinary states of consciousness and ancestral healing.

  • Neurodivergent Affirming

    Flexible and fine-tuned for you. Space to move, stim, delve into special interests, and feel held. I have specialized training in adapting psychotherapy for ADHDers, Autistics, and AuDHDers in particular. I work from a non-pathologizing lens and support people around executive functioning, sensory needs, interoception, and other related areas.

Selected Training

  • Pain Reprocessing Therapy with Alan Gordon through the Pain Psychology Center

    Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy with Howard Schubiner

    Freedom from Chronic Pain Practitioner Training with Howard Schubiner

    Association for Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms Course

  • EMDR Training for Recent Events and Early Interventions with Trauma Therapist Institute

    EMDR Training for Grief and Loss with Trauma Therapist Institute

    EMDR and Somatic Therapy with Trauma Therapist Institute

    Special Considerations for EMDR with Autistic and ADHD Clients, Christine MacInnis

    Flash Technique (Beginner and Advanced) with Phil Manfield

    Four Blinks Training with Philip Zimmerman

    EMDR Basic Training (Part 1 & 2) with Phil Manfield

  • MAPS MDMA Therapy Training

    Rhythm of Regulation with Deb Dana

    Healing the Legacy of Historical and Transgenerational Trauma with Linda Thai

    Unnameable Losses: The Unmetabolized Ambiguous Grief of Adult Children of Refugees with Linda Thai

    Working with Complex Trauma: Innovative Approaches for Restoring Mind-Body Integration with Bessel van der Kolk and Linda Thai

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS), Level 2, People of the Global Majority Affinity Group with Tamala Floyd and Fatimah Finney

    Internal Family Systems (IFS), Level 1 with Mary Kruger and Dan Reed

    Somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Susan McConnell and Life Architect

  • Where Do We Go When Healing Becomes Ill? Navigating the Empire of Trauma with Báyò Akómoláfé

    Certified Teacher in Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong with Daisy Lee

    Qigong Mentorship with Mimi Kuo-Deemer

    Advanced Clinical Sexology with Northwest Institute on Intimacy

    Pelvic Floor Yoga Training with Leslie Howard

    Niroga Institute Integral Yoga Fellowship

  • Neurodivergent Somatics with Nyck Walsh

    Befriending the Nervous System: Trauma, Sensory Processing, and Developmental Wounds with Linda Thai

    Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) with OCD Training School

    Safe and Sound Protocol

  • Somatic Experiencing Institute, Beginning and Intermediate Year with Shideh Lennon. Anticipated completion of Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Certification in 2025

    Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level 1/SP Trauma Themes with Anne Westcott

    The Voice Keeps the Score: Sound as a Portal to Embodiment wth Linda Thai

    Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies with Linda Thai