Creative therapy for neurodivergent adults in CA.
COMING FALL 2026
Hi, I’m Laury!
I SUPPORT DIFFERENTLY WIRED HUMANS TO CREATIVELY RECLAIM THEIR LIVES.
I AM A CA BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTIST AND A REGISTERED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST (AMFT 158568) WITH A CREATIVE, PLAYFUL APPROACH TO THERAPY IN DARK TIMES.
I LOVE TO SUPPORT FELLOW ARTISTS, CREATIVES, NEURODIVERGENT (ADHD /AUDHD /AUTISTIC) AND HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE (HSP) HEAL AND RECONNECT TO THEIR CREATIVE POWER.
If jazz was therapy.
If you have tried traditional talk-therapy, and found that it hasn’t “worked”, it may be time to get creative.
My approach to therapy goes beyond words, to get to the heart of things. Though words are welcome as they come, they are just de-centered, with the permission to go beyond them.
After all, our very first human expression is a cry. Then we grow up, and have experiences in our lives that leave us utterly speechless. Grief. Trauma. A late neurodivergent diagnosis might be the catalyst for you (it was certainly for me).
After a lifetime of masking yourself, it can seem utterly impossible to love “yourself”, when that person is someone who hasn’t felt loved, or related to. You may be looking for a warm space to land.
My approach is just that, warm and deeply understanding, because I know what it’s like to be late-diagnosed neurodivergent. I know the impact of being misunderstood over a lifetime.
Sometimes, we grow up and realize we didn’t get to experience the childhood we needed. Together, with the full range of creative possibilities, I invite the freedom of your childhood, now.
Beyond pathology, beyond words.
These days, darkness is all around us and being reflected back to us through these small dark handheld mirrors. It’s an awfully isolating time to be growing up in this world. We are inundated with information, but left to our own devices.
I too walk this path.
After discovering my neurodivergence in grad school, I was left feeling lost. All of the knowledge I had as a growing therapist in treating disorders couldn’t help me help myself. I saw several therapists, but no matter how much I talked about my experience, I felt misunderstood. I dreamed of a neurodiversity affirming therapy that let me wander in the field of myself, roll around in the mud and splash in the rain puddles of my dreams.
I discovered play therapy. I witnessed the deeply healing transformative power of play. I experienced the waves of change that arose from that sense of permission and trust in our therapeutic relationship. I watched the change ripple out. I experienced the changes through me.
In a year, one child went from being non-verbal in class to befriending a group of girls who loved studio ghibli films just as much as she did. I sat with an ADHD boy who drew and scribbled and painted in silence for weeks. By the end of our time together, we were conversing and trading paintings.
In between sessions, I scribbled with paint pens. I wondered, what would it be like to do something “badly” without needing for it to be “good”. What if I could make something without the pursuit of its perfection in my eyes or anyone else’s. With play, I found alongside my clients, it’s incredible potential to be freeing.
I found the art of play to meet words, where language falls short to encompass experience. A pained stroke across the page is felt; pencil in hand scribbling with regulating rhythms. And without being told or directed, our bodies know what to do. It’s what happens when we build trust with ourselves in relationship with someone who trusts in us, that deep healing can occur.
Where creative messes are allowed to be made. Where we can make mistakes, and still be held with compassion. Where we can relate to our failures as open moments for growth. Where we can begin to live our dreams in color, to become curious and creative again.
So, whether its been months or years since you last picked up a paint brush, a marker (anything) and just made something for the sake of expressing yourself, I can be the support you may be needing to safely reconnect with this freedom inside of you, so you can experience remembering what a child instinctually knows — how to be free.
Toward radical reclamation of our creative wisdom.
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Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is ‘to fit together’ and we all do this every day
— CORITA KENT
Together, we can discover what it’s like to be you, authentically you, and experience the wonderful freedom that comes with unmasking you.
Healing with Laury invites the overdue permission to be a child again. The full, silly, beyond-judgment space to finally feel what it’s like to be witnessed, seen, and accepted as your authentic self.
