I create healing spaces of authentic connection to support creative souls in living their lives more fully, and more freely.
I support fellow neurodivergent people in expressing and processing interpersonal experiences and relational trauma, healing over-worked nervous systems in burnout, and turning towards creativity in their lives.
When words fall short of conveying the depth of living with your unique neuro-complexity, my relational approach offers creative and compassionate pathways to liberation and healing. My practice invites radical permission and spaciousness so you can be witnessed, held, and accepted in the full complexity of who you are. As both a human being and a therapist, I strive to honor differences and center the lived experience of every person I have the honor to work with.
Attending to your he(art)
Neurodivergent people attend differently. The world calls, and so often, it’s not a choice to just look away. For many, healing is about coming back online to be a feeling, sensitive being towards ourselves, and reclaiming our most precious and most mined resource — our uniquely wired attention.
Being yourself can be truly unsafe when you aren’t being supported and met in the world. The world we exist in is not built for neurodivergent people and sensitive souls. The compounding effects of being misunderstood over a lifetime are threatening to the lives and livelihood of neurodivergent people.
We are so often left navigating neurodivergent experiences of profound pain and suffering, seeking outlets to move through and beyond stuck dark places. Without the environment of relationships and places that cue our safety, we are often bound outside ourselves.
Only in being fully met, human to human, can we be supported to take the permission to make profound meaning, rediscover creative joy, cultivate inner kindness, and live from a place that honors our neuro-complex authenticity.
Together, we can work towards living a life authentically worth living, for you.
Many of my clients seek to unmask, feel a deeper sense of relational authenticity, increase internal awareness, shift towards a sense of self-compassion, and tap into their creativity.
For many, therapy with me may look like:
Embodying your life, finding your voice, and saying no to a life that requires dishonesty to live.
Reclaiming your attention, and bringing that attention back to its origin place.
Reorienting to fear, and relating to how you feel with a sense of curiosity, from self.
Being supported and mirrored and held as you grow and navigate life with neurodivergence (by a matched neurotype therapist!)
Building safety and accommodation in the spaces of yourself and your environment.
Cultivating your creativity and embracing the power of your unique attention in the world.
Crediting yourself for the work and weight of what you have survived and created and experienced in this life of yours.
Relating to yourself with compassion, warmth and love, when what is true is hard to hold alone.
Honoring what is most true to your experience, and embracing life through your values.
Therapy with Laury invites the overdue permission to be you, and be witnessed and held for all of your complexity. To reclaim the full, silly, beyond-judgment space of childhood, and feel what it’s like to be deeply witnessed, seen, and accepted as your authentic self.
My therapeutic offerings
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For adults of all ages seeking neuro-informed and neuro-affirming therapy, I offer individual sessions.
1:1
$195 / 50 min session
Conducted over ZOOM
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For clients who feel restricted by the clinical hour and have a need for more time together, I offer an extended session rate.
1:1
$295 / 90 min session
Conducted over ZOOM
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For teens ages 13-19 seeking neuro-informed and neuro-affirming therapy, I offer individual sessions.
1:1
$195 / 50 min session
Conducted over ZOOM
I offer a limited number of reduced-fee spots in my practice for people in financial need. I do not bill insurance directly, but am able to provide you with the necessary forms for reimbursement. You have the right to receive a "Good Faith Estimate" for how much our sessions together will cost over time. For more information, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises
Undivided attention
I usually meet with clients weekly for individual therapy, depending on need. Sessions follow a steady, predictable structure, which helps heal attachment wounds, relational trauma, and build trust and regulation.
You’re welcome to use words or not. Come as you are and express yourself however feels right. You don’t have to make art or call yourself an artist, but in our time together, you may if you want. If you make something in our time together, there is no expectation to produce something finished or pretty.
Instead, we’ll focus on cultivating presence and compassion, discovering meaning, attuning to process and taking permission to become freely and authentically you, all within the frame of our therapeutic relationship.
Being reflected and met and trusted in your experience by a matched neuro-type therapist can be life-saving. If bychance we’re not a good fit, I can surely support you in connecting with neurodivergent and affirming therapists and resources for your journey ahead.
Lived—and—listened—to experience
I am trained and always expanding my training in relational, play and expressive arts-based, mindfulness-based, depth, and trauma-focused orientations.
As a late—diagnosed AuDHD therapist, my work is deeply informed by lived—and—listened—to experience.
Sessions orient toward relational, expressive/creative, and trauma-focused frameworks.
Focus
Advocacy, ADHD, AuDHD, Autism (ASD), anxiety, attachment, betrayal trauma, burnout, complex trauma (C-PTSD), chronic pain, depression, developmental disability, highly sensitive persons (HSP), intellectual disability, late-diagnosis, LGBTQIA needs, no-contact, masking, meltdowns, neurodivergence, persistent drive for autonomy (PDA), rejection sensitivity (RSD), relational trauma, self-trust, sensory needs, sensory processing disorder (SPD)
Specialty
Santa Clara University: M.A. Counseling Psychology (MFT Emphasis)
University of California, Santa Cruz: B.A. Psychology (Developmental Focus)
California Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT)
ExP THERAPY ® Neurodiversity Affirming Supervision (Ongoing): Lori Crowley, MA, LMFT, LPCC
Expressive Arts and Sensory Processing as Neurodiversity Affirming Practices Training (Ongoing): Trauma-Informed Practices & Expressive Arts Therapy Institute
Neurodiversity Training: Adapting Therapy for Neurodivergent Children & Young People: The Neurodiversity Practice
Child Centered Play Therapy Training and Curriculum Development: Play Strong Institute: Dr. Georgie Wisen-Vincent, PhD, LMFT, RPT-S
Art Therapy Supervision and Training: Jana Emerson, MA, LMFT, ATR; Polly Miskiewicz MA, HCPC, BAAT reg. Creative Therapist (Ongoing)
Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training: Dr. Teri Quatman (SCU)
CAMFT Member