I offer a safe container, skillful guidance, and my compassionate presence so you can show up build capacity for discomfort, empowerment, and self-trust. Together, we will work towards renegotiating and transforming trauma, the fearful, frozen, parts of your life that have stayed stuck for too long, so that you can feel enlivened and capable of giving and receiving love.

Issues that are commonly addressed in therapy sessions with me include anxiety, shame, sympathetic activation and dorsal-vagal shutdown (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn patterns of dysregulation) attachment wounds, codependency, grief, and loss.

I am a somatic trauma therapist, which means that I bring a unique invitation to notice and engage with the information your body is giving you, as well as the meaning you are making of the stories in your life. We pay attention to shifts in your body so you can recognize them in your life. We don’t place more value on unpleasant sensations (pain) than on what is pleasant and working well. All that you carry is welcome. I draw from my experience and training in somatic trauma healing, including Somatic Experiencing®, a psychobiological approach to renegotiating trauma. My goal is to support you in transforming trauma and developing a deep sense of self-compassion, emotional capacity, and aliveness.


I work with individual adults and couples in-person on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at my office in the Mandala Integrative Medicine Clinic in South Boulder, CO, and with individual adults over Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Trainings, Education, and Experience

  • Somatic Experiencing®, Advanced level

  • Linda Thai’s Advanced Somatic Trauma Treatment Method Training

  • Secure Attachment Couples training, From Me to We, with Stan Tatkin, PhD

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for individuals and families

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy trainings

  • Trauma Systems Therapy for complex trauma in family systems

  • Bowen Family Systems Theory and Practice

  • Masters in Social Work, Colorado State University

  • Certified Yoga Teacher Training, 200 hrs.

  • Certified Massage Therapist Training, 1,000 hrs, Boulder College of Massage Therapy (no longer practicing MT)

  • Bachelor of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, Wheaton College

Fees

Individual Therapy 50 min. sessions $155.

Couples Therapy 80 min. sessions $195.

Laurien uses Ivy pay, a secure HIPAA-compliant payment method for licensed therapists, and is also an in-network provider for individual adults with Aetna, Optum, and United/UMR insurance.

Please note that Laurien does not provide crisis services. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 988 to reach the National Suicide and Crisis line, or call 911 or go to your nearest ER.