In session, I offer safety, guidance, presence, compassion, and empowerment to regulate emotional dysregulation, manage anxiety and other forms of sympathetic activation, transform relational and attachment wounds, and integrate grief and loss into your life in meaningful ways.

I draw from my training and practice in Somatic Experiencing®, which offers a guided way of experiencing your body (soma), the container of all of your sensations, feelings, and behaviors, with curiosity and attunement so that you can heal from the overwhelm and injury trauma has caused. With support, you will develop a deeper capacity to be with whatever arises within you, including uncomfortable emotions and negative thoughts. As you learn how to trust your body and recognize sensations and feelings, it will become easier to allow your body to complete activation and de-activation cycles of stress, restore balance, rest, heal, play, and work with more efficiency and enlivenment. This practice inevitably extends to your sense of self, relationships with others, and your community.


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

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

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for individuals and families

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

  • 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 50 min. sessions $175.

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.