I hesitated about writing this review, but I believe my experience could be useful to prospective clients. I was Laura's client for two years, during which time we focused on addressing my childhood trauma. Laura can be very empathetic and attuned. However, in my experience, she was not able to work therapeutically with anger/pushback and responded with her own reactivity. This made it difficult to engage in rupture/repair work and to experience anger in a safe way within the therapeutic relationship. This may not come up for every client, in which case this aspect might not be relevant. However, if you suspect that part of your healing may involve needing to push back, express firm disagreement, and assert autonomy, know that this may be challenging.
I don't think this means you cannot do good work with Laura; however, I do think it's worth having a conversation at the start about how Laura handles pushback, anger, and her capacity to do rupture/repair, so that you can discern whether the healing work you need to do is something that Laura has the skill set to handle. read more