About Laura
If you’re looking for unconditional acceptance and emotional safety, you’ve found it.
At the heart of Laura's work is a deep belief in the healing power of relationship. She helps clients identify and transform the negative cycles that show up in their most important relationships - including the ones they have with themselves.
Both with couples and in individual therapy, Laura employs emotionally-focused therapy, or EFT - a therapeutic approach aimed at helping you understand the emotional roots of your behavioural and relational patterns. EFT is an evidence-based, attachment-informed approach that works by going beneath behaviour to the underlying emotional experience, creating the conditions for lasting, meaningful change. Whether working with individuals navigating attachment wounds, neurodivergence, anxiety and depression, or with couples caught in painful cycles of disconnection, Laura uses EFT to foster deeper understanding, emotional safety, and genuine connection.
Laura's practice is also shaped by her passion for ecopsychology and nature-based approaches. She understands the self as not isolated, but embedded in relationship: with others, with the body, and with the living world. She is proudly anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and has experience working with LGBTQ2A+ and racialized clients.
Laura is a Registered Psychotherapist with 4 years of clinical experience, and a Member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, offering individual, couples, and group therapy in Guelph and online.
If you are suffering, struggling, and need a safe place to land, reach out for a free 30-minute initial consultation, to find out if therapy together feels like a fit.
Qualifications and associations:
Registered Psychotherapist and Clinical Member, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
Graduate of the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling College (Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy)
Member, Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy
Bachelor of Arts, Honours
EFT-C Externship Certificate, ICEEFT
EFT-G Certificate, Transforming Emotions
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A growing body of research supports the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy in treating various mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, complex trauma, and personality disorders.
Research suggests that the benefits of psychodynamic therapy can be long-lasting, often improving over time, even after therapy has ended. This is because the therapy focuses on deep-seated emotional patterns and unconscious processes that lead to lasting change.
Recent studies in neurobiology and attachment theory have provided additional support for psychodynamic principles, showing how early relationships and unconscious processes influence brain development and emotional regulation. -
My style of therapy is intentionally client-led, which often looks like me asking a few questions, and you sharing the thoughts, feelings, stories and ideas that come up for you, as they emerge. Depending on your goals, as the therapy progresses I will offer more reflections, or questions to support your process of self-exploration. We will work slowly and incrementally, and I will encourage you to glean your own insights from our conversations.
Therapy doesn’t have to be about exploring any particular aspect of your life or experience. You get to decide what we explore, at whatever pace works for you. -
This depends entirely on the policy you are insured under. Most insurance plans have some coverage for psychotherapy, but some do not, and others have very comprehensive coverage.
Many insurance providers cover services provided by a Registered Psychotherapist, but some do not. If you’re not sure what your plan covers, it’s best to check with your provider before booking a session.
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EFT stands for Emotionally Focused Therapy. It is a structured, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy that is most commonly used in couples therapy, but that is also beneficial for individuals and groups.
EFT focuses on the impact and importance of attachment relationships in individual and family emotional health and wellbeing. It aims to help you understand the emotional roots of your behavioural and relational patterns.
FAQ
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My standard session fee for both in-person (Guelph) and remote therapy is $130 per 50-minute hour.
I also offer a limited number of sliding scale sessions. If you would like to be notified when the next sliding-scale spot becomes available, please reach out.
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I have a 24-hr cancellation policy, which means I request payment if you miss your session and don’t notify me within 24 hours of the scheduled start time.
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For in-person clients, I have limited availability in Guelph. Please contact me directly to inquire.
For remote (online) clients, you can either book a free 30-min consultation online via my Jane calendar, or you can reach out by email to find a time that works for both of us.
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During the assessment phase, the therapist works with the couple to understand what approach to couples therapy might work best for their particular situation and dynamic. If the client pair is ready and well-suited for Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), we will begin the therapy with an individual session for each client, to allow for an unbiased understanding of each person’s attachment history.
Couples therapy sessions are often described as “structured conversations” and often involve more intervention by the therapist than you might see in individual therapy. In EFT, the therapist often coaches, directs, and facilitates certain types of interactions between the couple, with the goal of deepening emotions and helping the couple learn to identify and understand their negative relational cycles. However, regardless of the style of therapy, the therapist will never take sides or alienate/ target/ blame a particular partner. The goal of EFT all forms of (effective) therapy is to foster mutual acceptance, care, and deep understanding of self and other.
