Over the past 20 years, Laura has worked within the healthcare field including non-profit, social services, senior healthcare, and volunteer Métis youth work, education, harm reduction, and mental health & wellness initiatives. Laura moved to the Sunshine Coast from Smithers, where she provided counselling services helping youth, young adults, couples, and families. Her own life experiences bring others to a place of empathy and understanding as she strives to hold a compassionate, non-judgmental counselling space. Her expertise ranges from addressing issues around anxiety, addiction, loneliness, depression, grief, and relationships, to name but a few. As an indigenous counsellor herself, she values a culturally sensitive trauma-informed, integrative approach to psychotherapy. Growing up in the traditional territory of the Witsuwit’en Nation, she has been blessed to have northern roots and Métis family surrounding her. As a counsellor, it is my goal to come alongside individuals who are experiencing a variety of interpersonal challenges, and to collaboratively develop strategies to meet their unique goals. My therapeutic framework is based in cognitive behavioural therapy, which is a structured, goal-focused form of therapy which helps people learn to identify, question, and change maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours that contribute to their difficulties. ________________________________ Counselling approaches include: Gottman Couples Counselling level 2, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Satir Experiential Family Therapy, Non-directive Play Therapy