I WORK WITH COUPLES AND INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR SUPPORT THROUGH
trauma, addiction, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, and life transitions.
WELCOME! WE ALL EXPERIENCE CHALLENGES IN LIFE AND HOPE TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES.
IF YOU…
- have a difficult time trusting yourself in making decisions
- struggle with addiction, or with distracting yourself to avoid uncomfortable emotions
- experience conflict in your relationship or have ended relationships due to conflict
- struggle with finding connection with a partner and don’t know how to repair the conflict, distance or infidelity
- are grieving the loss of a loved one
- are going through a life transition
- long to find more purpose and meaning in your life
I invite you to reach out to me for deeper investigation and explore potential options to see what feels right to you.
“Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.”
– DEEPAK CHOPRA
MY GOAL IS TO HELP YOU DISCOVER YOUR OWN UNIQUE PATH TOWARD HEALING AND WHOLENESS. IN OUR WORK TOGETHER YOU’LL:
- learn to trust yourself and feel more confident in life
- create deeper, more meaningful, and more fulfilling relationships
- become happier, more satisfied, and more balanced in your everyday life
- create more connection in your life, your community and with your loved ones
- gain more tools for your toolbox, including communication skills, emotional regulation skills
- become empowered to handle challenging situations
- Improve self-esteem and become more self-confident
PHILOSOPHY AND MODALITIES
My therapeutic approach is strength-based
and combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy, Mindfulness, DBT, REBT, Personal Mythology, motivational interviewing, solution-focused therapy, cognitive restructuring, codependency, family systems, and the Gottman couples therapy model.
I incorporate the art of intuition, archetypes and dreamwork as modalities to access subconscious information. I am also a certified hypnotherapist, trained to help you access your subconscious with your permission and full awareness, to reach the inner depths of your knowing.
Additionally, I have extensive multicultural experience professionally and personally from living in Africa, Europe and the Middle East to studying cross culturally and living in a multicultural family for decades. I appreciate and have a working knowledge of the challenges faced by immigrants and community members from many other countries navigating displacement and relocation. My work includes supporting clients with this experience to help you meet your needs.
I possess the intuitive ability to connect your life and its context with the struggles that you’re experiencing, weaving together possible threads of past experience and insight for future growth and resolution.
I don’t have the answers for you––we’ll explore together. I believe that everyone already has their own answers. You know what you need, even if you don’t know how to access it yet.
I’m here to help you get past the blocks that prevent you from finding your answers.
I will always guide you through the process with kindness, respect, and a sense of safety, allowing space for vulnerability and self-discovery.
Hi, I’m Laura AKHAVAN
We have the inner wisdom needed to reach our highest potential. I work with you as a whole person, body, mind, spirit, in the context of individual experience, family, community, and culture.
Through collaborative work with varied theoretical approaches, I meet you where you are, develop goals and work through the process of small steps to make changes that shift the outcomes. You are the expert of your own experience, and I facilitate the process of change to meet your needs more effectively.
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