Specializing
in trauma, loss, and life transitions.

Life transitions are difficult – even the happy occasions: 
marriage or a new relationship,  arrival of a new baby, starting college or a new job, going back to the workplace after COVID, growing up and moving away from home,  or empty nesting.

Lauri specializes in counseling for adults  who are experiencing these life transitions, grief, loss, health concerns, trauma survival, and all of the emotional responses that can keep us from living life to the fullest.

Treatment Philosophy and Focus

Lauri's approach to therapy has evolved over the years into a whole person focus when working alongside individuals who seek to become clear about their emotional reactions to life situations. Facilitating a state of awareness is the focus of therapy with unconditional support and compassion being therapeutic tools used during individual, group, and couples' sessions.

Lauri accesses unique techniques having been shown to empower the people she has had the opportunity to work with.

Education and Experience

Lauri is a licensed counselor who obtained both her graduate and undergraduate degrees from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She also has a diploma from Health Enrichment Center in Lapeer, Michigan in massage therapy and has a Diplomat Certification in CranioSacral and SomatoEmotional Release Therapies from the Upledger Institute of West Palm Beach, Florida.

​Lauri has worked in state hospital settings, community mental health and outpatient centers, acute psychiatric hospitals, residential programs, and many private practices.

Lauri is a Michigan Licensed Professional Counselor and also holds a Michigan license as a massage therapist which supports her SomatoEmotional Release work.

Michigan LLPC Supervision and Consulting to Practicing Therapists

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Lauri offers supervision for LLPCs  working to obtain Michigan LPC licensing.  Her focus for supervision is on psychodynamic and feminist models, and her emphasis is to help you develop skills based on your interests and goals.

She also provides consultations for practicing therapists.

Effective therapy requires therapists to be committed to their ongoing mental health introspection known as deep internal work.  To be able to “do the work” the therapist must “get the work”.  By exploring our own inner processes, we can be more present to our clients.  Her emphasis in this work focuses on aspects of the therapeutic relationship where the therapist may be questioning and reviewing their own self-care commitment. She uses elements of somatoemotional release, psychodynamic and feminist psychotherapies to help inform the work that is done.

Contact and Fees

All appointments are currently conducted via videoconferencing or phone. 
​Discussion of fees and insurance coverage will be made when contacted. 

Appointments can be made by phone at 517-227-0475
or by clicking the button below.