Click here to contact our client care coordinator about working with Laura!
Specialties include:
-Infants, Children, Adolescents & Adults
-LGBTQIA2+ Affirming
-Trans and Non-Binary Affirming
-Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
-Neurodivergency (ADHD, Autism, etc)
-Spirituality
-Emotional Regulation
-Anxiety & Depression
-Attachment/Family of Origin
-Abuse & Trauma Recovery
-Parenting & Relationship Issues
-Family Therapy
*EMDR Therapist
​
Telehealth Only
Laura is in-network with Premera, Cigna, First Choice, LifeWise, Regence, Anthem and some other Blue Cross plans and can also bill in network with Kaiser for transgender clients. Please be aware that Protea Wellness cannot accept insurance for couple's therapy.
Laura's fees:
-
50-minute session for individuals: $195
-
50-minute session for families: $195;
-
80-minute session for couples: $295.
Laura Durkin, LMFT
Pronouns: she/her
Being a therapist is one of my life’s clearest callings. Throughout the last 10+ years in practice, I am repeatedly drawn to the challenge and joy of connecting to clients amidst pain and co-cultivating a viable path towards greater vibrancy.
As humans, we can lose touch with our emotions, intuitive wisdom, and decision-making capacity through hardships. I believe (and contemporary science supports this!) that this happens on all layers of our being: physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and interpersonally. My role as a counselor is to help you make greater contact with the prismatic intelligence within.
My approach...
For individual counseling, I work well with folks who have come to a place of “stuckness” in typical talk therapy or long to connect to a deeper psychosomatic spiritual wisdom within. This can include clients with chronic pain and/or mysterious physical health issues. As humans, we experience trauma, difficult relationships, and/or systemic oppression in our intergenerationally influenced nervous systems. Our physical bodies can hold onto unfelt emotions behind complex walls of muscular defenses.
In somatic oriented therapy, I integrate polyvagal theory, “parts” work, and EMDR to help clients access and digest whatever stuckness exists. From a trauma-informed, consent orientation this happens at whatever pace is sustainable. Through this gentle and deep process, clients often report an embodied shift towards authenticity.
In relationship or couples counseling, I work with clients to create a safer, stronger, and more resilient connection to one another. Building felt capacity for the relational system to hold truth, emotions, and accountability is fundamental. Along the way, recognizing how the macro influences of the world play out and impact dynamics is essential.
Asa cis/het white woman, I am compelled to constantly question and address how my power operates as a mental health professional. I deeply appreciate working with clients from a wide range of life circumstances and cultural backgrounds, including neurodivergent, LBGTQIA2+ and BIPOC individuals. Asa therapist, I am committed to continually expanding my range of what it means to help heal in a complicated world beyond my own experience/personal bias. My deepest mission is to bring a non-judgmental, relational, non-harming stance to my role as a therapist
Professional training & memberships...
I received my master’s degree in Couple and Family Therapy from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 2016. I am a current Counselor Education and Supervision doctoral candidate at Antioch University. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and an Approved Clinical Supervisor in Washington state.
I have also completed advanced training in several areas of counseling including somatic/trauma-informed approaches to healing (including body psychotherapy, polyvagal, and EMDR). I am extensively trained in family systems (as I worked for five years within the child welfare and family law systems as a family preservation specialist, parent coach, and family reunification therapist). These include certification in Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) and advanced training in AF-CBT (Alternatives for Families: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). Finally, I
have completed several advanced trainings and certifications in yoga/mindfulness over the last 15 years which highly inform my work as a therapist.