Laura Fine Therapy
for Individuals and Relationships
My Approach
Hi. I'm Laura. There are a couple of metaphors I like for doing therapy with me.
If you like fantasy at all, maybe this one will resonate with you. In Ursula K. Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan, she writes about a young woman who is the keeper of an underground maze. It's pitch black, and she is always in there alone. Sometimes she goes down there to learn the maze, because it's hers. There are rooms in it where there is light that she likes to visit. It also has treacherous parts and she is terrified of getting lost in there, unable to get back to the surface. At one point, the woman is lost in the maze and trying to escape before some sort of terrible fate.
Luckily she is with a wizard who has the power to keep her safe and also create light. Together, they work with her intuition and his skill to find their way out. This is what I can help you do. I will gently and warmly make it safe enough to get to know your maze, and we will help you figure out how to find your way out.
I honestly believe that together we can figure out how to help you move through most things. Give me a call and let me know what’s going on with you. I work hard to make my office a safe space for all sexual orientations and gender identities. It's also important to me that all marginalized racial and religious identities feel heard and supported. If you are wanting to work on something and I don’t feel like a great fit for doing that work, I’d be happy to help you find someone who might be a better match. That being said, here are some of my areas of interest:
Childhood Trauma
Polyamory/Open Relationships
Intellectual Giftedness
Being smart can be a socially isolating, depressing and existentially confusing experience.
I believe that couples can have healthy, happy, secure non-monogamous relationships.
Family Estrangement
Estrangement from a family member is often an incredibly painful experience.
Heightened Sensitivity & Empathy
Relational Trauma
When children grow up with inconsistent caregivers, they learn that they need to protect themselves from people that they depend on.
Research indicates that 15-20% of the population have a personality trait known as Sensory Processing Sensitivity.
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Life Transitions
There is a certain kind of chaos when one or both of the adults in your house is struggling with alcohol abuse.
Major life changes can bring up an incredible, and often surprising, amount of emotion.
Healing from Infidelity
Infidelity can feel like an irreparable blow to a partnership, but it doesn’t have to be.
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There are so many parts of our childhood that we might carry with us into adulthood in ways that are not feeling good.
Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety and depression often go together and they are usually our system’s way of expressing unresolved pain.