Laura Van Gilder, MSW, ASW #119690
Supervised by Debra Kenney ACSW # 116012
At A Place to Turn, we are honored to welcome Laura to our clinical team. Laura is a holistic therapist offering client-centered counseling for individuals and families, with a deep commitment to supporting the whole person—mind, body, and soul. She helps clients restore balance, reduce stress, and reconnect with emotional and energetic well-being.
Laura specializes in working with neurodiverse individuals, parenting challenges, trauma recovery, and inner child healing. She supports clients navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, stress, and life transitions, recognizing that emotional, mental, and energetic systems are deeply interconnected.
Laura believes there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to therapy. She works collaboratively with clients to create a personalized treatment plan aligned with their needs, goals, and lived experiences. Her integrative therapy approach blends evidence-based and holistic modalities, including:
At the heart of Laura’s work is a belief in inner wisdom. Through mindfulness, self-reflection, and gentle inner exploration, she helps clients gain clarity and reconnect with themselves. For those who feel drawn to deeper meaning-making, Laura offers mindfulness-based therapy, inner exploration, and past life regression to support self-connection, insight, and understanding of one’s life path.
Laura provides a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental therapy space where clients are encouraged to be their authentic selves and heal at their own pace. She works with children, adolescents, and adults and welcomes clients of all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, and lived experiences.
Laura is currently accepting new clients.
To schedule an appointment, please contact info@aplace2turn.com.
Laura works with children, adolescents, and adults, as well as individuals and families. She supports clients navigating neurodiversity, parenting concerns, trauma, inner child healing, anxiety, stress, and life transitions.
Laura uses an integrative, holistic therapy approach, combining CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing (MI), EMDR therapy, and certified hypnotherapy. All treatment is personalized and collaborative.
Yes. Laura is a trauma-informed therapist trained in EMDR therapy for trauma. She works gently and at your pace to help process difficult experiences and restore emotional safety.
Yes. Laura offers holistic therapy that honors the mind–body–soul connection. For clients who are interested, she also provides mindfulness-based therapy, inner exploration, and past life regression.
Absolutely. Laura supports neurodiverse individuals and families using a strengths-based, affirming approach that honors each person’s unique way of experiencing the world.
Yes. Laura provides a safe, inclusive, and nonjudgmental space for clients of all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, and lived experiences.
Your first session is a chance to share what brings you to therapy, ask questions, and begin identifying goals. Laura will collaborate with you to create a supportive, personalized treatment plan.
To schedule a session, please contact info@aplace2turn.com.
From anxiety and depression to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we utilize holistic talk therapies and innovative treatments like eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR).
