Laura Lynd
I’m a trauma-informed, licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families across a variety of settings. I specialize in working with individuals and families navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, behavioral challenges, family conflict, and major life transitions. I especially enjoy working with autistic and neurodivergent clients and the families who support them, as well as children and adolescents impacted by abuse, neglect and foster care. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and strength-based. I believe therapy should be a place where you feel heard, respected, understood, and safe enough to be honest about what you’re experiencing. I work alongside my clients to better understand the experiences and patterns that may be keeping them feeling stuck, while developing practical coping skills and strategies that fit their individual needs.
I specialize in supporting individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, behavioral challenges and family conflict.
Whether you’re struggling with the effects of trauma, navigating anxiety or depression, working through relationship or family challenges, or simply feeling overwhelmed by where life has taken you, I’m here to help you make sense of what you’re experiencing and identify a path forward. My goal is to empower clients to build healthier coping skills, strengthen their relationships, develop greater self-understanding and move toward meaningful growth and healing.
First session
The first session is an assessment meeting focused on gaining a comprehensive understanding of your current concerns, personal history, emotional functioning, and treatment goals. During this session, we will discuss the challenges that brought you to therapy, review relevant mental health, family, relationship, and life experiences, and explore the areas where you would like support and growth. This meeting also provides an opportunity to establish rapport, discuss the therapeutic process and determine the most appropriate treatment approach based on your individual needs and strengths. My goal is to create a supportive, trauma-informed and nonjudgmental environment where you feel comfortable sharing at your own pace while collaboratively identifying goals for treatment and ongoing care.
Strengths
My greatest strength as a therapist is my ability to build genuine therapeutic relationships grounded in trust, empathy, and emotional safety. I work to create an environment where clients feel comfortable being themselves, sharing difficult experiences, and exploring things they may not feel safe discussing elsewhere. With 13 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, I bring flexibility and a broad understanding of the different ways people experience and respond to challenges. I take a trauma-informed, collaborative, and strength-based approach, meeting each client where they are rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach. I also value helping clients recognize their own resilience and strengths, particularly when those strengths may be difficult for them to see. Together, we work to develop practical coping skills, improve relationships, navigate challenges, and create meaningful and sustainable change.
Ideal clients
I am best positioned to support children, adolescents, adults, couples and families who are navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, behavioral challenges, addiction, and major life stressors. I work well with clients who may feel overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, disconnected, or uncertain about how to move forward and are seeking a supportive, collaborative and nonjudgmental therapeutic environment. I have extensive experience working with neurodivergent individuals, including autistic clients, as well as children and adolescents impacted by abuse, neglect, family conflict, foster care involvement and complex trauma. I also support individuals struggling with emotional regulation, OCD, ODD, recovery from substance use or gambling addiction and relationship or family challenges. My therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, strength-based, and client-centered. I help clients build coping skills, improve communication, process difficult experiences, strengthen relationships, and develop practical strategies that support emotional wellness, resilience, and long-term healing.
Origin story
My path to becoming a therapist began with a strong desire to understand people, relationships, and the experiences that shape who we are. I’ve always been someone who wants to ask questions, understand the “why” behind things, and have enough information to make thoughtful and informed decisions. That curiosity eventually grew into a passion for helping others have that same opportunity. As I learned more about human behavior, relationships, and the impact of our experiences, I realized how meaningful it can be to have someone who truly listens, helps you make sense of what you are experiencing, and creates space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings without judgment. Over the past 13 years, I have had the opportunity to work with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families across a variety of settings. I’ve especially found meaning in working with individuals and families impacted by trauma, neurodivergence, abuse, neglect, foster care, anxiety, depression, grief, behavioral challenges, and relationship difficulties. What I love most about being a therapist is witnessing the resilience of the human spirit. People can experience incredibly difficult things and still find ways to grow, adapt, heal, and move forward. I feel privileged to walk alongside clients during those moments—to help them recognize strengths they may not see in themselves, make sense of their experiences, and discover what is possible beyond what they have been through.
Ongoing work together
Our work together will be collaborative and tailored to your individual needs and goals. We’ll take time to understand what you’re experiencing, identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and develop practical tools that you can use in your everyday life. You’ll know you’re making progress when you begin to understand yourself and your experiences with greater clarity, feel more confident managing difficult emotions, and notice that challenges feel more manageable. Progress may also look like communicating more effectively, setting healthier boundaries, responding differently when you’re overwhelmed, strengthening relationships, or feeling more comfortable being yourself. Therapy isn’t about becoming a different person or never struggling again. It’s about developing the understanding, skills, and confidence to navigate life’s challenges while recognizing the resilience and strengths you already have. We’ll regularly check in on what is working, what isn’t, and what you need as you move toward the changes that are meaningful to you.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help children, adolescents, adults, couples and families identify unhealthy thought patterns, improve emotional regulation, and develop effective coping skills. I have utilized CBT interventions with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, OCD, ODD, grief, addiction, behavioral challenges, trauma-related symptoms, and neurodivergent presentations, including individuals on the autism spectrum across multiple settings.
Family Therapy
I use a family systems approach to strengthen communication, improve family dynamics and support healthier relationships within the family unit. I have experience providing family therapy for children, adolescents, parents, and caregivers in multiple environments while addressing behavioral concerns, trauma, conflict and family transitions.
Strength-Based
I incorporate psychoeducation and strength-based interventions to help clients better understand mental health symptoms, develop coping strategies and build on existing strengths. I have provided psychoeducation in individual, family, and group settings related to trauma, addiction, recovery, emotional regulation, behavioral health and wellness.
Trauma-Informed Care
I provide trauma-informed therapy using evidence-based approaches, including EMDR, to support clients impacted by abuse, neglect, grief, domestic violence, exploitation, addiction and complex trauma. My experience includes working with commercially sexually exploited children, children removed from parental care and individuals experiencing significant emotional and behavioral challenges while promoting safety, stabilization, healing and resilience.
Solution-Focused Brief Treatment
I use Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to help clients identify strengths, build practical solutions and establish achievable treatment goals. I incorporate this approach to support individuals and families experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, adjustment difficulties, and relational stress while encouraging empowerment and resilience.
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Virtual sessions
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- ArizonaLicense LMFT-16516