Laura Deneen
LPC-MHSP, CEDS-S, ACS, NCC
Owner + Director
Licensed Professional Counselor/Mental Health Services Provider, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist-Supervisor, Approved Clinical Supervisor and Nationally Credentialed Counselor
My Approach
Laura enjoys working with clients presenting with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders as well as clients desiring to improve the quality of their relationships, heal past trauma(s), and live a life congruent with their values.
As a clinician, Laura values building a foundation of safety through curiosity, patience, and collaboration towards shared goals. Her therapeutic style is warm, direct, and compassionate. She challenges and provides feedback when appropriate, and prioritizes reflecting areas of growth, change and healing in clients. Laura believes that a strong therapeutic relationship can be one of the vehicles towards change and honors the vulnerability that occurs within the therapeutic space.
She believes that clients know themselves best and supports her clients in accessing their innate wisdom that may be covered by hurts, wounds, or traumas. Laura supports her clients in building body trust and practices from a Health at Every Size (HAES) and trauma-informed approach. Further, Laura believes in her client’s ability to access hope and to implement lasting change in their lives.
I enjoy working with...
- Anxiety, specifically clients who struggle with looping thoughts, restlessness, or struggle with how others perceive them, and clients who desire to live in a more present-focused, values-based way
- Depression, specifically clients who desire to work through past wounds and heal negative core beliefs about themselves.
- Eating disorders, all diagnoses or clients who may not meet criteria for a diagnosis but desire more peace in their relationship with food & their bodies
- Clients working towards body peace and attunement through embodiment work
- Family of origin work through an attachment-based lens
- Trauma (specifically, sexual trauma, recovery from childhood sexual abuse or recovery from abusive relationships/domestic violence)
- Clients wanting to explore their spirituality in the context of mental health
- Clients wanting support around life adjustment concerns (relationship concerns, boundary setting, and communication skills)
- High level executives and business owners, specifically clients who desire to improve their mental health in their professional lives
Therapies I Use
- CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)
- DBT (dialetical behavioral therapy)
- ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy)
- ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy)
- EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy)
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
More About Me
Prior to working in a private practice setting, Laura worked in a nonprofit counseling setting and for an eating disorder treatment center, where she provided treatment to clients at a partial inpatient and intensive outpatient level of care.
Outside of her time with clients, Laura enjoys spending time with her husband and baby girl, riding horses, playing with her sweet Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Louie, trying new restaurants in Nashville, and collecting more household plants.
Want to Work With Laura?
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