Laura Seipel

Bio

Laura is a Licensed Professional Counselor and master’s-level, Board-Certified Art Therapist with specialized training in FLASH trauma processing. She has experience working in psychiatric hospital settings with a wide range of populations. Laura is also a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C), having completed her Perinatal Mental Health Certification program to support mothers, fathers, and families experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

As a Board-Certified Art Therapist, Laura strongly believes that creative expression can be a powerful therapeutic tool. If a client finds creativity helpful, meaningful, or even just intriguing, art therapy can be an incredibly beneficial way to explore emotions, build insight, and foster healing. Laura believes that people of all ages can create art and use the process to better understand themselves.

By integrating traditional counseling approaches with a variety of therapeutic modalities—such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Person-Centered Therapy—Laura helps clients find balance and reconnect with their authentic selves. For trauma work, Laura is trained to use The Flash Technique, which is designed to be gentler and less distressing compared to the other trauma modalities. The Flash Technique is more applicable for single-event traumas vs multiple events. For trauma work, Laura is trained to use The Flash Technique, which is designed to be gentler and less distressing compared to the other trauma modalities. The Flash Technique is more applicable for single-event traumas vs multiple events. She is passionate about supporting individuals as they navigate life transitions, such as leaving home for college or a first job, experiencing pregnancy and early parenthood, or exploring identity and belonging as a member or as an ally of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Laura’s focus areas include grief, trauma-informed care and trauma processing using FLASH, ADHD, ASD, LGBTQ+ identity concerns, perinatal mood disorders (pre- and post-partum), motherhood, and life-phase transitions. She enjoys working with clients ages 13 and up, including pre-teens, teens, adults, and individuals exploring gender identity.

Laura sees clients in-person on Mondays at our Woodstock office (3217 S Cherokee Ln Suite 730, Woodstock, GA 30188), as well as Telehealth sessions on Mondays and Fridays. She only works out of this office on this specific day and is not available at our other locations.

Her areas of focus and expertise include, but are not limited to:

• Adjustment Issues (such as moving, new job, new school, acute trauma like fire/car accident/flood etc)
• ADHD focused therapy 
• Anxiety
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Bipolar Mood Disorders
• Coping Skills
• Depression
• Focus and Motivation
• Grief and Loss
• Identity Issues/Gender dysphoria
• LGBTQ+ related issues
• Motherhood
• Parenthood
• Perinatal Anxiety
• Perinatal Depression
• Perinatal/Postpartum Psychosis
• Perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Perinatal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• PTSD
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Harming
• Stress
• Suicidal Ideation
• Trauma