About Me

You hold it together for everyone else. At work, at home, and in the moments that demand your best, you stay steady. Laura Halford helps you recover from burnout, PTSD, and chronic high stress, so that staying steady doesn’t come at your own expense.

She works with executives, professionals, first responders, pilots, and couples, people whose outer responsibilities often hide inner distress. A Navy Reserve veteran from a military family, Laura understands that long service and high-pressure roles affect both individuals and relationships. Since 2010 she has supported first responders and their families, as well as veterans and commercial pilots, and she serves as a Mental Health Professional with the Bellevue Police Department and Bothell Police and Fire.

Her approach is integrative, drawing on EMDR, family systems, addiction recovery models, mindfulness, and a long-standing meditation practice. She is pragmatic, direct, and reflective, and she lets you set the pace. Laura offers EMDR therapy, meditation instruction, and individual mental health and substance use treatment.

She also works with helping professionals who are carrying compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, and she knows how hard it is to care for yourself while caring for others.

Laura comes from three generations of helping professionals. Her grandfather, a psychiatrist, taught her that meditation, nutrition, and group process are foundations for healing.