Therapists and Healing Practitioners,
Access your highest potential for helping clients heal
Mentoring, Supervision, and Consultation for your clinical practice
Embody the wise, calm, healing resource within.
Welcome to our supportive, international community, where we hold your clinical questions, challenges, and vulnerabilities with genuine curiosity and care. With over two decades of experience as a family systems therapist, supervisor, and mentor for therapists, I'm here to support you on your journey towards greater ease, clarity, and self-assurance.
In our work together, your hard-working helper parts will gradually relax, trusting in your compassionate, innate source of healing wisdom and you’ll begin to embody greater ease and spaciousness in both your personal and professional life. Together, we'll welcome the trailheads as your parts learn to trust in the wise and healing resource of your Self energy during sessions.
Laura Schmidt, LMFT
Mentor & Therapist for Therapists
Clinician for 26 years
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Mentoring for Group Leaders
Do you want to launch and lead your own group but don’t know where to start? This unique opportunity gives you Laura’s Behind-the-Scenes tips and insights from years leading dozens of online groups with hundreds of clinicians. Work with the parts this endeavor stirs up and connect with colleagues with similar concerns!
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Online IFS Clinical Consultation Groups
Join our vibrant, international IFS Consultation Community! Increase your clinical skills, confidence and Self leadership. Restore your energy for this work and capacity to help your clients without burning out.
*Designated groups count towards IFS Certification
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Workshops, speaking, retreats
Expand your application and proficiency with IFS and experience this transformational framework directly with Laura. Or hear how IFS helped her navigate a traumatic brain injury and chronic medical diagnosis. Let’s explore how Laura can support you or your organization.
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Individual Therapy, Consultation or Supervision
Work directly with Laura in Individual Therapy for Therapists, IFS-I Approved Consultation or AAMFT Approved Supervision (as a secondary supervisor).
*Limited availability.
Reclaim the hope, energy, and purpose you first brought to your practice
Many clinicians feel they're working too hard in sessions, leading to discouragement, self doubt and the looming threat of burnout. The high standards you set for yourself may become more of a burden than a benchmark. If you're struggling with setting boundaries, feeling ineffective or overwhelmed by challenging cases, it’s time for a change. Working together will increase your skills and Self leadership so your practice is sustained by your presence, clarity and confidence, rather than your hard-working, helping managers. It truly is possible to have more energy and hope now than you did when you first entered the field!
“It was wonderful to have Laura assist me at the Cape Cod Institute. Her expertise was an important ingredient in the success of the week. In addition to being a very strong IFS therapist, Laura is able to teach and supervise IFS clearly and thoroughly. I highly recommend her.”
DR. RICHARD SCHWARTZ, IFS FOUNDER
About Laura Schmidt
For the first ten years of my career, I assumed that eye to eye, in-person therapist/client sessions were essential for support and healing. My skeptical parts never imagined the role telehealth would eventually play in my work. In 2008, when IFS unexpectedly chose me, I took a leap of faith and began phone therapy across the country with the only IFS therapist I knew at the time, IFS Founder, Dr. Richard Schwartz. I recorded these sessions on cassette tapes and transcribed every one of them to deepen my healing and fluency in the Model. Soon after, remote learning and Zoom meetings became my only option for professional connection after suffering a traumatic injury that kept me home bound for years.
Personal tragedy followed by a global pandemic became the catalyst for me to expand my professional focus to serve the wider IFS community. I’m thrilled and grateful to have developed a vibrant, diverse, international online IFS group consultation community with hundreds of professionals, spanning 33 countries and 19 time zones. As a lifelong adventurer and former professional road cyclist, my managers most fully relax and replenish in nature year-round even in remote, challenging conditions. I bring that renewed Self energy, resiliency and clarity to my groups, therapy and teaching and look forward to working with you!