Laura Fisher-Caudill

LCMHC, LPC

My journey in the mental health field began in early life through my own experiences of suffering and complex trauma in my family. Growing up in a family consumed by grief and trauma was an emotional rollercoaster. The environment around me seemed chaotic, unpredictable, and unsafe at times, which created a sense of distress, chaos, and distrust of my own intuition and wisdom within myself. I often felt overwhelmed by my emotions and would struggle to find effective ways to cope with pain and suffering from traumatic life experiences. Through this difficulty in early life, I found solace in helping others who were also struggling through their own experiences of trauma. My passion and value of helping others pushed me forward on a path towards healing from my own experiences of trauma through a holistic healing approach, as well as helping those around me on their own journeys towards healing.

Following several years of work in the mental health field in my 20’s, I decided to pursue my Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2016. I realized early on in my work with clients that Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was the modality to which I was most drawn and best fit my own philosophies on life and style as a therapist. Since then, I’ve specialized in helping individuals recognize and reframe their thoughts and emotions, heal from past trauma, improve their relationships with loved ones, and create their life worth living through tangible skills and changes in their behaviors. My therapeutic framework has evolved and become more integrative throughout my experience as a trauma therapist and I am most drawn to modalities of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Somatic body based approaches to nervous system regulation and releasing stored emotions and experiences in the body through my trauma processing work with clients.