DR laura durkin lmft

She/her
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
PhD Counselor Education & Supervision
License # 60944449

The modalities guiding my practice are ones I have personally found valuable in my own ongoing journey toward self-understanding, emotional regulation, and clarity. Everything I guide clients through, I have done or continue to do myself. At the heart of my approach is a collaborative stance of humility — supporting clients in developing a deeper, more intimate relationship with themselves as I do the same.The parallel process of the therapeutic dynamic is something I whole heartedly embrace as humans navigating the complexities of life in tandem.

Over the past decade of training and practice, I have studied relationship-oriented counseling, behavioral, parent-child interventions, yoga, mindfulness, and somatic, psychodynamic (body-oriented) approaches. My clinical background spans crisis intervention, child welfare, in-home settings, and the intersection of mental health and legal systems. Prior to counseling, I worked as a childcare provider and yoga/movement teacher, and have taught courses at the graduate level across several Seattle-area counseling programs.

Currently, I work with couples, individuals, supervisees, and other licensed professionals in my role as a WA State Approved Clinical Supervisor. In 2025, I completed my doctorate from Antioch University's Counselor Education and Supervision program, with dissertation research focused on accessibility in higher education. My theoretical framework integrates intersectional feminism and liberation psychology, attachment and developmental neuroscience, EMDR, and yoga/movement/mindfulness.

I enjoy working with neurodivergent, highly sensitive, spiritual, intellectualized, open minded individuals and relational systems. Clients and supervisees describe me as thoughtful, responsive, collaborative, curious, and nonjudgmental. On a personal level, I am a highly sensitive, spiritual being. I am a mother of two young children, partner, daughter, sister, and friend. I like to practice yoga, paint/doodle (all website art is my own), write, dance, hike/camp, cook, embrace silence, and connect with loved ones.

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Birth Part III Things I didn’t know were possible. I didn’t know that babies heads can come out quite cone shaped when born (from being in the birth canal during a prolonged delivery). During my second birth, when my doula arrived a
Birth Part II For my second birth, I decided I wanted to go with a birth center instead of a hospital setting. This aligned with my desires to have a un-interfered upon birth process (sans induction interventions and an epideral). I wanted to experi
Birth Part I I went into pregnancy with, what I thought was, a fair amount of knowledge about child development, pregnancy and birth. I had watched documentaries, read books, and listened to podcasts. I started off with an OBGYN for my care. In appo
Give Donating money to non profit, action oriented organizations is a way I feel connected and involved to causes I care about, even when I am physically and mentally drained. For me, listening to the newest heartbreaking news story can be counte
Bodywork I walked into my first craniosacral session about 8 years ago. It had been recommended in a somatic training I was taking. As I sat down with the practitioner, her presence enveloped me. She calmly and methodically asked me questions about
Trauma Therapies My first experience with a trauma specific therapy was EMDR. It was during an unfortunate (and quite irresponsible) fish bowl style EMDR demonstration with one of my very well intentioned professors. I had eagerly raised my hand as
Reconnect with Long Lost Friends I went to New York City a couple of years ago. My mom, my 7 month old, and I took the subway, walked around the city and filled those 4 days with as much as we possibly could absorb. It was totally exhasting but lov
Journaling When I journal or voice note or write this like, I am able to organize my thoughts. I am sticking to a single stream of consciousness. I am focusing on one thought long enough to make sense of it. An inner truth, a wisdom within myself i
Intrusive Thoughts and Post Partum OCD/anxiety When I was newly postpartum after my first child was born, I started experiencing disturbing random thoughts. Like - what if I accidentally mixed my baby in the laundry basket and put him in the washing