Laurel Fraser LMFT

Individual Therapy

EMDR – Trauma Therapy

IFS – Internal Family Systems

Insurance Accepted

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Laurel Fraser LMFT

Individual Therapy

EMDR – Trauma Therapy

IFS – Internal Family Systems

Insurance Accepted

Laurel Fraser LMFT


It is both my passion and my privilege to help clients reconnect with themselves and their relationships in ways that foster greater vitality, connection, and inner peace. Modalities such as IFS and EMDR are often able to facilitate this work more quickly and effectively than many traditional approaches. I am IFS Institute trained, with over 7 years of experience practicing IFS and more than 20 years of experience using EMDR.

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Laurel Fraser MA LMFT Portrait

How Therapy Can Benefit You

Working with a therapist is an investment in yourself—one that can deepen self-understanding, strengthen coping skills, and support meaningful, lasting change.

Clarity and Insight
Together, we explore patterns, triggers, and beliefs that may be limiting your growth, helping you better understand yourself and your responses to life.

Practical Tools
You’ll gain effective strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and depression, while also addressing the underlying experiences that contribute to these challenges.

Long-Term Growth
Therapy is not only for times of crisis. It also supports ongoing personal growth, healthier relationships, and more confident decision-making over time—helping you not just feel better, but live more fully. Seeing a therapist is an investment in your mental, emotional, and relational well-being.

Therapy provides a confidential, non-judgmental space to understand yourself more clearly, develop healthier coping strategies, and make meaningful, lasting changes in your life.

Therapy Services

Internal Family Systems

IFS Therapy
(Internal Family Systems)

Internal Family Systems allows clients to identify and deepen their understanding of the different parts of their personality with the goal of reconnecting clients with their healthy and authentic core self.

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Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy

I offer individual Telehealth therapy for adults across California. Sessions are thoughtfully personalized, grounded in a whole-person, trauma-informed, and culturally affirming approach. You are welcome here exactly as you are—your identity, experiences, and all parts of you.

EMDR Trauma Therapy

EMDR / Trauma Therapy

EMDR is an innovative clinical treatment that has successfully helped over a million individuals who have survived trauma, including sexual abuse, domestic violence, combat, crime, and those suffering from a number of other complaints including depressions, addictions, phobias and a variety of self-esteem issues.

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Trauma and Complex Trauma

I am committed to supporting those who have experienced trauma, including complex relational trauma (C-PTSD) and developmental trauma connected to early experiences, relationship wounds, and emotional pain. Trauma often shapes our lives in profound and far-reaching ways. My work goes beyond a trauma-informed framework, offering a relational, individualized approach that honors your unique story and supports healing at your own pace.

Therapy For Anxiety

Therapy For Anxiety

Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, tense, restless, or persistently on edge? Anxiety can become so woven into our inner world that it’s difficult to imagine life—or ourselves—without it. We are often encouraged to fix, manage, or push away these feelings, or to talk ourselves out of the fears and sensations driving our anxious parts. Instead, there are gentle and effective ways to turn toward anxiety with curiosity and compassion, helping us understand its protective role and support healing at a deeper level.

Therapy for Depression

Therapy For Depression

Depression can arise from many sources, including genetic vulnerability, unresolved trauma, difficult life transitions, loss, relationship challenges, work stress, chronic pain or illness, or an accumulation of stress that becomes overwhelming over time. Whether depression feels mild or severe, recent or long-standing, it can be met with compassion by gently getting to know the parts of you that are shaping this experience.
Feelings such as low mood, emptiness, persistent sadness, despair, heaviness, or a sense of stuckness can affect thoughts, energy, emotions, and even the body. These experiences are signals that something within is asking for understanding and care.

Life Changes and Transitions

Life Changes and Transitions

Life transitions—whether chosen or unexpected—can carry both hope and significant challenge. Major changes often create internal tension, pulling us between growth and the comfort of familiar patterns. Experiences such as career shifts, relationship changes, job loss, or the death of a loved one can unsettle our sense of stability and direction. Therapy focused on life transitions offers support in exploring identity, meaning, boundaries, communication, and grief, while helping you gain clarity and forward movement when decision-making feels stuck.

Addictive Processes and Patterns

Addictive Processes and Patterns

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy offers a compassionate, non-judgmental approach to understanding and working with addictive patterns such as numbing out, doom scrolling, soothing behaviors, disordered eating, compulsive spending or retail therapy, gambling, substance use, alcohol use, and other self-destructive behaviors. Within IFS, these patterns are viewed as protective parts attempting to manage or soothe deep emotional pain, rather than as signs of personal failure.

Relationship Challenges

Relationship Challenges

Relationships often stir parts of us, even when they are loving and important. When challenges arise with a partner, family member, friend, or coworker, IFS therapy offers a both/and approach—holding space for the relationship itself while also tending to the unhealed parts within you that are responding. The IFS concept of the tor-mentor reflects how those who trigger us can also reveal meaningful pathways toward healing.

Testimonials

  • With Compassion, Kindness, and Exquisite Skill

    “I am amazed by the impact of the work I’ve done with Laurel. I have uncovered and addressed decades old traumas that have informed my self-esteem and my choices. With deep compassion, kindness and exquisite skill, Laurel has guided me in identifying and healing childhood traumas. This is not talk therapy. This is healing therapy. My life looks different today as a direct result of the work I’ve done with Laurel. I am deeply grateful and in awe of the work Laurel facilitates.”
    M.J.
    Addiction Counselor

  • The only therapist to ever help me!

    I have seen Laurel off and on since 1996 and I’ve tried other therapists in between when I didn’t live local to her office. She has been the only one who ever actually provided me relief from my cPTSD and the difficult events that were occurring. While I am not a huge fan of Telehealth, I am so grateful that she does this so I could see her recently. Her use of EMDR in the past along with IFS recently has been life changing for me. She has helped me process my trauma and change the old behaviors that were no longer serving me. Every session I found some sort of nugget to understand how things affected my brain, and almost always had a new way to cope with the issue we were working on that session. After a year and a half of IFS, I felt confident enough to end my sessions and I know that whenever life throws another curve ball at me and I need help, she will make herself available to me. She has always been accommodating and kind. I highly recommend her!



    Via Health Grades

  • Laurel is life changing!!!!!

    I wish everyone were able to have a therapist like laurel because it would truly change their life. There really aren’t enough words to express how my life has changed since finding laurel….from the beginning when I started with her I always felt heard , understood and knew she wanted to help me and give me life tools, coping skills and mental stability . I have seen every aspect of my life change from being a wife to a mother and being an adult woman processing deep childhood trauma. She gently guides you down a road of growth and healing with no stone left unturned. from my past experiences what makes laurel different is that she is compassionate and genuinely cares for her clients. Unexpectedly my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, laurel was nothing but supportive and helped me process and grieve. I’m am extremely grateful for this woman and so blessed to have found her!



    Via Health Grades

  • Laurels’ kindness and gentleness makes for a safe place to do the work. You go at your pace, fast or slow.


    I have been seeing Laurel for a little less than 2 years. The work we have done in that time has changed my life.  None of it has been easy but the way it’s changed my life is incredible. After the particularly harder weeks she Laurel has made herself available outside of my appointment time, which says to me she really cares about her clients. Laurels kindness and gentleness makes for a safe place to do the work. You go at your pace, fast or slow.
    JB
    So Cal Edison

  • Even my family doctor noticed a big difference in me

    I knew I was feeling better, but I was surprised when my family and even my family doctor noticed a big difference in me after only a couple months of work with Laurel.
    Caryn T.
    Stay At Home Mom

  • Our therapy work together was the final step in healing wounds of the past

    For me, our therapy was the final step in healing wounds of the past. Traditional counseling of today helps you identify the wounds. But this work not only identifies problem areas, it provides the tools to take ACTION to eliminate them. I would recommend this therapy to anyone troubled with past childhood issues and traumas.
    Dorothy L
    Retired Teacher

  • Both her presence and process provide significant relief and healing.

    Having an IFS session with Laurel is like receiving a gift. She’s an expert guide, gently navigating tender places and honoring all parts. Both her presence and process provide significant relief and healing.
    K.M.
    Writer/Editor

  • Helped stop the nightmares and got me back to work.”

    In my work I deal with a lot of trauma situations, EMDR helped stop the nightmares and got me back to work.
    John P.
    Police Officer

  • It has been significantly more effective than traditional talk therapy for me.

    I have found this work to be a valuable tool in resolving childhood issues. It has helped me recognize and resolve some of the behaviors that were related to my childhood traumas and were working against me in my life. I highly recommend this as a form of treatment as it has been significantly more effective than traditional talk therapy for me.
    Tammy P.
    Administrative Assistant

  • These “voices” used to tell me I was not capable, competent, beautiful, worthy, etc

    When I started this work I had spent most of my life with low self-esteem.  I was able to realize the sources of this low self-esteem and find an effective way to banish the “voices” associated with it.  These “voices” used to tell me I was not capable, competent, beautiful, worthy, etc.   It is a wonderful feeling to know that I am all of those things, and this treatment has increased my confidence dramatically.
    Chris M.
    Administrator

  • I was able to address painful experiences in my youth that were affecting my adult life

    I had nothing but positive experiences working with Laurel Fraser.  Sometimes the work was hard, but Laurel guides you and is sensitive and kind.  With Laurel’s help, I was able to address painful experiences in my youth that were affecting my adult life.  There were some obvious things, and some things that were hidden, and I didn’t even know they were bothering me.  But, they were all affecting me, and how I dealt with daily issues.  I had so much depression and anxiety, I couldn’t even sit still, and crying was a daily occurrence.  Now, I have freedom and relief.  There is such a weight that comes off your shoulders when a small problem isn’t blown into a huge ordeal.  There are still hard times that come, but now I know hard and bad times will always pass – they are no longer an ominous creature that looms over me constantly.  I can deal with these hard situations better, and I am in control of my own life, instead of having my problems control me.
    Heather J.
    Office Manager