Laura Todd

Throughout my career, I have always focused on supporting families and young children to form strong and healthy bonds. Being a parent is hard, especially when one feels isolated. I am here to provide a lifeline and support for understanding and supporting your child and to become the parent that you want to be. I want to support you with concrete and tangible tools to help you feel successful as a parent, but also feel authentic to who you are and how you want to parent.

My passion for working has always focused on young children. I have worked with a variety of issues, such as anxiety, emotional regulation and expression, grief and loss, life transitions, such as starting school or a new sibling, and trauma. The early stages of childhood are so important for the overall health and well-being of a child and can impact their development later on. I believe in preventive mental health work to address issues early on before they become more serious later on.

The journey to becoming a parent can produce a range of emotions and feelings. From pregnancy to postpartum there is a lot of adjustment happening for the birth parent, partner, and additional family members. I want to support families as they go through this transition and acknowledge and validate whatever feelings may be present during that time.

As a dance/movement therapist, the body is a huge tool as part of the therapeutic process. I use sensory and body-based regulation to support my clients in learning practice and tangible tools to help manage their range of emotional expressions and as a form of self-care to handle the stresses of day-to-day life.

Having worked with children for the majority of my career I have developed and learned several types of play therapy techniques to use in support of my therapeutic work. I love seeing children being able to express themselves more freely and easily through the play interactions and using that to help understand them and help their parents to understand their child's needs more.

I am a Registered Dance/movement therapist, but I am trained across all expressive therapies, which I use throughout my practice to help facilitate emotional regulation and expression. I use any of the modalities of expressive arts to the extent that the client is comfortable with it to help facilitate the therapeutic process but never force those who do not feel comfortable with these modalities.