Meet Laura Firestone

Laura is a licensed marriage family therapist and the founder of The Firestone Group with over a decade of experience managing a team of therapists. She has a specialty in attachment work that has deepened over the years and is an ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist.

Her career began researching couples communication as an undergraduate at UC Davis and continued with her research assistant role at UC Berkeley. She studied at Northwestern University and earned her MS in Marriage Family Therapy.

Laura’s Specialties

Her areas of interest include couples & relationship work, stress/burnout, life transitions, anxiety (including general anxiety, OCD, and panic attacks), depression, and perinatal/postpartum work. She uses evidenced-based models, including emotionally focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance commitment therapy, exposure response prevention, mindfulness, and family systems to integrate what will be most helpful for each client. 

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PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Laura is a certified EFT Couple Therapist and has done extensive advanced work to deepen her work with couples. Her areas of work with couples include pre-marital work, communication difficulties, high conflict, intimacy issues, substance abuse, infidelity and other relationship ruptures. She is involved with the Northern California Chapter for EFT and served on the board for six years most recently as Chair. 

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Laura is often found on a trail run, practicing vinyasa yoga, or challenging herself with rock climbing. She constantly improves her culinary skills with trips to farmer’s markets. She loves a good cabin in the mountains but always comes home to the bay area.

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