Meet Laura Todd
Laura is known in the local mental health communities of San Diego as an effervescent, multi-passionate, collaborative Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Laura’s professional background includes a range of roles that heavily emphasize supporting those predisposed to disenfranchised grief, structural oppression, chronic stress, and complex traumas.
Embracing an integrative, relational, collaborative support strategy as a counselor allows for Laura’s clients to practice vulnerability, resiliency-building, and corrective experiences in a safe space. These values and skills naturally transfer to fostering meaningful professional relationships, as well.
Laura truly values creating space to dive deeper into case conceptualizations with her fellow therapists, and is especially passionate about supporting others in expanding upon their understanding of themselves, their clients, and the world through clinical work that considers intersectional, sociological and neurobiological layers.
What I Offer
Therapists seeking meaningful connection, shared growth, and a space to stay anchored in integrity and community while navigating the nuances of practice–this is for you.
“I have found that upon empowering others to claim that deeper understanding [of themselves, for themselves, for their clients, and for the world] the outcome is a collective snowball effect of progress toward connection that is more whole, more authentic, and more meaningful.”
Laura intentionally offers alternative frameworks that can challenge or adapt existing, dominant narratives that inform how we assess, diagnose, pathologize, and approach evidence-based practices. By centering and amplifying QBIPOC voices and drawing wisdom from precolonial practices, Laura aims to cultivate & model a more expansive and inclusive understanding of healing.
Expertise
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Deepen your ability to draw on strategies, perspectives, and self-assuredness that empower you to meet challenging clinical moments with competence, nuance, humility, and conviction.
Best suited for therapists looking for grounded, ongoing support that honors intersectional, sociological, and neurobiological ways of understanding trauma’s impact.
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Explore ‘bottom up,’ harms-reduction, and liberation-oriented approaches to enhance traditional therapeutic models that can feel impersonal, narrow, or overly clinical.
Ideal for therapists seeking guidance around case formulation, interventions, and challenges as they arise within client work, with gentle invitations to reflect on the therapist's own role as it directly relates to clinical dynamics.
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A safe space to build confidence & competence in working with “taboo” topics in the therapy room - sex, infidelity, nonmonogamy, kink, crime, money, politics, body size bias, etc. - without fear of losing your cool within your own preoccupation, reactions, judgments, or beliefs.
For therapists ready to expand beyond symptom-focused models and into more transformative, embodied practice—both within and outside the walls of the therapy room.
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Step into a space designed for radical authenticity, where your identity as a therapist can be explored without performance or pretense. Learn how to channel your authority, positionality, and privilege in ways that align with your values, shaping a therapeutic identity and style that feel both genuine and impactful—so you can inspire clients through realness, congruence, and integrity.
Best for clinicians ready to explore how who they are shapes how they practice - and how that practice, in turn, shapes their world.
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Learn to intentionally & collaboratively lay the groundwork for creating a sturdy foundation in which to welcome clients that want more than symptom management. Lean into the experience of facilitating process-oriented healing work that bolsters trust, retention, & commitment.
Why I do this work
Laura values her role as a teacher, mentor, and guide, and is energized by every opportunity to expand her collaborative network to include those who yearn to move beyond textbook strategies into more inspired, connected, and relational ways of practicing.
Laura helps professionals discover new ways of understanding themselves, their clients, and the systems we all navigate by integrating intersectional, trauma-informed, sociological, and neurobiological knowledge into how we connect - human to human.
Laura’s vision is and always has been a collective one: to foster learning, growing, and connecting in a way that moves our field - and the communities we serve - toward a more equitable, authentic, and compassionate tomorrow..
Laura’s Core Principles of Effective Practice
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At the center of Laura’s practice is the understanding that human connection is one of the most valuable assets when it comes to meaningful healing, learning and growing. Interventions can only go as far as the trust in the room allows, and trust is best cultivated by authenticity & congruence in word, action, and presence.
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We can only meet our clients as deeply as we have met ourselves. Therapy as a healing modality, especially within existing structures, requires both personal exploration and collective accountability. Once able to align your therapeutic style with your deepest values, watch as you inspire through authenticity rather than relying on distant, formulaic strategies. Laura calls this: ‘walking the walk.’
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Relinquishing the shame-inducing narratives & models that rely on perfection and rigid structures in order to convey professionalism or mastery. Instead, learning to embrace compassionate curiosity as the map towards richer understanding allows for a greater ability to expand into territory that may otherwise feel beyond our reach or out of our usual comfort zones.
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Laura believes that the weaving of the fabric of our beings - our beliefs, emotions, histories, ancestries, relationships, wants, wishes & losses - cannot be adequately addressed by one-size-fits-all, surface-level approaches. To allow for a healing space that is imperfect, dynamic, multidimensional and ever-evolving is to more accurately mirror the dynamics that comprise the human experience.
Laura’s Identity Integration Full Assessment
An original model by Laura Todd, LPCC: Therapeutic Identity Integration Assessment™ - a guide to weaving your whole self into how you live, work, understand, and connect.
I created the Therapeutic Identity Integration Assessment Model™ as a way to illuminate how the many parts of who we are - personal, cultural, professional, and relational - intersect and inform the way we move through the world. Rather than seeing identity as fixed or fragmented, this model views integration as a continuous process of weaving together what feels authentic, sustainable, and true.
The framework is designed to surface both strengths and growing edges. It provides a structure for reflection while leaving room for nuance, complexity, and lived experience. In naming the layers of identity that often go unnamed, it helps individuals locate themselves, honor contradictions, and recognize the wisdom embedded in their own story.
The goal is not to arrive at a single “final” identity or to put clients into a new kind of box, but to cultivate an ongoing practice & understanding of integration. My hope is that this assessment encourages people across professions and communities to step more fully into their work, relationships, and lives with congruence, resilience, and depth.
Integration is not about becoming someone new—it’s about becoming more fully yourself. The Identity Integration Assessment™ invites you to begin, or continue, that journey.
The Therapeutic Identity Integration Assessment™ was created by Laura Todd, LPCC. All rights reserved.
Who’s the best fit for consultations with Laura?
Therapists focused on complex, process-oriented trauma work & those open to exploring harms-reduction, anti-oppressive, and deconstructive approaches
Therapists hoping to build confidence & demystify “taboo” topics in the therapy room - sex, infidelity, nonmonogamy, kink, crime, money, politics, body size bias
You feel lonely, detached or isolated in your practices
White clinicians seeking a non-performative space for radical identity development, looking to harness the authority, positionality, & privilege in their therapy chair for good
Those battling imposter syndrome
You’ve noticed the ways your own pain resurfaces in the work—and want a place to explore that safely
Those craving depth, nuance, and soul in their work
Those disillusioned with traditional consultation models that feel impersonal or overly clinical
Testimonials
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"Laura Todd is an invaluable asset for any clinician or team seeking to deepen their trauma-informed practice. Her collaborative, curiosity-driven methods inspire professional growth, help unlearn biases, and build trust. Having witnessed her proactive dedication to professional growth firsthand, I can say with confidence that Laura’s ability to foster communities of practice will elevate the healing capacity and is, without reservation, one of the most gifted and insightful trauma therapists in the field. "
Dr. Shilpi Sheth, PsyD., Regional Director of Clinical Services for Rite of Passage
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“I highly recommend Laura to anyone seeking clinical consultation. She truly goes above and beyond to support, whether that is to seek out learning opportunities, challenge the systems that continue to harm, or simply focus on providing a warm, safe space to explore. Laura has shown me time and time again how to remain curious, intentional, and flexible, valuing the therapeutic space to be its own living, breathing entity.”
Elle Jones, LPCC, The Thriving Initiative, Sirona Healing, & Owner of Aurorean Therapy Practice
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“Laura cares deeply about the work she does with clients and is equally invested in supporting the growth of other clinicians. In our consultation space, she approached every discussion with curiosity and a rich knowledge of systems of oppression, culture, and the many ways these forces impact clients’ lives. Her combination of clinical skill, depth of insight, and commitment to anti-oppressive, liberation-focused work makes her a truly exceptional resource for consultation.”
Gissell Rodriguez, LMFT, Private Practice Owner: GissellRodriguezLMFT.com
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Client-Centered Focus
Support for those navigating their clinical journey, one client at a time. Best for therapists seeking steady, grounded support in clinical work without diving too deep into the self as therapist (yet).
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Therapist as the Tool
Deepen your understanding of your work while deepening your understanding of yourself and the world. Best for clinicians ready to explore how who they are shapes how they practice—and how that practice, in turn, shapes their world.
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Collective Practice & Community Care
Healing work is deeper when we don’t do it alone. Best for therapists seeking meaningful connection, shared growth, and a space to stay anchored in integrity and community while navigating the nuances of practice.
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Group Consultations
For those ready to be a part of a community that helps each other in building strategies, perspectives, and assuredness needed to approach more challenging clinical & business scenarios with confidence, support, and conviction.