My name is Laura and I have been a counsellor at FCSS since 2017. As a counsellor with Family and Community Support Services, I work towards helping individuals, couples and families to more successfully journey through life hopes, challenges, experiences and transitions. Committed to the principles of self determination, self efficacy, and a fundamental belief in the innate worth and dignity of all persons, I use a strength’s based, short-term goal directed counselling approach to help clients grow and guide themselves down their chosen and preferred pathways. In working with couples and families, I use Positive, Mindfulness and CBT, the Gottman’s 10 Principles for Effective Couples Therapy approach and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, and Strength Based Activity-based approaches.