Therapists and healing practitioners,

Embody your innate capacity to help clients heal.

One of Laura’s celebratory leaps on the Oregon Coast.

Photo credit: Erik Schmidt

Have greater impact with more ease

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Spring 2025 Clinical IFS Pauses for Therapists & Practitioners with active caseloads

Clinical Pauses offer you direct access to Laura’s 27 years of clinical experience and support from a motivated, international clinical community to help you thrive in a Self led, life-giving and sustainable clinical practice!

You are not alone in your clinical challenges and questions. We’ve got you!

Clinical Pauses help you tend to YOUR internal world so that you are better equipped to help clients tend to THEIRS.

What gets in the way of being Self led in session?

Learn to be more effective with greater ease!

Therapy, Supervision, Consultation, Groups, Workshops & Retreats

I help mental health professionals thrive in Self-led, life-giving and sustainable clinical practices.

I’m so glad you’re here. Welcome to our supportive, international circle of healing professionals, where your questions, challenges and milestones are welcome.

My experience for nearly 30 years as a family systems therapist, supervisor and consultant supports you in your exploration of finding more ease, confidence and proficiency in your clinical work.

Therapists deserve to help their clients heal without burning themselves out. I nearly left the field after a decade because my hard-working helper parts were so depleted. Fortunately, I learned how to lead sessions from my Self energy rather than my helping parts. I am more effective and have more energy and passion for my work than ever before.

I learned how to protect my energy in and out of session and I’m passionate about helping therapists prevent burnout and thrive in this sacred and often demanding work.

Hard-working helper parts will relax as they learn to trust your innate, compassionate, wise Self to lead the healing process. Self energy is the most natural and effective resource for healing.

Embody more calm, clarity and spaciousness in session, leaving you more energized and effective.

Doesn’t that sound good?

Laura Schmidt, LMFT
Groups, Workshops, Speaking, Retreats
Family Systems Therapist for 27 years

AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Internal Family Systems Approved Clinical Consultant

  • Workshops, speaking, retreats

    Expand your application and proficiency with IFS and experience this transformational framework directly with Laura.

    Contact us to find out how Laura can support you or your organization.

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  • Online IFS Clinical Groups

    Laura has consulted hundreds of healing professionals from nearly 40 countries in her online consultation groups.

    Increase your clinical skills, confidence and Self leadership.

    Restore your energy for this work and capacity to help your clients with clarity, energy and hope.

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  • Mentoring for Group Leaders

    Do you want to launch and lead your own group but don’t know where to start?

    Or perhaps you’d like some guidance with groups you’re already leading?

    This unique offering gives you Laura’s candid Behind-the-Scenes tips and insights not shared anywhere else.

    Work with the parts this endeavor stirs up and glean practical tips so that your efforts are rewarding!

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  • Individual Therapy, Consultation or Supervision

    **Laura is not accepting new individual clients at this time.

    Work directly with Laura in Individual Therapy for Therapists, IFS-I Approved Consultation or AAMFT Approved Supervision (as a secondary supervisor).

    Get in touch

  • Lissa Rankin, MD | NY Times Bestselling author

    “Laura offered such a genuine, compassionate, respectful, trauma-informed presence to our community,

    adding the level of safety my scared parts were concerned might be hard to achieve on Zoom. Even with so little time to tend to so many people, what a gift to see people’s triggered parts soften, relax, express, and heal right before our very eyes.

    Laura’s IFS facilitation is a treasure to parts that are just desperate to be loved. She is a hope merchant for hopeless parts indeed.”

  • Dr. Rachel Greenberg | Clinical Psychologist, Berkeley, CA @heydrrachel

    “Being led by Laura in her IFS Consultation was like a nurturing reprieve from the day. I felt safe immediately with her and the group space because she fosters a welcoming and warm environment.

    Laura is a gentle leader and obvious expert in IFS and I appreciated the way she grounded the space with meditation, and made sure that everyone’s voice was heard if they needed that. Laura holds the consultative space openly but with reliability and clarity.

    I would strongly recommend Laura to anyone looking for an IFS teacher and leader.

    Being in the IFS consultative space with Laura was incredibly helpful in a short amount of time. Grateful for the experience and the learning.”

About Laura Schmidt

For the first ten years of my career, I assumed that eye to eye, in-person therapist/client sessions were essential for support and healing. My skeptical parts never imagined the role telehealth would eventually play in my work. In 2008, when IFS unexpectedly chose me, I took a leap of faith and began phone therapy across the country with the only IFS therapist I knew at the time, IFS Founder, Dr. Richard Schwartz. I recorded these sessions on cassette tapes and transcribed every one of them to deepen my healing and fluency in the Model. Soon after, remote learning and Zoom meetings became my only option for professional connection after suffering a traumatic injury that kept me home bound for years.

Personal tragedy followed by a global pandemic became the catalyst for me to expand my professional focus to serve the wider IFS community. I’m thrilled and grateful to have developed a vibrant, diverse, international online IFS group consultation community with hundreds of healing professionals, spanning 37 countries and 19 time zones. As a lifelong adventurer and former professional road cyclist, my managers most fully relax and replenish in nature year-round even in remote, challenging conditions. I bring that renewed Self energy, resiliency and clarity to my groups, therapy and teaching and look forward to working with you!

Reconnect with the hope, energy, and purpose you first brought to your practice

Many clinicians feel they're working too hard in sessions, leading to discouragement, self doubt and the looming threat of burnout. The high standards you set for yourself may become more of a burden than a benchmark. If you're struggling with setting boundaries, feeling ineffective or overwhelmed by challenging cases, it’s time for a change.

Working together will increase your skills and Self leadership so your practice is sustained by your presence, clarity and confidence, rather than your hard-working, helping managers. It truly is possible to have more energy and hope now than you did when you first entered the field!

“It was wonderful to have Laura assist me at the Cape Cod Institute. Her expertise was an important ingredient in the success of the week. In addition to being a very strong IFS therapist, Laura is able to teach and supervise IFS clearly and thoroughly. I highly recommend her.”

DR. RICHARD SCHWARTZ, IFS FOUNDER

Laura’s IFS foundation was built in 2008 working individually with Dick. He continues to mentor her as a teacher, colleague and friend.