Laura’s Current Offerings

Promotional image for a 1-hour Clinical IFS Pause with Laura Schmidt, LMFT, featuring details about sessions on March 17 and March 19, 4 pm PT. The session on March 18 is marked as full. Laura Schmidt is described as a Family Systems Therapist, Approved IFS Consultant, and AAMFT Supervisor. Includes a website link: pausewithlaura.com.

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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!

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

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Testimonials

  • “Very grateful to have gotten into a group consultation with you, Laura. The safety, vulnerability, and warmth that you facilitate, in addition to your expertise, have absolutely allowed me to relax and allow my Self energy to lead myself both personally and professionally!”

    --PS, Registered Psychologist practicing in Alberta, Canada

  • “Laura is warm, open, gentle and committed to encouraging you in your practice. She offers the wisdom of her experience of IFS therapy as well as inviting this from us. She sensitively facilitates you to consider your inner process.”

    Melanie | (UK) BACP ACC Psychotherapeutic Counsellor Level 3 IFS

  • "Laura puts her heart and soul into her trainings. Her dedication to living, learning and helping others incorporate IFS into their lives is truly inspiring. Her compassion and intellect are cornerstones in her practice and trainings. She brings IFS to life through experiential processes that have really helped me personally and professionally."

    Lucy A. DePaolo, LICSW

  • “Being able to discuss challenging cases was so helpful! Additionally, witnessing Laura work one-on-one with other members of the group was very powerful and informative.”

    Tiffany Forsyth, Spokane

  • “I feel as if I am not practicing alone. I am the only IFS therapist at the mental health agency where I work at this time. It helps to feel supported by other IFS practitioners. Laura’s way of leading is so very supportive and I can feel her very accepting and warm self-energy.”

    Colleen Olin, LMHC, Washington State

  • “I wanted to express my appreciation for Laura Schmidt’s presence and role in assisting Dr. Schwartz. I had a personal session with Laura and, to me, that experience not only tied together the different “parts” of the training but also allowed me to personally benefit in a profound way and see first-hand how it could benefit my patients. Her warmth, grace and professionalism, as well as her superior knowledge of IFS, fostered a more comprehensive and wholesome training. Truly, it would not have been the same without her.”

    DK, LCSW - Cape Cod Institute

  • "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."

    Dr. Rachel Greenberg | Clinical Psychologist - Berkeley, CA

  • "Laura’s calm and compassionate presence creates an atmosphere of safety for deep healing. Her grasp of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model comes from an inner knowing stemming from her own inner work. In addition to being a skilled IFS therapist, she teaches the Model from the heart and with passion. I have great confidence in recommending her."

    Michelle Glass, Eugene, OR | Certified IFS Practitioner & Author of Daily Parts Meditation Practice©

  • “Observing, as well as taking part in case consultations (gave me) an increased understanding and appreciation for the importance of attending to and understanding of the crucial impact that therapists’ parts can have. I knew to attend to my own parts, but this experience took it to another level.”

    Anna Liedberg Miron, MA,LPC, Kalamazoo, MI

  • "I attended today’s Group Parts Befriending. It was so good to be deepening into parts work in a group. Thank you so much for offering it. It was validating, moving and helpful to hear others’ experiences, your comments and witness a brief guided piece of work. Thank you!"

    DN - Oakland, CA

  • "Laura’s depth of IFS embodied knowledge provided context and content, both in how she identified the stages of process during demos, as well as in my own individual IFS session."

    Jane Probst, LCSW