LAUREL STARKWEATHER, LPC 

Laurel provides counseling services to individuals, couples, and families. She specializes in working with relationship issues, anxiety, depression, body image, life transitions, and parenting. She is trained in EMDR and ART- Accelerated Resolution Therapy for working through trauma.  Her work with couples focuses on strengthening communication, managing conflict, and increasing intimacy. She is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy and is Gottman Level 2 trained for couples. Laurel’s style is warm, genuine and solution oriented. “I strive to create a compassionate environment to explore, empower, heal, and support healthier thoughts, attitudes, and choices.” Laurel is a also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Associate supervised by Tabitha Westbrook, LPC-S, LMFT-S.

laurel@familycounselingplace.com

DAN ANDERSON, LCSW

Dan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with individuals and couples. He helps people learn to control their emotions, thoughts, and unwanted behaviors. Dan particularly focuses on the treatment of survivors of trauma, their partners and loved ones, sexual addictions, serious mental health conditions, suicidal thinking or behaviors, substance abuse, life transitions, emotional distress, and adjustment to disability. Dan also enjoys assisting people to release emotional hurts and resentment, as well as manage excessive anger.

dan@familycounselingplace.com

GALE HARTSCHUH, LMFT-S, LPC-S

Gale holds a Master’s degree in Family Therapy and especially enjoys working with couples struggling with communication and intimacy issues, as well as parenting and discipline techniques. Gale also enjoys helping individuals who are working on assertiveness skills, healthy boundaries, codependency, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, or grief. Gale is also a trained facilitator for the highly acclaimed series called “Parenting with Love and Logic.”

gale@familycounselingplace.com