Season 2 Episode 14: Resources for Improving Emotional Safety featuring Laurie Belanger

Stuff You Wish You Learned in Grad School with Jennifer Agee, LCPC

Laurie Belanger, LCSW shares how to use science to create felt safety in your office for your clients. Often in grad school, we hear of things like polyvagal theory but are never taught how to use what we know about the brain and body to help our clients regulate and co-regulate.

Laurie M Belanger LCSWR has been providing services to children, adults, and families for over 20yrs in Western NY. She is passionate about serving the needs of families coping with multi-layered, complicated concerns. Laurie has a strong interest and background in trauma, sensory development, chronic pain, adoption, mental health, and neurodiversity. She is an approved EMDR Consultant through EMDRIA, and was professionally trained in TBRI®️ (Trust Based Relational Interventions) by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development.

Laurie currently provides individual and family therapy and professional consultation in her private practice setting in East Amherst NY. She includes access to some of the most up-to-date trauma therapies and supports in her practice. Included in this is The SSP (Safe and Sound Protocol), a Polyvagal informed, evidence-based therapeutic tool designed to reset the nervous system and return it to safety.

OFFERS & HELPFUL LINKS:

• Laurie Belanger website
• Counseling Community TikTok
• Jennifer Agee coaching page
• Destination Continuing Education Facebook community
• Counseling Community Instagram