A Therapist Who Has Navigated Real Change

Some therapists understand resilience from textbooks. Laura Landis, MA, LPC, CCTP understands it from experience. Over more than three decades in clinical practice, Laura has worked in emergency psychiatric settings, partial hospitalization programs, community mental health, EAP counseling, and private practice. She has treated adjudicated youth, managed Medicaid utilization review, built and directed her own agency, and then stepped away from it all in 2015 to sail solo between Nova Scotia and the Florida Keys. When she returned to practice in 2023, she brought with her something most therapists do not have: proof that transformation is possible, because she has lived it.

Laura currently sees clients at Axis Integrated Mental Health in Boulder County and provides telehealth services across Colorado. She specializes in treating depression, complex trauma, and medication-resistant depression using an integrated approach that draws on EMDR, the Flash Technique, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Therapy, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.

What Makes Laura Different: Why Treating Depression Requires More Than One Tool

Most people who come to Laura for depression therapy have already tried something. Maybe medication helped for a while and then stopped working. Maybe talk therapy helped them understand their patterns but did not change how they feel. Laura’s approach is built around a core clinical insight: depression rarely has a single cause, and it rarely responds to a single treatment.

Laura holds certification in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and advanced training in the Flash Technique, a rapid EMDR-adjacent intervention that reduces the distress typically associated with trauma reprocessing. She integrates Polyvagal Theory to help clients understand how their nervous system has learned to protect them, and uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) to address the internal parts that carry shame, fear, or grief.

What this means in practice: Laura does not apply a fixed protocol to every person. She listens first. She helps you make sense of what happened to you. Then she works with you to choose the tools that match where you are right now.

Clinical Approach: Integrated, Body-Informed, and Evidence-Based

Laura’s clinical framework begins with the nervous system. Rooted in Polyvagal Theory and trauma-informed care, she works to help clients move out of survival states and into the ventral vagal zone where real change becomes possible. This is not metaphor. It is grounded in the neuroscience of how the brain and body respond to chronic stress, early adversity, and relational wounds.

Her primary treatment modalities for depression therapy include:

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), including the Flash Technique for trauma reprocessing with reduced distress
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) for working with self-critical internal voices and protective parts
• Polyvagal-Informed Therapy and Felt-Sense Focusing for body-based emotional processing
• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (certification) for medication-resistant depression
• Somatic and neuro-psychotherapy (NPT-C certified) approaches
• Motivational Interviewing and recovery-oriented care for co-occurring substance use

Laura also holds dual certification as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP x2) and has advanced training in neurodiversity, gender-affirming care, reproductive mental health, and couples counseling. She is an ASCH-certified hypnotherapist at the Level 1 credential.

Who Laura Helps

Laura works with adults navigating depression that has not fully responded to medication, trauma survivors who are ready to process painful experiences without being overwhelmed, and people in life transitions who need a steady, skilled clinician by their side. She has particular expertise working with:

• Adults with treatment-resistant depression or complex trauma histories
• LGBTQ+ individuals seeking affirming, knowledgeable care from a therapist with lived experience
• People in addiction recovery who also carry depression or unresolved trauma
• Adults navigating grief, identity transitions, or significant life changes
• Clients who have tried other therapeutic approaches and are ready for something more integrated

Laura does not specialize in a single presenting problem. She specializes in the whole person.

Background and Credentials

Laura holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Antioch/New England Graduate School and a BS in Environmental Science from Keene State College. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP, dual certification), and holds advanced credentials in Neuro-Psychotherapy (NPT-C), Polyvagal Therapy, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.

Her career spans more than 35 years of direct clinical work across emergency psychiatry, partial hospitalization, community mental health, utilization management, EAP services, developmental disability administration, and outpatient therapy. Most recently, she helped build and launch a Partial Hospital Program for young adults at Sandstone Care in Broomfield before joining Axis Integrated Mental Health in Louisville.

She has also completed substantial training in gender-affirming care, autism spectrum and gender dysphoria, reproductive mental health, and the neuroscience of complex trauma.

Why Laura Chose This Work

Laura did not come to mental health in a straight line. She spent years as a pharmaceutical research chemist before choosing, at 31, to sell her home and return to graduate school for counseling psychology. That decision was not just professional. It was personal. She had already begun to understand that understanding people mattered more to her than analyzing compounds.

Over the following decades, she navigated her own profound personal transformation, which she describes as making a difficult crossing to a far shore and finding a life that fits. That experience shapes the way she sits with her clients. She knows from the inside that change is hard and that it is real.

Laura is also in active recovery, which informs her approach to clients who carry both depression and substance use histories. She meets people where they are, without judgment.

Start Depression Therapy in Louisville or Boulder Today

Laura is currently accepting new clients at Axis Integrated Mental Health in Louisville, Colorado. Telehealth appointments are available throughout Colorado. To schedule a free consultation or book your first appointment, contact Axis Integrated Mental Health at axismh.com or call our intake line directly.

Most major insurance plans are accepted. Our intake team will confirm your coverage before your first appointment.