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Laurel van der Toorn

Laurel van der Toorn

LMFT trauma therapist and founder of Laurel Therapy Collective specializing in EMDR therapy for high-achieving professionals and complex trauma.

Aug 19, 2026

2:10
Yeah, so
2:11
I run a boutique trauma-focused private practice primarily in California, but we are all virtual, so we do have a handful of states that we can serve.
2:22
And the all virtual creates a lot of opportunities and also a lot of challenges when it comes to marketing, because when you're not location bound, you end up competing with the big guns for attention online.
2:37
So it's been something I wrestled with.
2:39
We did kind of try out having a small sublet office and ultimately decided it wasn't for us.
2:45
Now, that's a choice I made, and it was mostly around, like, the life that I want to live, the life that my therapists want to live, and where are ideal clients actually willing to go and how they seek out therapy.
2:59
So I have a small group.

19 MINS LATER

22:27
And did you do any like HARO or quoted? Yes, I did.
5:47
how it started out, didn't it? Discovered that, hey, walking around and looking left and right, something's happening in my eye.
5:54
Right.
5:54
Yeah.
5:55
Dr. Francine Shapiro in the 80s.
5:57
She was the one that discovered it.
5:58
She was, I believe, a doctoral student.
6:03
And she was walking through a park in Brooklyn and thinking about something really upsetting and moving her eyes side to side across the sidewalk.

11 MINS LATER

16:54
What is it you want them to understand about EMDR as an option for their healing?

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