Laura Philpott LLC
Evidence-Based Trauma Therapy | Telehealth | Washington State
About Laura Philpott LLC
Everyone thinks you have it together. You’ve built a life that works — and something underneath it is quietly eroding.
That’s who I work with.
I’m Laura Philpott, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (Washington State) with a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and Addiction. My background includes work on VA PTSD clinical teams, with sexual assault survivors, and on substance abuse treatment teams — rooms where people were carrying some of the heaviest things a person can carry. I came to this work because I understood, early and deeply, that what we’ve been through changes the way we experience ourselves and the world. And I believed then, as I do now, that being genuinely seen by another person is both the thing people most need and the thing they most fear.
I am not a soft therapist. I will tell you that you’re doing great when it’s true — and only then. What I offer is a clear-eyed look at what you’ve been carrying, why you’ve been carrying it, and what it’s actually costing you. I don’t flinch at hard stories. I don’t pretend the answers are simple. And I won’t let you use the language of healing to stay stuck.
I came to this work the long way. As a first-generation college graduate and single mom, I earned both my degrees while building the kind of life I write and talk about — functioning well on the outside, doing the harder work underneath. I’ve moved across the country and across the world. I’ve been through loss that didn’t come with a clean name and crises that asked everything of me. I’m not working from theory. I’m working from having been there — and from still doing my own work.
My clients are high-functioning people — leaders, professionals, parents, caretakers, veterans — who are good at showing up for everyone else and are finally ready to ask what it’s costing them. They are done choosing the harder path just because they know how to survive it.
If you’re looking for gentle affirmations, there are many therapists who will offer you that. If you’re ready for someone who will tell you the harder truth — you’re in the right place.
Telehealth only. Licensed in Washington State. Private pay.
Laura Philpott | CPT, PE, EMDR, WET, MI
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Services
Trauma Therapy
for people carrying the weight of what they’ve been through and ready to do something about it
Sexual Trauma
for survivors who are done carrying something they were never meant to carry alone, whether it happened in a civilian context or inside a relationship or institution that was supposed to be safe
Military Sexual Trauma
for survivors navigating not just what happened, but what the institution did — or didn’t do — the institutional betrayal is real
Moral Injury
for those whose sense of right and wrong was violated by something they did, witnessed, or couldn’t stop
Substance Use & Trauma
for people who recognize that what they’ve been using to cope is connected to something deeper
Life Transitions & Identity
for those in the middle of a major shift who aren’t sure who they are on the other side of it
Free 15-Minute Consultation
to see if we’re the right fit before you commit to anything