About Laura

WELCOME

I am a PhD therapist, relationship trauma expert, and small-town Virginian who has spent the last two decades helping people around the world heal their trauma bonds and attain Post-Traumatic Growth.

"The depths to which the wounded have fallen
is the same distance to which the healed will rise."

Here’s the official recap: I am a licensed trauma counselor who has spread her wings to also become an author, international speaker, and educator. I’ve spent my professional career studying the impacts of attachment traumas and their ultimate influences on (what pop psychology calls) “toxic” relationships in adulthood. Widely recognized for my work that uncovered self-trust as the key ingredient to cultivate for treating trauma bonds, I have taken this message to the masses with my new podcast “Tough Love with Dr. Laura Copley,” and book Loving You is Hurting Me.

After teaching students and overseeing the clinical training program at Penn State, I opened my trauma-informed private practice in Virginia where I also train other counselors how to become relationship trauma specialists. If you are a therapist, coach, or healer interested in training with me, please e-mail me.

Beyond my adventures in therapy, speaking, and training around the world, I return to the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, where I am a mother to a little girl and golden retriever on riverfront farmette overlooking to Blue Ridge Mountains.