In the service of the relationship.

Laurie Conaty has been doing one thing for thirty years: finding what’s actually wrong and closing the loop on what to do about it.

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Whether she’s working with a couple on the brink, a room of clinicians in Oklahoma, or a legal team needing expert testimony, the move is the same. She names what is actually happening in the room. She reflects it back with curiosity, not confrontation. And she closes the loop — every single time — so that the person in front of her leaves with something to do, not just something to think about.

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She grew up as the objective bystander in her own family, the one who could see clearly what each parent could not or would not name about themselves. Before she ever had a license, she was already doing this work. Her family was, in her own words, her incubator.

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She earned her master’s degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, became one of the first MINT-certified trainers in the country, and spent the next three decades building a practice that runs on results rather than process. She co-authored national clinical practice standards. She built state contracts with behavioral health agencies and court systems. She trained hundreds of clinicians, not in the theory version of MI, but the version that actually changes what happens in the room.

 

She is also the last therapist you will need for this particular problem. That is not a promise of overnight transformation. It is a commitment to getting to the bottom line, giving you something real to work with, and sending you back out to live your life.​ She will not waste your time.