Our Services
We work with you in a warm, gentle, and collaborative relationship to foster healing, self-understanding, and growth. Many clients use psychotherapy as a safe space to better understand themselves and explore how historical experiences continue to shape present-day behaviours, emotions, and relationships.
At Laura Murton Psychotherapy, we provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy for:
trauma and difficult past experiences
anxiety and emotional distress
relationship challenges
emotional overwhelm and feeling stuck
self-understanding and self-compassion
navigating patterns that no longer serve you
We work collaboratively with you to create a therapeutic approach tailored to your individual needs and goals, drawing from evidence-based therapies such as EMDR and other approaches that support healing, resilience, and growth.
Many clients consider therapy an important part of their self-care practice. We witness our clients developing greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and acceptance while strengthening their ability to connect with others in more meaningful and satisfying ways.
We believe the relationship between therapist and client is an essential part of meaningful and lasting change. Our team engages in ongoing professional development to ensure we continue offering thoughtful, current, and evidence-based care in a supportive environment.
Therapy Options in Ottawa
We offer therapy sessions in cozy offices located in Hintonburg, Old Ottawa South, and Centretown, as well as online across Ontario. Evening and weekday appointments are available.
Meet the team
Laura Murton, M.Ed., Registered Psychotherapist
Practicing psychotherapy is my lifelong dream, and I’ve had the privilege of working in this field for the last 11 years. My approach is Humanistic, and embodies a Narrative therapeutic stance of genuine curiosity, collaboration, and transparency. I integrate techniques from Attachment Theory, Self-Compassion Therapy, somatic-oriented, and neurobiological approaches, and I use Eye Movement Desensitization and Re-processing (EMDR), Brainspotting, and Reconsolidation Therapy to heal trauma. I work with adult male, female, LGBTQ2, healthcare providers, veterans, and First Responders. I provide clinical supervision to Psychotherapy Master’s students and therapists.
**Not currently accepting new clients, except for Reconsolidation Therapy and for supervision
Anna Seifried, M. A., MPH, Registered Psychotherapist
I specialize in serving individuals who are sensitive or creative and have been described as “deep” or “gifted”. I also serve healthcare workers and first responders. I offer short-term individual psychotherapy for symptom relief for anxiety, depression and burnout. I also offer long-term psychotherapy oriented at coping with emotional intensity and insecure attachment styles, soothing insecure attachment styles, treating burnout or moral injury, providing a safe place to express and feel your emotions, tapping into your unique gifts, strengths and values, getting out of your head to find calm and safety, helping you leave the past behind, increasing self-acceptance and self-compassion, transforming self-defeating patterns, and tending to grief.
I offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and an integrative approach that uses on psychodynamic therapy, parts work (Internal Family Systems), somatic therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Mindful Self-Compassion Therapy.
Susan Alexander, M. A.,
Registered Psychotherapist
Now accepting new clients in-person or virtual.
Maybe you’ve been thinking about therapy but aren’t sure it will help. You’re an ambitious overthinker, navigating life transitions, relationship challenges, or health issues, and lately, everything feels overwhelming. I work with single parents, students, caregivers, and those ready to move past self-doubt and take meaningful steps forward. Using an integrative approach — Brainspotting, CBT, psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, somatics, and self-compassion — we’ll quiet the noise, shift unhelpful patterns, and help you reconnect with what truly matters. You already have what you need; let’s unlock it together.