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3060 Valencia Avenue Suites 6 and 7
Aptos, CA, 95003
United States
831-460-2550
Laura Kurek, M.A., LMFT
831-460-2550 x15
Email: counseling@laurakurekmft.com
Website: www.laurakurekmft.com
Laura Kurek is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a passion for helping people to improve their relationships with themselves and with each other. Laura has a deep compassion for others, as well as a love of personal and spiritual growth. She also knows firsthand how supportive therapy can be as her own struggles with anxiety have enabled her to experience hope and healing through working with a therapist.
Laura has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Western Seminary. She has extensive training in how to integrate psychology and theology, as well as years of experience supporting kids, teens, adults and families in healing through many different challenges. Over and over again she has seen that people are wired to heal but are often stuck and unable to move forward without support. She is most passionate about helping people tune-in to their own internal experience in order to heal and often utilizes the Internal Family Systems model of therapy in order to assist in this process. Her past experience includes working at a school-based counseling center and a faith-based nonprofit, both located in Sacramento, where she was able to help people of all different ages through a multitude of difficult issues. More recently she worked at the Parents Center, a local nonprofit whose mission is to help Santa Cruz County’s most needy kids and families through providing mental health and parenting support.
Laura is a certified Prepare-Enrich facilitator and loves working with couples to deepen intimacy and improve communication. She also has special expertise in treating anxiety (specifically Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Please visit Laura's website at www.laurakurekmft.com to learn more about how she can help.
Laura, her husband and their two young sons feel so blessed to live in such a beautiful area with so many fun things to do outdoors. When she has free time, Laura loves exploring the redwoods and running on the beach. She and her family attend Faith Community Church.
Donelyn Culver Miller, M.A., M.F.T.
831-460-2550 x3
Donelyn is a co-founder of Relational Resources and has been a licensed Marriage, Family therapist since 1987. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Westmont College and an M.A. in Marriage, Family, Child Counseling from Azusa Pacific University. Donelyn’s career has included working with troubled juveniles and their families, licensing and placing children in Foster homes, directing a low-cost counseling clinic and counseling adults, adolescents and children with a variety of clinical issues. She formerly was a clinical supervisor with Advent Group Ministries, and an adjunct professor with Western seminary, teaching Clinical Foundations and Child and Adolescent Therapy. Donelyn has taught lay counselor training classes in Pleasanton and Santa Cruz, facilitates groups and speaks at retreats and seminars.
Donelyn is now a part of the Relational Resources Alumni Network and still sees clients at her office in Scotts Valley. Donelyn specializes in integrating psychological and spiritual health and also has advanced training in EMDR.
Donelyn and her husband Curt raised their four children in the Santa Cruz mountains and are now also enjoying their son-in-laws and six grandchildren!
Shirley Conly, MA, LMFT
Shirley is a co-founder of Relational Resources and retired from seeing clients in 2022.
Earl E. White, M.A., M.F.T.
Earl is a co-founder of Relational Resources and retired from seeing clients in 2017.