Dr. Laurie Kaufman, Ph.D. is the founder of Ebb & Flow Mental Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified high school teacher, and certified mindfulness educator who has spent nearly the last thirty years working with children, teenagers, and adults on managing the stresses of everyday life with kindness, curiosity, and humor.

Laurie was a founding faculty member at Middlebridge School. She is a part-time faculty member at the University of Rhode Island and serves on the Rhode Island Special Education Advisory Committee. At Ebb & Flow Mental Health, she sees individual clients, works with families, facilitates groups, and speaks and consults to schools and other organizations. She specializes in cognitive-behavioral and mind-body approaches for anxiety, depression, stress management, parenting, and social and academic success, for all ethnicities, races, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities. She lives in Rhode Island, where she and her partner currently parent four teenagers.