Dr. Laurie Kaufman, Ph.D. is the founder of Ebb & Flow Mental Health. She 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 and is a part-time faculty member at the University of Rhode Island. 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.