Dr. Laurie Kaufman, Ph.D. is the founder of Ebb & Flow Mental Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified high school teacher, certified mindfulness educator, part-time faculty member at the University of Rhode Island, and she was a founding faculty member at Middlebridge School.

Laurie has been counseling and teaching children, adolescents, parents, and teachers for over twenty-five years, in public and private elementary, middle, and high schools, universities, outpatient clinics, and community settings. 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.