Ashley Graber & Laurie Cousins

Teaches at Center for Mindful Living

Ashley Graber feels passionately about helping you or your family member to become the best person they can be. She believes everyone is entitled to happiness and well-being. She will help you, or your loved ones, to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving that happiness and well-being. Through a supportive and empathic therapeutic relationship she will meet you where you are at and work collaboratively with you to make the changes you want to make.

​Ashley combines mindfulness practices with traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral techniques in her work with adults and adolescents, families, and groups. Her areas of experience include: addiction and relapse prevention, trauma related issues, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, self esteem issues and stress reduction techniques.

​Ashley is a grief specialist, trained in Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Connecting Adolescents to Learning Mindfulness (CALM). She is passionate about teaching mindfulness and meditation and offers these techniques to any client interested in learning and/or practicing them.

Laurie Cousins has a B.A. in Psychology, is trained through Inner Kids mindfulness program, and is mentored by the founder Susan Kaiser-Greenland. Laurie brings mindful awareness practices into education in a secular way by teaching the ABC’s of Mindfulness to children, teens, teachers, and administrators in K-12 public and private schools. Also, Laurie is the creator, director and lead teacher of the Unplug Kids & Teens program at Unplug Meditation studio in Los Angeles.

As a Family Mindfulness Practitioner, Laurie provides effective strategies and support for families dealing with attentional, behavioral and emotional challenges, while cultivating a more connected and peaceful home. She creates a customized system of practices and other interventions for each family that best serves their unique needs, circumstances, and preferences.

Laurie is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator and Teacher for UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is currently working at UCLA as a Research Associate, facilitating Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy groups for young people through the Child & Adolescent Mood Disorders program.