MEET LAURA DUBOIS
Life and Career Coach
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This work is for the ones who are done waiting.
Done waiting for the right moment, the right circumstances, or the right amount of certainty before they finally make a move. My clients are high-achieving, success-minded adults who have spent years delivering for everyone else — and who are finally ready to design something for themselves. They're in the middle of a career pivot or a life reinvention, and what they need isn't a pep talk. They need a real partner who can help them get clear, get honest, and get moving.
That's what I do. And I'm particularly good at it because I've done it myself — more than once.
My Story
I built a life that looked solid from the outside. Respected Physical Therapist, management role, proud single mom, homeowner, and newly in love with the man who would become my husband. By every conventional measure, I was succeeding.
But I was also running the whole operation on caffeine, sugar, and sheer will. I was the boss at work and the boss at home, and there was no room in that life to stop, breathe, or ask myself whether it was actually what I wanted. I kept going because stopping felt like failing. And then a cancer diagnosis stopped everything for me.
The 18 months of treatment that followed gave me something I had never given myself: space. Space to think, to rest, and to get honest about the life I had built and the one I actually wanted. What came out of that reckoning wasn't just a career change — it was a fundamental shift in how I understood myself and what I was here to do. I became a certified coach, and I haven't looked back.
What I know now — and what took me a long time to learn — is that the clearest path forward starts with getting honest about where you actually are. I've done that work in every way I know how: through coaching, through training, and through writing. My debut memoir, The Picked Lock, is the product of years of excavating my own story — the parts that were hard to look at, the parts that changed everything, and the parts that finally set me free. Writing it deepened my understanding of myself in ways that continue to shape how I show up for the people I work with.
How I Work
My approach is built on four pillars: Holistic, Empowerment, Alignment, and Design.
Together, they reflect what I believe about real change — that it has to account for all of you. Not just your career goals or your LinkedIn profile, but your values, your energy, your strengths, and the life you're actually trying to build.
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Honesty
I'm direct and transparent, and I expect the same in return. I'll tell you the truth with compassion, and my radar for what's really going on is well-calibrated. We won't waste time dancing around it.
Perspective
I've navigated my own crossroads and reinventions, and that experience helps me see the bigger picture — yours and the broader human landscape we're all navigating. I help you zoom out, make sense of where you are, and move forward with clarity.
Humor
Life is too short to take all of it seriously. I bring levity to the work because sometimes laughter is the fastest way to find the truth.
Social Intelligence
I can read a room quickly, and I know when to push, when to pause, and how to create a space that feels both safe and challenging. You'll be able to stretch here.
Hope
Not the unicorns-and-rainbows kind. The grounded, steady kind — the kind that shows up as powerful questions, expanded possibilities, and a calm belief that you'll get where you need to go.
How My Strengths Serve You
My top Clifton Strengths are Futuristic, Relator, Intellection, Activator, and Maximizer — which means I help you envision a meaningful future, build trust quickly, ask the questions that open new awareness, move you from thinking into action, and spot the potential you might be underselling. Combine that with my training and lived experience, and you get a coach who brings both head and heart, strategy and soul.
Credentials & Training
My roots are in health and wellness. I started as an Exercise Physiologist and Personal Trainer, earned my Master's in Physical Therapy, and spent years as a Licensed PT helping people rebuild from the ground up. I went on to earn board certification as a Health and Wellness Coach through the NBHWC — a credential developed in partnership with the National Board of Medical Examiners — and I hold a Master Transformational Life Coach certification as well.
I'm also a Faculty Instructor for an accredited coaching certification program, where I have the privilege of training the next generation of coaches.
My coaching methodology draws on habit change, transformational coaching, NLP, motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, and nonviolent communication — tools that help you break old patterns, shift your perspective, and move forward with intention.
I know the science of change and the emotional experience of living it. Both matter. And I bring both to every session.