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Gwen Laws-Clawson, LCMHC

Therapist

Gwen holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Music Education and a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling, from a National Board for Certified Counselors-accredited university. She has experience with a variety of clients in multiple clinical settings. Gwen was previously a Domestic Violence Treatment Program Director and a Clinical Director at Atlas Therapeutic Services and has worked in private practice at the Juracan Center and Gwen Laws, LLC. She has served as the chair for the Utah County Domestic Violence Coalition, where she has helped victims, perpetrators, and their families find healing. She has worked for the Utah Department of Child and Family Services in family preservation counseling as well as for the Department of Corrections at the Utah State Prison in the Excell program, a residential substance abuse treatment program for female inmates. Gwen has also held an affiliate provider certification for the Network on Juveniles Offending Sexually (NOJOS) and for the Utah Department of Corrections Sex Offender Task Force. Prior to becoming a Mental Health Counselor, Gwen held a Utah Educator license with a secondary music endorsement. While teaching in the public school system, she worked with at-risk youth and youth in custody at the Lighthouse Learning Center alternative high school. As an experienced Clinical Mental Health Counselor, it is her goal to provide a safe, comfortable, open-minded environment in which students feel free to express themselves and to reframe and integrate their experiences in ways that encourage well-being, self-worth, healing, and hope.

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Gwen Laws-Clawson