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Teaching Fields
Systems theory, since 1999, clinical practicum, since 1999, hypnosis, since 2022, ethics and professional issues in clinical practice and the workplace between 1999 and 2010.

Martha Laughlin directs the Marriage and Family Therapy, Master of Science degree at Valdosta State University, where she has been teaching and doing supervision since 1999. She earned a Masters in Social Work from Barry University and later, a Masters and a Ph.D. in Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University. Her interests include the use of creativity and imagination in therapy, Batesonian systems theory, and hypnosis, but her first passion lies in the areas of teaching students to think creatively in family therapy.

Recent Publications

Nguyen, H. N., Millican, J., Patel, K., Laughlin, M., Figueroa, A. (2025, April). Together We Weather the Storm: Faculty as Anchors for Student Resilience. Presentation at the USG Teaching and Learning Conference, Columbus, GA.

Warner, K., Laughlin, M., & Kelley, H. (2025, March). Practicing Curiosity: Helping Students Embrace Uncertainty and Value Difference. Lecture presentation, World Family Therapy Congress, International Family Therapy Association (IFTA), Aberdeen, Scotland

Laughlin, M., Warner, K., & Kelley, H. (2025, March 29). The Disproportionate Woman: Changing Perception through Relational Thinking. Lecture presentation, World Family Therapy Congress, International Family Therapy Association (IFTA), Aberdeen, Scotland.

Laughlin, M. (2025, February 28). Changing the Seemingly Unchangeable: A Case Study. Lecture presentation, Masters Series, MFT Program. Valdosta State University.

Kelley, H., Arrastia-Chisholm, M., Paine, D., Warner, K., Laughlin, M. & Monetti, D. (2024, January). The impact of culturally responsive readingCompleted.s: Hispanic and Latinx academic performance and self-efficacy beliefs. Paper presented at the 9th IAFOR International Conference on Education in Hawaii (IICE2024), Honolulu, HI.