Focused on understanding, not fixing.
welcome. Therapy can be a place to rebuild trust in yourself, your relationships, and your capacity to change.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation
If you’re navigating grief, midlife transition, caregiving stress, stuck relationship patterns, or the sense that you’ve outgrown old ways of being, therapy can be a place to slow down, tell the truth, and move forward with more clarity and choice.
I work with adults, couples, and families. My practice includes a particular focus on queer clients and relationships, alongside work with people across a wide range of identities and life circumstances. I also specialize in OCD and intrusive thoughts, especially when shame or uncertainty has begun to narrow your life. Trauma may be part of your history, and we’ll make room for it in ways that feel steady and workable.
My style is warm, direct, and thoughtful, with room for humor, metaphor, and meaning-making along the way. I’m especially well-suited to people who want to understand themselves more deeply, not just manage symptoms.
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FAMILY Therapy
Family therapy that honors complexity
Family therapy is a space to slow down, notice patterns, and understand how roles and dynamics have taken shape over time. The goal is not blame, but clearer seeing, so that change becomes possible.
I work with adult, intergenerational, and blended families navigating conflict, life transitions, identity questions, and long-standing relational patterns. Our work makes room for honesty, boundary-setting, and repair, even when conversations are tender or difficult. This is thoughtful, structured support for families who want to relate with more clarity, steadiness, and care.
SUPPORT GROUPS
The power of witnessing and being witnessed.
In group, you can share your story while hearing others’ experiences. Through connection and community, real shifts can begin. Together, we notice what’s here and now: how you relate, where you get stuck, what lingers, and how your nervous system responds. You’ll learn from others’ questions, feel validated by shared experience, and grow through real-time dynamics.
We draw on somatic practices, expressive work, and evidence-based tools. But most of the work happens between people, in presence, in reflection, and in those quiet moments when something just clicks.
individual Therapy
Individual therapy for the deeply human work of change
I offer individual therapy grounded in careful attention, curiosity, and lived experience. Our work slows things down so we can notice patterns as they unfold, stay with complicated feelings without rushing to resolve them, and understand how your responses have been shaped over time.
People often come to this work during periods of transition, loss, or internal shift, or when long-standing strategies no longer feel sustainable. Rather than trying to fix or override what is happening, we focus on expanding your capacity to stay present, make sense of your experience, and choose how you want to respond. Over time, this creates change that is steadier, more durable, and more your own.
Couples Therapy
Structured support for connection, repair, and intimacy
I work with couples who feel stuck in familiar patterns, even when care and commitment are present. Often the difficulty is not what you are arguing about, but how quickly interactions escalate or shut down.
Our work slows the process itself. We focus on how conflict unfolds, how each person responds under stress, and what happens in the space between you when things go off track. This creates room for clearer understanding, real repair, and more intentional ways of relating.
This is structured, collaborative work for couples who want more honesty, steadiness, and choice in their relationship, whether that means deepening intimacy or finding a new way forward that fits who you are now.
(SOME) AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
These are some of the experiences I regularly support individuals, couples, and families in navigating, with a focus on clinical care, relational insight, and thoughtful integration.
Midlife Transition + Meaning
Support during periods of identity shift, changing relationships, and reorientation around purpose. This work makes space to reflect, grieve what is ending, and consider what wants to take shape next. The focus is on living in a way that feels more honest, alive, and your own.
Grief + Bereavement
Therapy for grief that honors the depth of love and loss without trying to resolve it too quickly. We make room for the waves as they come, with nervous system awareness, meaning-making, and steady relational support. This is a place where grief does not need to be fixed or pathologized.
OCD + Intrusive Thoughts
Evidence-based, collaborative and structured therapy for intrusive thoughts, compulsions, checking, contamination fears, moral or relationship obsessions, and reassurance loops that shrink your life. We'll build more flexibility and tolerance for uncertainty so that you're no longer ruled by rituals or doubt.
Attachment + Relational Repair
Attachment-focused therapy for individuals, partners, and families seeking more trust, steadiness, and closeness. We notice relational patterns as they arise, work with what sits underneath them, and meaningfully build ways of relating that are more sustainable in real life.
Intergenerational Trauma
Immigration + Acculturation
Exploring how family legacies and inherited pain show up in present-day relationships and choices. We look together at what you have carried, what has shaped you, and what no longer needs to be held in the same way.
This work emphasizes understanding, context, and agency rather than blame.
Support for newcomers and first- or second-generation immigrants navigating belonging, identity, family dynamics, and life across cultures. Therapy offers a space to reflect on intergenerational expectations, cultural tension, and the emotional labor of adaptation and translation.
Queer Adults, Couples, + Families
Affirming therapy for queer adults, couples, and families navigating identity, intimacy, conflict, community, and belonging. This work supports living more openly and coherently in the face of internal and external pressures.
I also work with family members supporting a loved one through coming out or gender transition.
Jewish Mental Health
A space to explore Jewish identity, family legacy, belonging, and the emotional impact of antisemitism. This work holds the complexity of inherited history, intergenerational trauma, cultural memory, and contemporary fear or grief without reducing Jewish experience to a single narrative.
Perinatal + Reproductive
Health SUPPORT
Perinatal mental health is an area of deep expertise for me, and I offer this work selectively for complex transitions involving pregnancy and the postpartum period. This includes grief and loss, birth trauma, identity shifts, and the emotional and relational realities of queer family building.
I specialize in working with queer individuals and couples navigating donor conception, IUI and IVF, reciprocal IVF, surrogacy, pregnancy, and postpartum adjustment. I also support clients experiencing perinatal grief and loss, birth trauma, or relational rupture during pregnancy or after birth, experiences that can profoundly reshape identity, partnership, and a sense of safety in the body and in relationships.
I also offer reproductive mental health support for clients navigating hormonal and reproductive transitions, including PMDD, PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, chronic pelvic pain, perimenopause, and menopause. This work attends not only to symptom management, but to the psychological, relational, and meaning-making dimensions of living in a body shaped by cyclical change, medical intervention, and uncertainty.
Short-term therapy is designed to offer focused, structured support for a specific concern within a defined time frame. This can be a good fit if you want depth with a clear arc, are working toward a particular goal, or want to build skills and momentum without committing to open-ended weekly therapy. This work can stand alone or complement your current longer-term therapy. Click below to learn more:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
hello + thank you for being here
Hello! I’m Laura, a licensed psychotherapist and mental health researcher offering virtual therapy, support groups, consulting, and psychoeducation for individuals, families, couples and professionals alike.
Together, we can explore the balance between structure and instinct, fostering growth, creativity, and the courage to expand.
I bring care, curiosity, and deep responsibility to the people and systems I work with by integrating a variety of therapeutic approaches. I use clinically grounded and mind-body-creative tools including (but not limited to) Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for obsessive-compulsive disorder, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), humor and play, somatic work, Expressive Arts Therapy, community connection, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, Prolonged Exposure (PE), and psychedelic integration.
Our work will focus on deepening your connection to your true self, breaking free from outdated expectations and patterns, and equipping you with the tools to navigate life with play, self-acceptance, and empowerment.
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