Grounded in rigor.
Open to wonder.
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WELCOME
Therapy for adults, couples, and families exploring how relationships, family roles, caregiving, culture, and life transitions shape identity, agency, and connection.
A depth-oriented, relational, and evidence-informed Family Systems Perspective
I’m Laura, a psychotherapist, researcher, and clinical director of a trauma- and PTSD-focused refugee mental health program in Brooklyn. My work is grounded in the belief that therapy is not only about reducing symptoms, but about restoring agency, connection, meaning, and a more trustworthy relationship with oneself.
I work with adults, couples, and families navigating trauma, grief, controlling relationships or high-control systems, caregiving, illness, identity change, and major life transitions. I am especially interested in family therapy and in helping people understand the relational patterns, conflicts, and inherited stories that shape how they understand belonging.
My style is warm, direct, thoughtful, and engaged, with room for humor, play, challenge, and imagination. I tend to be a good fit for people looking for therapy that is reflective, creative, emotionally honest, and grounded in deeper understanding rather than quick fixes.
Someone Who Brings Clinical Depth, Warmth, and Challenge
I work through a psychodynamic and relational lens, with attention to the ways early relationships, family history, culture, loss, adaptation, caregiving roles, and belonging shape the self over time. My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, depth-oriented, direct, and culturally attentive. I draw from trauma therapy, narrative therapy, somatic work, expressive arts, and culturally grounded care, but I don't approach therapy as a script or a protocol. I use these tools to help clients understand patterns, conflicts, defenses, desires, relational roles, and the parts of experience that have been difficult to name.
I believe therapy can move beyond symptom management toward deeper understanding, integration, discernment, and a greater sense of agency. My own experience as a refugee and third culture kid informs my attention to displacement, identity, and the pressures people face to adapt, survive, perform, care for others, or belong.
I see therapy as a collaborative space for understanding the systems and relationships that have shaped your life, while creating room for growth, connection, and change.
(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.
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Trauma + Post-Traumatic Integration
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Grief, Bereavement + Ambiguous Loss
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Control, Coercion + High-Control Systems
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Adult Children of Narcissistic, Emotionally Immature, or High-Control Families
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Cultic, Ideological, Religious + Institutional Influence
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Body, Health + Medical Disruption
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Chronic Illness, Disability, Sleep Disruption + Aging
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Caregiving, Burnout + Overfunctioning
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Attachment, Family Patterns + Repair
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Couples + Families Navigating Control, Illness, Caregiving, Estrangement, or Major Transition
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OCD + Intrusive Thoughts
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Intergenerational Trauma
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Immigration, Acculturation + Belonging
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Life Transitions, Identity Reorganization + Meaning-Making
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High-Achieving Women: Perfectionism, Overfunctioning + Identity After Trauma
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Queer Adults, Couples + Families
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Culturally Affirming Jewish Mental Health
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