Grounded in rigor
Open to wonder
Welcome.
Therapy can be a place to restore trust in yourself and in relationships, while holding complexity as meaning begins to emerge.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation
I work with adults, couples, and families across a wide range of identities and life circumstances. My practice is queer-affirming and grounded in respect for diverse identities, family structures, and ways of living. Many people come to therapy at meaningful crossroads, facing questions about relationship, identity, direction, or how to live more authentically within complexity. Our work creates space to think and feel together, with attention to the emotional and relational patterns that shape experience over time.
My approach is relational and depth-oriented, informed by psychoanalytic thinking and expressive arts traditions. Alongside conversation, we may draw on metaphor, imagination, story, or creative expression when it helps something become more visible or understandable. My style is warm, direct, and thoughtful, with room for humor and play. I tend to be a good fit for people who are looking for therapy that moves beyond symptom management toward deeper understanding, integration, and a stronger sense of agency in their lives.
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FAMILY Therapy
Family therapy that honors complexity
Family therapy creates space to slow down, notice patterns, and understand how roles and dynamics have taken shape over time. The aim 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. Together we explore how each person’s experience fits within the wider family story.
Our work allows room for honesty, boundary-setting, and repair, even when conversations are tender or difficult. At times we may also use metaphor or other expressive ways of reflecting on family experience when it helps something become clearer. 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 begin. Together we notice what is happening in the room: how you relate, where you get stuck, what lingers, and how your nervous system responds.
Groups draw on somatic awareness, expressive practices, and thoughtful reflection. Often the most meaningful work happens between people, in presence, in dialogue, and in those moments when something suddenly becomes clearer through the shared experience of the group.
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 therapy during periods of transition, loss, or internal shift, or when long-standing ways of coping no longer feel sustainable. Together we make space to reflect, feel, and think more clearly about what is happening.
At times we may draw on metaphor, imagination, or other expressive ways of exploring experience when words alone feel limited. Over time, this work helps expand your capacity to stay present with your life, make meaning from experience, and respond with greater freedom and intention.
Couples Therapy
Support for connection, repair, and intimacy
I work with couples who feel caught 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 look closely at 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.
The work is structured and collaborative, with attention to emotional patterns, communication, and the deeper meanings that shape the relationship. At times we may also use metaphor, story, or other expressive ways of exploring experience when words alone feel too narrow.
Together we focus on building steadiness, honesty, and the possibility of renewed connection, or finding a thoughtful 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:
hello + thank you for being here
Hello. I’m Laura, a licensed psychotherapist, mental health researcher, and community mental health organizer offering therapy, consultation, and psychoeducation for adults, couples, families, and professionals.
My work is relational, depth-oriented, and expressive. I am interested in how identity forms and reforms over time, especially in moments of transition, rupture, grief, relational injury, or expansion. I am trained in trauma therapy, so every session ensures a trauma-informed approach. I approach therapy as a process of integration rather than correction.
Therapy with me is not about quick fixes or symptom management alone. It is about meaning-making. It is about understanding how you learned to survive, how certain patterns once protected you, and how those same patterns may now feel constricting.
I work from an expressive and somatically informed orientation, incorporating imagination, metaphor, creative inquiry, and careful attention to the body’s responses. Some experiences cannot be accessed through language alone. We make space for what emerges indirectly, symbolically, and relationally.
I am attentive to dynamics of power and constraint in relationships, including experiences of coercive control, chronic self-doubt, and subtle relational invalidation that can reshape a person’s sense of reality over time. Together, we look at not only what happened, but how it reorganized your inner world.
Our work moves at a thoughtful pace. We explore ambivalence rather than rush it. We hold complexity without forcing resolution.
The goal is not a better you. It is a more integrated and honest one.
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