Grounded in rigor
Open to wonder
WELCOME
Do you feel like something needs to shift, but you’re not sure what or how?
Are you noticing certain experiences or patterns in your life might be holding you back?
Do you find yourself with a ton of insight or awareness but an inability to change?
Therapy can be a place to notice these patterns and begin shifting how you relate to yourself and others.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation
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Hello! I'm Laura. I've been working in mental health for 5 years. My approach is relational and depth-oriented, informed by psychoanalytic thinking, somatic experience 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 -- and I don't hesitate to challenge my clients. I tend to be a good fit for people who are looking for therapy that moves beyond symptom management toward deeper and somatically inclined understanding, integration sense of agency in their lives.
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.
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.
(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
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.
High Achieving Individuals
Explore the internal pressure to perform, achieve, and hold it all together, while considering the drive, the cost, the identity high achievement shapes, and the parts of you that may feel unseen or contingent on success, holding perfectionism, burnout, ambition, and self-worth with nuance, without reducing you to productivity or pathologizing what has helped you survive and excel.
Immigration + Acculturation
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.
Coercive Control
Consider coercive control including intimate partner violence, family control, parent–child dynamics, cultural and religious control, and community or institutional pressures. Attend to how power, dependence, and identity shape what is permissible, and how control can be subtle, normalized, while considering its impact on autonomy, safety, perception, and sense of self.
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:
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