Grounded in rigor.
Open to wonder.
HI +
WELCOME
Someone Who Brings Clinical Depth, Warmth, and Challenge
I’m Laura. I’ve been working in mental health for seven years, and I am also a researcher and the Clinical Director of a trauma- and PTSD-focused program for refugees of war based in Brooklyn. I designed the program around evidence-informed, community-based care that supports recovery after trauma by reducing isolation, strengthening connection, and addressing the conditions people need in order to heal. Groups, storytelling, resilience, joy, awe, and wonder are central to this work, along with a focus on prevention, integration, repair, and posttraumatic growth.
My style is warm, direct, and thoughtful, with room for humor, play, and challenge. I tend to be a good fit for people who are looking for therapy that is reflective, relational, creative, and grounded in the belief that healing happens through connection, meaning-making, and the gradual return of agency.
Therapy for Deeper Understanding, Repair, and Connection
A Relational, Creative, and Evidence-Based Approach to Healing
My practice is relational and depth-oriented, informed by psychoanalytic practice, evidence-based trauma approaches, narrative therapy, expressive arts traditions, and culturally grounded care. I believe therapy can move beyond symptom management toward deeper understanding, integration, repair, and a greater sense of agency.
Many of the experiences that bring people to therapy interrupt connection, trust, safety, and the ability to feel recognized by ourselves or others. Therapy, groups, and community can all be parts of the work of repair. This means making room for what has felt fragmented, shameful, unspeakable, or too much, while also creating space for humor, play, imagination, awe, wonder, mutuality, nature, warmth, and shared experience, so aliveness can be remembered, embodied, and practiced again.
In therapy, I use storytelling, metaphor, creativity, expressive arts, and somatic awareness to help bring shape and language to what has been hard to name.
(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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OCD + Intrusive Thoughts
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Attachment, Relational Patterns + Repair
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Intergenerational Trauma
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Immigration, Acculturation + Identity
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Life Transitions, Identity Reorganization + Aging
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High-Achieving Women (Perfectionism, Overfunctioning + Identity After Trauma)
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Coercive Control, High-Control Systems + Ideological Influence
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Queer Adults, Couples + Families
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Queer Perinatal + Family-Building + Third-Party Reproduction Evaluations (IVF, surrogacy, donor conception)
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Culturally Affirming Jewish Mental Health
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