Learn About Me
Hello! Thank you for checking out my work. I’m Laura she/her.
I work as a licensed psychotherapist and clinical researcher offering virtual therapy, support groups, and consulting to individuals and professionals. I deeply value the therapeutic alliance and consider it a privilege to work together. Please read below for a bit more on my work and approaches.
My approach integrates a variety of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), somatic work, psychedelic integration, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and expressive arts therapy. These approaches are tailored to each individual’s unique needs.I specialize in 2SLGBTQIA+ mental health, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), reproductive and perinatal mental health, and neurodivergence. With a blend of humor, compassion, and traditional therapeutic techniques, I offer trauma-informed care that focuses on empowerment, self-acceptance, and exploring the balance between structure and instinct. Together, we will foster growth, creativity, and the courage to live, play, rest, and dream as you deserve to.
I’m a therapist with advanced training in EMDR, somatic therapy, and relational approaches. My work is grounded in a deep respect for the body, relationships, and the many ways people carry and reshape their experiences. I specialize in supporting individuals, couples, and families navigating complex trauma, identity shifts, family rupture and repair, and times of transition or disconnection. Alongside somatic and expressive therapies, I integrate evidence-based modalities such as Exposure and Response Prevention (EX/RP), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients move through fear, avoidance, and stuck patterns.
Over the past decade, I’ve directed mental health and family violence programs, contributed to clinical research on mood and personality disorders with CUNY and Mount Sinai, and trained through the Ackerman Institute’s FEAT program to support LGBTQ+ youth and their families. I’ve also worked extensively in perinatal mental health, as a doula, educator, and social worker, and co-authored Postpartum Support International’s section on queer perinatal family-building and support needs. For more than two years, I’ve facilitated support groups for queer families, fertility journeys, and postpartum transitions.
My approach blends clinical rigor with curiosity, warmth, and creative process, helping people make sense of where they’ve been and move toward what’s next.
Outside of sessions, I ground myself through meditation, somatic practices, art making, storytelling, hiking, and Jewish communal life. I move as easily between silent meditation retreats as I do hard, off-the-beaten-path traveling, because I need inner world exploration as much as I crave seeing different parts of the world. Music, writing, photography, deep focused learning, organizing, volunteering, and wandering all have a place in how I recharge.
I’m the kind of person who can geek out about the weeds cracking through city sidewalks as easily as I can lose myself in the expanse of a forest trail. I bring that same mix of curiosity and grit into my work. Play and humor aren’t side notes for me, they’re often where healing and connection actually start. I move through the world with intention, irreverence, art, and a love of wanderlust and sacred encounters, the kinds of found places and found people that only appear when you’re willing to get lost, inside and out.