Grounded in rigor
Open to wonder
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Therapy can be a place to rebuild trust in your Self, your relationships, and your capacity
for change
Whether you’re navigating midlife shifts, family planning, parenting, caring for aging parents, facing changes in health, or reckoning with long-standing patterns in relationships, our work together will be a place to pause, consider what’s been and what comes next.
I work with adults, couples, and families at the intersections of trauma, grief, identity, and connection. Many of my clients are in midlife or older adulthood, carrying the imprint of earlier experiences alongside new losses, transitions, and shifting roles, some into parenting and some into caregiving for their own parents. Some are healing from the long-term effects of childhood trauma, living with the challenges of OCD, or rebuilding after intimate partner violence. Others are exploring the complexities of life between cultures as first or second generation immigrants.
My practice is queer-affirming, trauma-informed, and grounded in both clinical rigor and lived understanding. Together, we'll make space for the layered realities you carry, the histories that shaped you, the relationships you’re in now, and what matters most to you at this time in your life.
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Couples Therapy
Structured support for embodied connection
At Psyche Soma Practice, I help couples deepen their connection through evidence-based approaches like Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Ackerman Relational work, integrated with somatic awareness, narrative therapy, and trauma-informed care. Together, we’ll slow down to notice patterns, nervous system cues, and the personal and shared stories that shape your relationship.
This work is about making space for truth, whether that means building intimacy, navigating conflict more skillfully, or renegotiating the terms of your partnership. It’s structured, collaborative support for relating with greater honesty, steadiness, and choice.
FAMILY Therapy
Family therapy that honors complexity
Families are ecosystems and in family therapy, we slow down to notice patterns, name what hurts, and understand how dynamics have taken shape over time. This isn’t about blame, but about seeing clearly, so that change is possible, whether that means healing old wounds, setting firmer boundaries, or shifting long-standing roles.
I integrate somatic insight, narrative work, and evidence-based approaches to help families navigate challenges around gender, identity, trauma, and life transitions. The work can be tender, direct, and sometimes uncomfortable but it is always grounded in the belief that families can find ways to relate in sturdier, more honest ways.
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 can begin. Together, we notice what’s here and now: how you relate, where you get stuck, what lingers, and how your nervous system responds. You’ll learn from others’ questions, feel validated by shared experience, and grow through real-time dynamics.
We draw on somatic practices, expressive work, and evidence-based tools. But most of the work happens between people, in presence, in reflection, and in those quiet moments when something just clicks.
individual Therapy
Individual therapy for the deeply human work of change
I offer individual therapy that blends clinical insight with somatic and expressive practices. Together, we’ll slow down to notice patterns, track your nervous system responses, and put words to the stories that shape how you move through the world. This is the groundwork for change that feels real and lasting.
Whether you’re navigating trauma, identity shifts, burnout, grief, midlife transitions, or the sense that you’ve simply outgrown old ways of being, our work will focus on expanding your capacity for choice and deepening your understanding of yourself, so you can relate to your life with greater integrity, agency, and meaning.
(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+ Mental Health
Navigating shifts in identity, relationships, health, purpose, caregiving, and the changing seasons of adult life. Space to reflect, grow, and create new and powerful meaning in a later-in-life juncture.
Grief & Bereavement
Helping patients navigate grief and bereavement with a blend of nervous-system awareness, meaning-making, and real relational support. Together we make space for the waves as they come.
Trauma Therapy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
A safe space to process overwhelming experiences, navigate chronic stress or abuse, understand survival responses, and work toward embodied safety and meaning. I use tools like EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, and somatic and expressive therapies to create steady space for survivors of trauma.
Evidence-based therapy for intrusive thoughts, compulsions, checking, contamination fears, moral or relationship obsessions, and regaining confidence in your own mind. Support focuses on reducing distress, increasing flexibility, and helping you build a life that isn’t ruled by rituals or doubt.
Intergenerational Trauma
Immigration & Acculturation
Exploring the ways family legacies, cultural histories, and inherited pain show up in your life, with space to understand and choose your own path forward. We’ll look at what you’ve carried, what you want to keep, and what you’re ready to release.
Supporting newcomers and first- or second-generation immigrants facing cultural adaptation, family dynamics, belonging, identity, intergenerational conflict, and the stress of building a life in a new place, existing as a third-culture kid or connecting to a long, and strong line of multicultural identity.
Attachment Therapy
Intimate Partner Violence
Attachment-focused therapy that supports you in recognizing old patterns, healing relational wounds, and strengthening your capacity for trust, safety, and closeness. For individuals, partners, and families wanting more stability and connection.
Compassionate support for survivors of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault, centering safety, stability, and healing. We process coercion and harm, support the nervous system, and rebuild trust in your own worth.
Queer Mental Health
Jewish Mental Health
Affirming care for LGBTQ+ individuals and couples exploring identity, coming out, relationships, family planning, community, discrimination, and living authentically. Support also for family members navigating a loved one’s coming out or gender transition.
Holding space for Jewish identity, intergenerational trauma, cultural or religious questions, antisemitism, family legacies, belonging, and exploring your relationship to tradition and heritage.
Neurodivergent Support
Reproductive Mental Health
Support for neurodivergent individuals and couples with identity, relationships, sensory needs, executive functioning, and workplace challenges. Guidance for family members on understanding and supporting their loved one.
Let's talk about PMDD, PCOS, perimenopause, menopause, endometriosis, fibroids, chronic pelvic pain, and other hormonal shifts. We'll work to reduce shame and find care strategies that fit your life.
Perinatal Mental Health
Queer Perinatal Mental Health
Support for pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, birth trauma, fertility journeys, loss, IVF, NICU experiences for individuals and families. Navigating building family while fostering connection and agency.
Support for LGBTQIA+ parents with specialized surrogacy, donor conception, IVF, and IUI counseling as well as pregnancy, postpartum, birth trauma, loss, and NICU experiences. Centering LGBTQ+ individuals and families.
Short-term therapy is designed to provide focused, structured support that can either complement ongoing therapy or address a specific need within a short time frame. Click below to find out more:
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR INSOMNIA
Welcome & thank you for being here!
Hello! I’m Laura, a licensed psychotherapist and mental health researcher offering virtual therapy, support groups, consulting, and psychoeducation for individuals, families, couples and professionals alike.
Together, we can explore the balance between structure and instinct, fostering growth, creativity, and the courage to expand.
I bring care, curiosity, and deep responsibility to the people and systems I work with by integrating a variety of therapeutic approaches. I use clinically grounded and mind-body-creative tools including (but not limited to) Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for obsessive-compulsive disorder, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), humor and play, somatic work, Expressive Arts Therapy, community connection, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, Prolonged Exposure (PE), and psychedelic integration.
Our work will focus on deepening your connection to your true self, breaking free from outdated expectations and patterns, and equipping you with the tools to navigate life with play, self-acceptance, and empowerment.
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