Laura’s journey to becoming a therapist wasn’t exactly a straight line. Growing up mostly in Virginia, outside of Washington D.C., she was typically the person that others came to with their challenges. She loved listening and being present with other people’s stories but didn’t realize that could be her life’s work. After completing her undergraduate studies in Miami, she began work as a drug prevention specialist in middle and high schools. Witnessing the different issues that accompanied the clients she worked with, Laura discovered her passion for people and their stories. 

Laura has worked in different community settings, including psychiatric hospitals, PHP, and IOP programs, and private practice. She has training in several different treatment modalities including Internal family systems, EMDR, mindfulness, self-compassion, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Since becoming a parent herself, she connects with the journey of the wide range of issues that affects today’s parents like infertility, challenges in pregnancy and postpartum, birth trauma, and navigating the big life transition of becoming a parent. She also has a special interest in grief and loss, anxiety disorders, as well as childhood emotional neglect and its effects on relationships, addiction, anxiety, and depression in adulthood.

Laura enjoys movies, trying new cuisines, yoga and meditation, and spending time with her husband as they chase after their active daughter.