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- Stress and anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression support
About Laura
Laura Schmidt is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C) in Maryland with 25 years of clinical experience working with adults. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes.
She helps people talk through relationship challenges and mood concerns using practical, evidence-based techniques. Laura aims to make sessions straightforward: identify patterns, try small behavioral changes, and notice what shifts. Her work emphasizes understanding how past attachment and abandonment experiences shape current reactions.
Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral methods to notice and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses trauma-informed ideas and somatic practices to include the body when emotions feel stuck. That combination is intended to address both thoughts and physical responses to stress.
Laura often addresses issues such as caregiver stress, communication problems, control struggles, and isolation. She also supports people working through divorce or separation, body image concerns, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Sessions focus on clear skills people can use between visits.
She practices in Maryland under the LCSW-C credential. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the online therapy options flow. Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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Therapeutic approaches and remote sessions
Laura integrates cognitive behavioral ideas and trauma-informed somatic work. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Somatic-informed approaches pay attention to bodily responses to stress and use breath, movement, or grounding practices to change how the body holds emotion.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts those methods over time based on what is helpful.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time, and check in from a convenient location. Different remote formats can also allow for shorter check-ins or sessions that do not require video when that better fits someone's schedule or bandwidth. Licensed professionals aim to match the session rhythm and method to a person's life while working toward clear, practical goals.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Maryland
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes, plus related issues like attachment, abandonment, and body image.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses evidence-based techniques in a collaborative, skills-focused manner, combining cognitive behavioral methods with trauma-informed and somatic elements.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience delivering clinical social work services in Maryland.
What are her credentials and location?
She holds the LCSW-C credential in Maryland and practices there.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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