About Laura
Laura Schmidt, MD, LCSW-C helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. She combines practical, easy-to-use tools with calm guidance so people can feel steadier in daily life. She uses clear, actionable strategies to notice and change thoughts that fuel worry and low mood.
Sessions often include breathing and body-awareness exercises to reduce tension. Laura writes plans with small steps so progress feels realistic and manageable. With 25 years of experience in Maryland, she brings a broad perspective to problems that overlap life, work, and close relationships.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma and post-traumatic stress, and she emphasizes understanding how past experiences shape current reactions. That helps clients make sense of patterns that keep returning. Her approach mixes cognitive techniques with somatic work to address both thinking and bodily responses.
This means clients practice noticing where stress shows up in the body and learn simple tools to interrupt those reactions. Sessions are collaborative - goals are set together and adjusted as needs change. Laura also offers help around issues like abandonment, attachment, body image, caregiver stress, and coping with big life changes.
She aims to help people build more self-understanding, stronger communication skills, and a clearer sense of purpose. The focus is on steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that address thoughts and the body online
Laura combines cognitive techniques with somatic work to help people reduce anxiety and regain control. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and beliefs that fuel worry and low mood. These techniques teach practical skills for testing thoughts and trying new behaviors that often reduce symptoms over time.Somatic work helps people notice where stress shows up in the body and use simple body-based practices to calm the nervous system. That can include breath work, grounding exercises, and movement suggestions that reduce physical tension and make it easier to think clearly. Together these approaches address both thinking patterns and bodily reactions.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to set goals, try approaches, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. Clients help guide which techniques are emphasized according to their needs and preferences.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for interactive work and demonstrations, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, short skills practice, or between-session coaching. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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