Laura DeSilva

• Laura is the kind of therapist who makes you feel hope immediately. Sunshiny, deeply genuine, and grounded in the belief that healing happens inside a real relationship built on warmth, honesty, and trust.
• With a forensic and veteran-support background, she brings steady depth and real-world compassion; she loves watching people go from unsure to absolutely certain they can heal and grow.
• Laura received her bachelor's in psychology at Johns Hopkins University before completing her graduate studies in Forensic Mental Health Counseling at John Jay University.

Laura is a warm, bright, deeply connected therapist who has been drawn to emotional depth for as long as she can remember. An introvert who’s endlessly fascinated by people, Laura has a gift for one-on-one connection; she notices nuance, honors your lived experience, and helps you feel fully met, all without pretense, without pressure, and without the “therapy voice.”

Her clinical roots are psychodynamic, and in over 5+ years in practice, she’s become intentionally eclectic. She integrates body-oriented mindfulness, EMDR, CBT-based techniques, and a neurobiology informed lens to meet each client as an individual. She works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, and trauma, and is especially passionate about carving out a trauma-focused niche with EMDR, helping clients reset the nervous system and bridge the gap between what we know and what our bodies still react to.

In your first session with Laura, you'll explore your goals, expectations for therapy, and set the frames of your therapeutic relationship. Over the course of the first few sessions, she'll learn about your history and what makes you, you and collaborate on a treatment plan that best suits your needs and priorities.