Laura Schmidt

Laura Schmidt, MD, LCSW-C, is a licensed therapist in Maryland with 25 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and the impact of trauma and abuse. She works with clients who feel weighed down by difficult emotions or stuck in patterns that affect daily life, relationships, family dynamics, and work-life balance, offering care that is compassionate, personalized, and practical.

Her work often centers on strengthening self-love, improving communication, and reconnecting with a sense of meaning and life purpose, especially during periods of change such as divorce and separation, caregiving stress, or major transitions. Using cognitive behavioral approaches, she helps clients notice how thoughts and beliefs shape emotional responses, then practice new ways of thinking and responding that better support their goals and values.

Laura also supports teens and college students navigating identity development, stress, anxiety, and interpersonal challenges during key developmental stages. Grounded in trauma-informed and systems-based perspectives, she considers how individual experiences intersect with family and social contexts. She integrates somatic work to help clients build awareness of the body and nervous system, using breath, physical presence, and felt experience as part of the healing process.

Her style is collaborative, strengths-oriented, and focused on empowerment. Through evidence-based therapeutic techniques, Laura helps clients build insight, increase resilience, and develop tools that support sustainable growth and healthier connection to themselves and others.