Laura Schmidt

Laura Schmidt, MD, LCSW-C, is a Maryland-licensed clinician with 25 years of experience supporting people through complex emotional and relational challenges. Her practice addresses stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, and the transitions that accompany major life changes. She also works with concerns such as attachment and abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, workplace issues, and mood disorders.

Her approach is informed by cognitive behavioral methods, trauma-informed and systems-based perspectives, and somatic practices that attend to the body’s role in healing. These threads combine to help clients identify patterns of thinking and behavior, understand how relationships and family systems contribute to current difficulties, and access bodily cues that ground emotional work.

Laura takes a collaborative, strengths-oriented stance that emphasizes empowerment and practical skill building. She welcomes individuals and young people navigating identity, anxiety, or interpersonal transitions, and she aims to create an atmosphere where clients can explore emotions, shift unhelpful patterns, and cultivate resilience and clearer connections to themselves and others.