Laura Braswell , LCSW

Laura Braswell is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who combines professional training with extensive life experience. She received postgraduate training at Rutgers University and Princeton and holds a Master of Divinity with a focus on counseling, a background that informs her practical and spiritually attuned approach to care.

At 48 years old, she draws on decades of personal experience - including 22 years of marriage, parenting six children, and caring for many foster children - to connect with clients from a place of empathy and lived perspective. Her clinical work spans multiple settings and includes group counseling, individual therapy, and couples counseling.

She has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, a loss of purpose or drive, complex parenting and relationship challenges, addictions, grief and loss, adoption and fertility concerns, and trauma. Her philosophy centers on the belief that people can move toward meaningful healing when they have the right combination of help, motivation, and spiritual guidance.

As an experienced counselor who has navigated many life situations firsthand, she frames her practice around practical change, breaking destructive patterns, setting achievable goals, and supporting clients as they pursue greater purpose and wellbeing. She emphasizes that life is often difficult but that individuals are not alone in seeking change and growth.

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