Laura Braswell , LCSW

Laura Braswell is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) whose clinical training and life experience shape a practical, grounded approach to therapy. She completed post-graduate training at Rutgers University and Princeton and holds a Masters of Divinity with a focus on counseling. At 48, she draws on decades of personal experience, including a long-term marriage and raising six children along with caring for many foster children, to inform her work with empathy and realism.

Braswell has worked in multiple clinical settings and provided group counseling, individual therapy, and couples counseling. Her practice has focused on helping people navigate depression, anxiety, loss of purpose or drive, complex parenting and relationship dynamics, addictions, grief and loss, adoption and fertility concerns, and trauma. She combines clinical techniques with motivational and spiritual perspectives when those elements fit a client’s goals and values.

Believing that people can move toward meaningful healing when they receive appropriate help and support, Braswell emphasizes skills, goal-setting, and self-awareness. Her professional and personal background allows her to connect with clients from a place of lived experience as well as training, and she aims to help people identify patterns, interrupt destructive behaviors, and pursue realistic steps toward growth and resilience.