Laura G. Bermudez

Laura is a psychotherapist, social scientist, and advisor based in New York. Through therapy and coaching, she assists individuals through life transitions, grief, anxiety, trauma, relationship conflicts, and planning for a more resilient and fulfilling journey ahead. Laura is an integrative clinician pulling from multiple modalities to best serve client needs - including CBT, DBT, and EMDR while being firmly rooted in an existential-humanistic approach. As an advisor, she provides guidance on global mental health, leaning on her experience with international non-profits, UN agencies, and governments partners. As a clinician, her therapeutic process is both trauma-informed and globally-oriented, harnessing the similarities that bind the human experience across cultures and communities – a desire for meaning, mastery, purpose, belonging, and hope.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, a Master’s Degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Social Work from Columbia University. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State and has specialized training in Forced Migration, Grief Counseling, Mental Health in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, and Clinical Care for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum. She provides pro-bono psychological evaluations to the Physicians for Human Rights' Asylum program and is a Fulbright Specialist on Global Mental Health.