Having Trouble Singing in the Rain?
Reclaim Your Joy: Psychotherapy
for Adults and Adolescents
Based in Westchester and available online
throughout New York and Connecticut
Life happens. Sometimes life happens a lot.
Another day and another hurt piled on top of all the hurts. You are loving and giving but don’t receive the same love and support in return.
It is easy to look at your life and wonder, “Why me?”
It feels like a lot of effort to sing.
You wish there were a better way.
Life is hard with a boulder in your roots.
Other people seem to have the script. Loving relationships, happy kids, sanity, peace. You have heartburn and a steel-fisted, trembling, wide-eyed grip on things as they head toward a brick wall.
You thought your love would, could, should make everything better; but why doesn’t it?
You thought you would stop the dysfunction bloodline; why isn’t the present prettier?
You thought you would be the better way.
You are always with yourself . . . and you are not enjoying the company. (Paraphrasing Diane Von Furstenberg)
What is wrong with me?
Why am I so (stupid, fat, lazy, a failure, unloved, alone . . . (insert today’s adjective here)?
A part of you feels beaten up and defeated; a part of you thinks the other part needs to toughen up and lose weight, exercise more, work harder, make more money, and have more friends…
If someone else talked to you like that, you would never talk to them again. You want to be kinder to you – but you are afraid you will never get anywhere if you loosen that grip.
It is hard driving through life with the hand-break on (paraphrasing Maxwell Maltz), but how could there be a better way?
You have lived through many terrible calamities . . . some of which actually happened. (Paraphrasing Mark Twain)
What if it is something serious?
What if he gets into an accident? What if she leaves? What if he does not get better grades? What if they don’t like me? What if I did not lock the door?
What if I don’t stop feeling like this?
Your stomach is in knots, and you can’t outrun your thoughts, though you try. You watch TV; you scroll, binge, and still they chase you.
What if there were a better way?
After the ecstasy, the dishes, the bills, and the overflowing toilet. (Paraphrasing Jack Kornfield)
You’ve had glimpses – experienced moments of love and profound awe, where your heart felt so big you wanted to hug the world.
Then that world (and other people) get in the way. You could be so warm, generous, peaceful, and loving – if you lived on the mountaintop. Alone.
But relationships are where the rubber meets the road. How do you hold the love when there are bills, kids, arguments, sickness, war, death…?
There has to be a better way.
Let’s find out together.
I know you are tired, but come,
this is the way.
– Rumi
Hi, I am Laura.
And I want to help you heal from the inside out and find your joy.
Having walked this path myself – sometimes skipping and singing and sometimes tripping over roots – I can tell you that it is possible to dance with gratitude in the rain.
Let’s release the painful emotional charge of past traumas that have been stored in your body for too long. Together, we’ll heal these wounds and negative patterns by bringing them to the surface with love, compassion, creativity, forgiveness, patience, and support.
It’s time to rewrite your story. So come, take my hand; this is the way.
What I Offer
You deserve so much more out of life.
Tap into your inner strength and find the confidence to face each new
day with enthusiasm and resilience.
There is a better way to live, and I can help.