Silver Spring

Laura Krause, LCSW-C  received her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Social Work, specializing in child welfare. She has worked doing in-home family counseling and outpatient individual, family and couples counseling. She is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, an Adoption Competent Therapist and a Registered Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator who is adept in teaching parents and caregivers how to build a strong, bonding connection with their child by helping parents interpret their children’s cues through massage, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, and more. Laura has experience working with developmentally delayed, behaviorally challenged and homeless children, as well as postpartum depression, anxiety and depression, and family relationship difficulties. In addition to early childhood mental health, Laura has clinical expertise in the areas of adoption, trauma-informed intervention, neurological effects of trauma, attachment and connection, parenting and couples counseling, child development, early intervention, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, and Play Therapy.

Dr. Julie Murphy is a licensed psychologist in Maryland, providing therapy to individuals and couples. She earned her doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Murphy’s specialties include depression (including postpartum depression), anxiety, ADHD, executive functioning difficulties, identity development issues (especially for people with intersectional identities including disabilities, LGBQIAA+, trans, or nonbinary identities), family planning (especially for non cis gender/non-heteronormative relationships), relationship challenges, open/poly relationships, recovery from trauma (especially sexual violence), and parenting a child who has currently, or previously, had cancer. She uses methods that focus on strengths, empowerment, relationships, and healthy strategies for coping with oppression and trauma; has extensive training in relational-cultural, feminist, and interpersonal therapies; and also uses tools from mindfulness and narrative therapy. While she has done therapy and academic work related to marginalized communities for more than two decades, Dr. Murphy strives to continually learn as our cultural context, language choices, and rights change.