Laura G Bermudez LCSW PhD
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Laura Gauer Bermudez
LCSW, PhD
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.
Gwyneth Kirkbride, LMSW
Gwyn Kirkbride works with teens and adults navigating anxiety, depression, self-doubt, and periods when life no longer looks quite as expected. A graduate of Columbia School of Social Work, Gwyn brings a varied professional background to her clinical practice. Her earlier work in casting gives her firsthand insight into the pressures faced by performers and other creative professionals, while more than a decade in career development and economic empowerment has shaped her understanding of work, identity, and life transitions. Her background as a massage therapist also informs her interest in the mind-body connection and the ways emotions, stress, and trauma can live within the body.
Gwyn’s approach is strength-based and trauma-informed, drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness, and body awareness. Warm, collaborative, curious, and practical, she combines emotional exploration with practical support to help clients build confidence and gain a better understanding of themselves and what they need to navigate change.