Laura
Sciarcon,
LMFTC.

Berkeley, then Harvard, then years working with the youngest kids. Then my own.

I have always worked with people in the earliest, most foundational years of connection. I studied sociology and women’s studies at UC Berkeley, then went to Harvard for a master’s in educational neuroscience and early childhood development. After that I worked directly with children from birth to five in early learning centers, and served as an Early Intervention Service Coordinator for families of infants and toddlers with developmental delays.

Then I had my own kids — and the last thing I wanted to do was be surrounded by toddlers all day while raising them. But I knew everything I had learned about how children develop, how bonds form, and what happens when family systems are under pressure — all of that still mattered. The way to use it was not to keep working with kids. It was to work with their parents.

“In 2017, I started playing the long con: one class a semester toward becoming a couples therapist, reminding myself that seven years would go by anyway.”

— Laura

EFT is not communication tips. It is the part underneath.

I practice Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the most well-researched model for couples therapy. EFT is not about teaching you communication skills or giving you homework. It is about understanding what is actually happening between the two of you — the patterns you keep falling into, what each of you is really feeling underneath the frustration, and why you cannot seem to reach each other even when you are both trying.

My background in neuroscience and child development gives me a particular lens on this. I understand how early bonds wire us, how those patterns follow us into adulthood, and how they show up — often loudly — when we become parents ourselves. That does not mean you need to have kids to work with me. It means I pay close attention to the deeper layers of how you learned to connect, and how that is shaping what is happening in your relationship right now.