Welcome, glad you’re here.

Hi I’m Dr. Elsa Lau (she/they), a licensed Clinical Psychologist (NYS 025058).

Are you navigating life transitions that influence your identity(s), relationships, health, or spirituality (sense of meaning, purpose, and connection)? Does anxiety or depression seem to keep you from living an intimate and fulfilling life? Are you open to holistic assessment to better understand how neurotype and neurodivergence may shape your mental health? Exploring your experiences in a safe space can reveal the powerful desires and possibilities within different chapters of life.

In our first few sessions together, we’ll have a collaborative conversation about integrative and personalized methods of self-discovery. My training and research at Columbia University and the Spirituality Mind Body Institute provides helpful perspective on ways in which culture and environment influence our experiences and resiliencies. Pathways to meaningful change can at times lay hidden behind western secularity, or a sense of up-rootedness and baseline existential anxiety that is normalized within many institutions (be it corporate, or academic). However, an innate capacity for meaning and connection is very much alive within your current desires, struggles, and relationships. This perspective welcomes diverse approaches to wisdom and mental wellness, for myself and my clients.

A note on Positionality: being genderfluid, queer, neurodivergent (gifted 3e), and first generation Asian-American means that I may have shared lived-experience and affinity with the complex realities you’re navigating. At the same time, I hold privileged identities including being able-bodied, highly educated, middle class, and spiritually safe in most spaces. I strive to leverage my areas of privilege and also continue learning about worlds and realities I have limited personal experience of. I always welcome (and seek) feedback in order to do better.

Outside of work, you'll often find me exploring nature-based practices and play, and generally human-ing and learning about life with my wife and mischievous kids (a 12-toed cat and a german shepherd).

Let’s journey together on the path to a meaning-centered psychology (newsletter).

I work on the ancestral land of the Munsee Lenape and support the Manna-hatta fund, an intertribal organization for indigenous sovereignty, cultural revitalization, and wellness services now overseen by American Indian Community House.