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 impact your sense of identity, relationships, health, or spirituality (meaning, purpose, and connection)? Does anxiety seem to keep you from living an intimate and fulfilling life? Exploring these experiences in a safe space can reveal the powerful desires and possibilities within difficult chapters of life.

Working together, we’ll co-create integrative methods for healing and self-discovery. My training and research at Columbia University and the Spirituality Mind Body Institute explores how culture, nature, health, and spirituality influence our identity and mental health.

Sometimes pathways to meaningful change, purpose, and connection lay hidden behind western secularity and individualism, creating a sense of up-rootedness and existential anxiety. However, the innate desire and capacity for whole body wellness and integration is always present within ourselves and our relationships. This perspective welcomes diverse approaches to mental wellness (for myself and my clients), and I’d be honored to walk with you on your unique journey.

A note on Positionality: being genderfluid, queer, neurodivergent (2e/3e), and first generation Asian-American means that I may have shared lived experiences and affinity with the complex realities you’re navigating. At the same time, I hold privileged identities including being able-bodied, slender, 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 two wonderfully mischievous cats.

Let’s journey together on the path to a spiritually-integrative 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.