Dr. Laura Anderson, PsyD
Common Chord Psychology Services
Dr. Laura Anderson has been a licensed child and family psychologist for more than twenty years, and is lucky to have called Hawaii home for most of her career. Dr. Anderson’s areas of expertise include school consultation, assessment of children and adolescents, anxiety treatment, and working with foster and adoptive families.
Additionally, in the past decade Dr. Anderson has done a deep dive into specializing in the provision of services to gender expansive and LGBTQ+ kids, teens and their families. She is a member of the UCSF Mind-the-Gap Mental Health Consortium for mental health providers who are gender specialists. Dr. Anderson spent time as the co-founder of Parenting-in-the-Gap, a group under the umbrella of Mind-the-Gap that focuses on training therapists to work effectively with family members of gender expansive youth. For both personal and professional reasons, Dr. Anderson is passionate about supporting gender expansive and LGBTQ+ youth and their families.
