Maria Laguna (she/her/ella) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is a former faculty member and current clinical supervisor at the Metropolitan Center for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP.)

Maria co-authored the book “From Grad School to Private Practice: a Roadmap for Mental Health Clinicians” (2023), and a book chapter: Exploring Immigrant’s Self-States from an Intersectionality Lens: Finding Liberation in the“In-Between” (in press, Nomos Verlag).

Maria is the founder of Bicultural Collective, a virtual space that offers resources and support for clinicians and patients from multicultural backgrounds.

She has taught immigration classes for multiple Universities (NYU, Columbia University, Mercy College).