therapy center
CREATIVE solutions for your individual or family needs
Laurie L. Mowry-Hesler, M.A., ATR-BC, MFT
, LLC ®
14808 Physicians Lane Suite 111
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone 301-869-1017
therapists' bios
Laurie L. Mowry-Hesler is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Marriage and Family Therapy as well as a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist. Ms. Mowry-Hesler received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Elementary and Secondary Art Education from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1981, and her Masters of Art Therapy from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. in 1985.
As a Marriage and Family Therapist, Ms. Mowry-Hesler offers crisis intervention to single adults, young marital couples, and families in a cross-cultural setting as well as marriage and parental counseling. In addition to teaching preschoolers from two to four years of age, Ms. Mowry-Hesler has specialized in art education through the use of therapeutic interventions with students ranging in age from four to twenty-one years of age. She has extensive experience working with children with a wide variety of difficulties including children who have been referred for art therapy due to their lack of response or ability to participate in verbal therapy. Many of these children's diagnoses fall within the spectrum of Autism or Pervasive Developmental Delays. She also has extensive experience working with special education students with profound to moderate speech and language issues, and learning disabilities; with “at risk” emotionally disturbed children and adolescents; and early intervention programs for preschoolers. Currently, Ms. Mowry-Hesler additionally serves as the Site Supervisor for George Washington University Art Therapy Graduate Students as well as for The Katherine Thomas School at TLC, Rockville, Maryland (a private special education school for students with profound to moderate speech and language issues and learning disabilities).
Ms. Mowry-Hesler has been married for 22 years and has three teenage children as well as one adopted child with special needs.
