Laura successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Human Relationships at Martin Luther University College-Wilfrid Laurier University in 2019. She completed an MA in Christian Theology at Luther in 2011, when it was known as Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. Laura’s research, emerging from her own experience of mothering a child with disabilities, focuses on mothers and parents of complex-care children. Her MA work explored the spiritual journeys of parents of medically fragile children, with a particular emphasis on the theological challenges and parental need for pastoral care.
