About Laura
Laura Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD-related concerns. Her work emphasizes clear, practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
She offers a calm and patient style in sessions. Conversations aim to identify patterns that get in the way and find small, realistic changes to try.
Background and approach
Laura listens for strengths and builds on what already works in a person's life. Her approach blends evidence-informed techniques with a warm, client-centered stance. She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are offered to improve focus and reduce reactivity. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and intimacy-related issues. Motivational interviewing supports people who are ready to make changes around addictions, career moves, or health goals.
Solution-focused elements help when someone wants brief, targeted support to meet a specific goal. Laura also addresses practical concerns like sleep problems, parenting stress, career strain, and grief. She pays attention to family of origin and caregiver-related stress when they affect current functioning.
Her aim is to leave people with clearer steps and more confidence in handling life’s challenges.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Laura blends cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness with an attachment-informed perspective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and relaxation practices to reduce reactivity and improve concentration. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and emotional needs, which can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and family-of-origin concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their day-to-day life, and adjust as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together which blend of techniques feels most helpful for symptom relief and practical change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, real-time coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options support flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside everyday commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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