About Laurie
Laurie Siegel is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience based in New York. She has spent nearly two decades working with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. Laurie frames clients as the experts on their own lives and offers steady support as they make changes.
Laurie focuses on practical, everyday steps that help people feel more capable. She encourages clients to use their existing strengths and to try small experiments between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and warm, aimed at building confidence and clearer choices. Her work often centers on family stress, parenting challenges, grief, and recovery from trauma and abuse. She also addresses career strain, body image, and issues related to adoption, attachment, and blended family dynamics.
Laurie pays attention to how life events and transitions affect mood and behavior. People bring concerns about anger, communication problems, caregiving stress, and coping after loss or separation. Laurie helps sort priorities and create doable plans for change.
She meets each person where they are and adjusts pacing to what feels manageable. Laurie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in sessions while collaborating with clients on goals. Her manner is empowering rather than prescriptive, and she supports people who want steady guidance through difficult life changes.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Laurie uses well-established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes skills practice and behavior change to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning; it helps people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and track what works. Another approach centers on strengthening self-awareness and emotion regulation to manage mood, anger, and the impact of trauma; this often involves learning ways to name feelings and shift responses.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then try methods that fit the person's life. Adjustments are made along the way so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions offer flexible options to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when written reflection feels easier. These formats make it simpler to continue therapy during busy periods or when in-person visits are impractical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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