About Laura
Laura Gryniewich-Franklin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with an MD and nearly 20 years of experience. She offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Her approach is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make sessions feel practical and manageable.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that increase worry. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach grounded awareness and simple skills for staying present during hard moments.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills that can be used between meetings. Laura has worked in outpatient services, in-home care, education settings, and medical social work. That range of experience informs her practical problem solving for concerns like depression, grief, and relationship strain.
She also supports people dealing with workplace stress, caregiver burnout, and parenting struggles. Common topics she helps with include communication problems, codependency, infertility-related stress, midlife questions, and Seasonal Affective Disorder. She pays attention to life transitions and to the everyday pressures that build into bigger problems over time.
In sessions she offers a nonjudgmental presence and a collaborative stance. People meet clear goals at a pace that fits their life. Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to help people feel more capable and less alone.
Using CBT and Mindfulness Online
Laura uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; this approach is practical and works well for anxiety, low mood, and workplace stress. Mindfulness Therapy is offered as a companion tool to build moment-to-moment awareness, reduce rumination, and manage intense feelings during transitions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, daily routine, and comfort with different exercises. Together they’ll adjust techniques over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter exchanges, skill practice between sessions, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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