About Laura
Laura White is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of professional experience. She uses a person-centered approach and practical strategies to help people manage stress and anxiety. Her style is supportive and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on building strengths and self-esteem.
She began her social work career in 1980 as a research assistant at a county jail, which shaped her commitment to the field. Laura holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in social work, plus additional graduate coursework in gerontology.
Background and approach
Her long practice includes work with medical and caregiving concerns alongside mental health issues. Her clinical work addresses a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, and eating problems. She also supports people facing grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image struggles, and life transitions.
LGBTQ issues and relationship or family challenges are part of her regular practice. Laura blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and elements of EMDR. She focuses on concrete steps people can use between sessions.
When needed she researches and suggests community referrals for medication, rehabilitation, or other services. Clients can expect straightforward, compassionate care that centers their goals. Laura offers evening and weekend appointments to fit busy schedules and works to make therapy practical and relevant to daily life.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Laura uses client-centered work to focus on each person’s goals and strengths, helping them name what matters and set clear steps forward. This approach is useful for people facing anxiety, depression, life transitions, or issues like caregiver stress.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT provides practical exercises that translate well to remote sessions, such as thought records and behavior experiments you can try between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy ideas are used to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Those techniques can be practiced in short online check-ins and reinforced with written or audio materials between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and recommend methods to try. Together you’ll adjust strategies based on what helps most and what fits your daily life.
Online work includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and longer skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make brief updates or coaching possible during the week. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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