About Laura
Dr. Laura Kaplan-Naim is a New York State psychologist with three decades of experience. She focuses on helping adults manage anxiety, stress, grief, and work-related challenges.
She works with people who want practical strategies to feel steadier and get tasks done. Her background includes a PhD in Psychology and advanced study in speech and language pathology. Over 30 years she has worked in both public and personal settings in New York, bringing experience with learning disorders and language-based difficulties.
Background and approach
This often links to lowered self-esteem and worry about job performance. In sessions she uses straightforward tools like mindfulness and relaxation techniques to reduce anxiety. She also helps clients build time management and executive functioning skills for school and work.
The focus is on clear steps clients can try between meetings. Dr. Kaplan-Naim draws from client-centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and solution-focused ideas to tailor sessions.
She aims to create a warm, collaborative space where people feel heard and guided toward practical change. People come to her for help with career decisions, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and life transitions. She also works with concerns like social anxiety, seasonal mood changes, caregiver stress, and end-of-life planning.
Her approach is to identify manageable next steps that move people toward their goals.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person's goals; it creates a collaborative space where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps clarify steps forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts and behaviors and teaches clear practices to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy helps people develop simple attention and breathing practices to manage stress and improve focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. From that conversation she tailors techniques and checks in regularly to adjust the plan so it fits the client's life and needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or shorter updates between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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