About Laura
Laura Miller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 22 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and work through relationship concerns. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making the first steps feel less overwhelming.
She starts by listening to each person's story and recognizing strengths they already have. Laura treats clients as the experts on their lives and helps them build on what’s already working.
Background and approach
Sessions are intended to be collaborative and straightforward, with clear steps to try between meetings. Over more than two decades she has supported people facing depression, major life changes, and the specific stresses of caregiving. She also addresses codependency, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
Laura works with issues related to drug and alcohol addiction, panic attacks, and concerns often described as men’s or women’s issues. Her approach focuses on practical tools for day-to-day coping. She helps people identify patterns, practice manageable skills, and set realistic goals.
The aim is to reduce distress in everyday life and increase confidence in facing difficult situations. Starting therapy is framed as a courageous step. Laura guides each person through a clear intake process, helping them choose session formats that fit their schedule and needs so they can begin making small, steady changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Laura uses well-established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new ways of responding to stress and anxiety; this helps when panic attacks, worry, or low mood get in the way of daily life. Another approach centers on building healthier behaviors and routines to reduce substance use and regain control, using step-by-step strategies and relapse prevention planning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try an approach that fits your situation, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaboration makes it easier to find methods that feel useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit around work breaks or low bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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