About Laura
Laura Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Laura aims to create a calm, approachable space where people can talk about hard things without judgment.
Her style is practical and straightforward. She listens closely and notices patterns in how someone reacts to stress, sleep problems, or addiction. Then she helps people try small, manageable steps they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting and skills practice rather than long lectures. Laura uses a few complementary approaches to guide work in therapy. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current connections.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in to support present-moment awareness and personal motivation. People come to her for many concerns, including trauma and abuse recovery, grief, parenting strain, career stress, and intimacy issues.
She also supports those coping with ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, codependency, and caregiver burnout. Laura pays attention to each person’s history and daily life when planning treatment. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Laura guides each person to choose formats and goals that fit their schedule and needs.
How her approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how connection needs, fear of abandonment, or avoidance affect today’s relationships and choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, sleep troubles, mood shifts, and managing stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and what feels most useful. She collaborates to try methods that fit the client’s life and adjusts plans based on what is helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text sessions make it easier to check in between meetings, fit brief sessions into a busy day, or keep therapy going while traveling. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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