About Laurie
Laurie Andrews is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, and effects of trauma. She offers calm, nonjudgmental support and meets people where they are. Laurie encourages small steps and practical changes that fit everyday life.
Her approach centers on listening first. She creates space for clients to talk about what feels hard and what they want to change. Laurie emphasizes compassion and unconditional positive regard as she helps people sort through painful feelings and confusing situations.
Background and approach
Laurie uses several evidence-based methods in sessions. She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Attachment-based ideas help address patterns that show up in relationships and in how people relate to themselves.
She also incorporates mindfulness and emotion regulation skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Those tools can be useful for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. Laurie tailors the mix of skills to each person rather than following a fixed script.
With four years of professional experience, Laurie has worked with people facing life transitions, family challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, body image struggles, addiction issues, and questions about identity. She works in English and practices in California. Laurie welcomes the courage it takes to begin therapy and supports clients through the early steps of change.
How Laurie’s approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use discussion and reflective exercises to notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going; in video or messaging sessions Laurie helps people identify unhelpful thinking and practice small behavioral changes. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills that reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Laurie talks with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the mix of approaches over time. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills work, relationship patterns, or mindful practice based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and do guided exercises together. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, audio-only check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter updates, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people access support without rearranging their whole schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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