About Laurie
Laurie Eddleston is a California licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. Laurie also offers guidance around parenting, self-esteem, and midlife transitions.
Her manner is calm and straightforward, aimed at people who need clear support and useful tools. Laurie uses a holistic, person-centered style. She listens to what matters most and helps clients identify practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Work in therapy often includes learning coping skills, improving communication, and rebuilding confidence after loss or change. Her background includes long experience supporting caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, attachment and family of origin issues, and blended family questions. She also addresses problems such as codependency, isolation, and guilt or shame.
Clients may bring worries about life purpose, jealousy, or aftermaths of natural or human-caused disasters. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Laurie aims to help clients feel more in control of daily stress and better able to make decisions.
She encourages simple routines and small, measurable steps toward goals. Therapy can be practical and goal-oriented while remaining warm and respectful. Laurie helps people move from feeling stuck to having clearer choices and more confidence.
She listens, reflects, and offers strategies that fit each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Laurie uses evidence-based techniques in sessions, presented plainly and applied to everyday problems. One common approach focuses on teaching coping skills for stress and anxiety. This involves learning simple techniques to reduce overwhelm, manage worry, and handle intense emotions so daily tasks feel more doable.Another frequent focus is working on communication and self-esteem. That work helps people notice unhelpful patterns, practice new ways of talking with others, and build small habits that improve confidence and relationships. These methods are useful for parenting concerns, caregiver stress, and family-of-origin issues.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Laurie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try techniques that match those aims, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Together the therapist and client pick steps that feel realistic and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions work well for quick check-ins or when video would be difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and get brief support without needing a full appointment. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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