About Laurie
Laurie Kaufmann is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina who focuses on stress and anxiety. She brings 15 years of experience to conversations about depression, grief, parenting concerns, and self-esteem. Laurie speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She sees people as the experts in their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Laurie helps clients break down problems into small, usable steps so progress feels possible. Her approach often uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thinking and try new responses. She also leans on client-centered work that follows the person's lead and on mindfulness practices to ease stressful moments.
Solution-focused ideas are used to identify small changes that make a difference quickly. Laurie works with common life challenges such as feeling stuck, guilt, shame, isolation, and trouble with communication. She often supports people working through life purpose questions, codependency, and young adult transitions.
Conversations also address worries tied to mood disorders and self-love struggles. Practical steps are a regular part of sessions. Clients may leave with a small experiment, a new way to frame a hard situation, or simple strategies to lower anxiety.
Laurie aims to make therapy a usable part of daily life, not a source of more stress.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. The therapist reflects what matters to the client, helps clarify goals, and adapts pace and style to the individual. This approach is helpful when someone needs space to tell their story and feel heard.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses short exercises and homework to try different responses to worry, low mood, or unhelpful thinking. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood difficulties, and building concrete coping skills.
Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity in stressful moments. These tools help with staying grounded during anxiety or grief and can be used between sessions.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Plans can change over time based on what helps most, and small experiments are used to test new ways of coping.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or short coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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