About Laurie
Laurie Siegel is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 19 years of experience. She has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and a range of life changes. Laurie emphasizes practical support and steady encouragement as people work toward change.
She believes each person knows their own story and strengths. Sessions aim to draw out those strengths and use them to face current challenges. Laurie frames therapy as a partnership - she supports and empowers rather than tells someone what to do.
Background and approach
Clients often come for help with relationship friction, family concerns, parenting strain, or problems at work. Laurie also addresses issues such as grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, mood concerns, and questions around identity and self-esteem. She listens for what matters most and helps set clear, manageable goals.
Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on practical steps. Conversations include focused problem solving, building skills to manage anxiety and stress, and planning for realistic changes. Laurie pays attention to how daily routines, relationships, and past experiences affect current feelings.
People who prefer calm, straightforward guidance tend to find her style usable. Sessions are paced to fit each person’s needs and comfort level. Laurie aims to help people develop tools they can use between sessions as life continues to shift.
Approaches That Guide Online Work
Laurie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One approach helps people learn specific coping skills for anxiety and stress - it breaks worries into manageable pieces and teaches steps to reduce overwhelming feelings. Another approach emphasizes exploring personal strengths and past solutions to build confidence and motivation for change. That work is useful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and coping after loss.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Laurie will listen to goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then suggest techniques that fit. She checks in as therapy progresses and adapts strategies so they remain helpful and realistic for each person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick updates, scheduling flexibility, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working toward steady improvement.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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