About Laurie
Laurie Wade is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 20 years of experience to sessions. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, trauma, and depression. Laurie speaks plainly and works to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or uncertain.
Laurie starts by listening and treating each person as the expert on their life. She looks for strengths people already have and builds on them.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and down-to-earth so clients can try small changes between meetings. Her work draws on approaches that help people understand connection and patterns, change unhelpful thinking, and learn new emotion-regulation skills. That can mean looking at how past relationships shape current reactions, practicing new ways of responding to distress, or trying mindful awareness to reduce reactivity.
Laurie helps people with concerns like abandonment and attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, and communication or control problems. She also supports those dealing with divorce, guilt, shame, impulsivity, loneliness, and questions about life purpose or finances. Sessions are offered from New York and use straightforward language.
Laurie aims to be a calm, steady presence while helping people test new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.
How Laurie’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people see how early relationships shape current reactions and connections. Online sessions can use discussion and reflection to notice patterns and try new ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In teletherapy those steps translate into homework, thought records, and real-time problem solving with the therapist.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Laurie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend methods that fit. The plan can change over time based on what feels most helpful, so clients remain involved in choosing the path forward.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone is useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief, written ways to process thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still accessing a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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