- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Laurie
Laurie Eddleston is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Laurie also provides parenting support and guidance for those facing midlife transitions and aging concerns.
She takes a compassionate, straightforward approach in sessions. Conversations focus on understanding what matters to the client and finding clear steps to feel better. Laurie helps people rebuild self-esteem and strengthen communication skills.
Background and approach
Sessions often address day-to-day pressure, caregiver strain, and difficult family dynamics. Laurie listens for patterns that keep clients stuck, then offers practical ways to change them. Work can include coping skills, problem-solving, and creating routines that reduce overwhelm.
She also helps with issues like attachment, codependency, guilt and shame, and loneliness. For parents she provides support around parenting challenges and blended family concerns without assigning blame. Laurie pays attention to how life stage and aging shape priorities and choices.
Her style is collaborative and person-centered. Clients set the goals and she helps map steps toward them. Laurie aims to create a calm setting where people can talk through hard feelings and try manageable changes.
What Laurie works with
Everything Laurie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Laurie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- 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-love
- Women's issues
How therapeutic approaches fit into online therapy
Laurie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is problem-focused work that identifies patterns causing distress and builds clear skills to manage them; this helps with anxiety, stress, and caregiver strain. Another frequent element is emotionally focused listening and reflection to help people process grief, rebuild self-esteem, and improve communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Laurie collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time so therapy stays relevant and useful rather than rigid or one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching new skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to stay steady through life transitions.
Questions people ask about Laurie
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Laurie works with stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on parenting concerns, midlife transitions, and aging-related matters.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and person-centered. Sessions focus on listening, practical steps, and building communication and coping skills.
What is her professional background?
She has 20 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker. That experience includes supporting people through caregiver stress, family dynamics, and personal transformation.
Where is she licensed and based?
Laurie holds an LCSW license in California and practices with clients located in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different preferences and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. Then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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