- Years in practice
- 19
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Laurie
Laurie Siegel is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and issues that affect self-esteem. Laurie treats concerns with a practical, straightforward style and supports clients as they take steps toward change.
She takes a strengths-based view, inviting people to use what already works in their lives. Sessions are a place to talk through what feels stuck, try different ways of responding, and set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Laurie frames progress as steady effort rather than sudden fixes. Her experience spans many life concerns including relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. She also works with people facing adoption and foster care questions, attachment and blended family issues, caregiver stress, and body image or eating concerns.
Laurie brings almost two decades of practice helping people find clearer options. Laurie typically uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs. She helps people identify patterns, practice new skills, and build on strengths to manage mood and behavior.
Her approach aims to make therapy practical and applicable to day-to-day life. Sessions are offered in English. Laurie works with adults who want support with parenting issues, career challenges, anger, or the emotional aftermath of loss and change.
She encourages a collaborative working relationship and meets people where they are.
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
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- ADHD
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Laurie often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize clear skills and practical change. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing it against real-life results to reduce anxiety and low mood; this helps with worry, depression, and stressful thinking. Another approach centers on building emotional awareness and coping skills so people can respond differently to triggers and relationship strain; this is useful for anger, grief, and trauma-related reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laurie collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods as clients try new skills and notice what helps.
Online therapy is offered through several formats to make care flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between appointments.
Questions people ask about Laurie
What concerns does Laurie commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Laurie takes a practical, strengths-based approach. She helps clients set small goals, practice new skills, and apply changes to everyday life.
How much experience does she have?
Laurie has 19 years of professional experience as a licensed social worker working with a range of mental health and life concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LCSW credential and practices out of New York as a licensed clinical social worker.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Laurie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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