About Laura
Laura Brown helps people facing parenting challenges, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, major life changes, and compassion fatigue. She focuses on practical steps parents and caregivers can use to reduce overwhelm and rebuild confidence. Laura brings 16 years of clinical experience to her work in New York and speaks English.
Laura meets people where they are and treats their concerns as part of a life story. She emphasizes listening first, so clients feel understood before moving to problem-solving.
How Laura works
Sessions blend talking through feelings with setting small, doable goals to test different approaches. Her style is straightforward and respectful. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s priorities and Motivational Interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that actually work in daily life. Laura has a Master-level clinical social work background and holds the credentials LICSW, LCSW, and CSW.
She uses those years of experience to tailor strategies to each person’s situation, whether the challenge is blending families, caring for someone else, or managing guilt and shame. Many clients focus on improving communication, handling control issues, or finding life purpose after a big shift. Laura offers practical steps, short-term problem-focused plans, and opportunities to reflect on deeper meaning.
The goal is clearer choices and less daily strain, one step at a time.
Laura lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Laura works with
The areas below are the ones Laura selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches and online support for real-life challenges
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and priorities so sessions follow what matters most to them. This approach is useful when someone needs time to feel heard and to identify their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and tests small behavior changes to reduce distress. CBT often helps with low self-esteem, career stress, and coping with life changes.
Motivational Interviewing uses curious, nonjudgmental questions to help people find their own reasons for change and build momentum. It can be especially helpful when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust over time. This is a collaborative process where the client’s needs and preferences guide the plan.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering options for different days and energy levels. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets hectic.
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