About Laura
Laura White draws on a client-centered approach to help people navigate hard moments. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-R, based in New York with four decades of practice. Her style is supportive and goal-oriented, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and addictions. Trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related issues are also central to her practice.
How Laura works
Laura helps people dealing with body image, eating concerns, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and cancer-related worries. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master of social work. She has additional graduate coursework in gerontology and an EMDR Level One certification from 2001.
That mix gives her a broad perspective on life-stage concerns and medical or disability-related stress. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior strategies, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness. She aims to find strengths to build on and to set concrete, achievable goals.
She also helps people connect with outside resources when medication, rehab, or other services are needed. Laura has worked in social work since 1980, beginning in forensic research and moving through many community and clinical roles. She knows caregiver stress firsthand and combines professional and personal experience when supporting people facing illness or end-of-life challenges.
She offers evening and weekend appointment times for greater scheduling flexibility.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist follow the person's lead, reflect back concerns, and help set practical goals for daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers simple exercises to change them. In remote sessions CBT can include thought records, activity scheduling, and short skills practice between meetings to address anxiety, depression, and coping with change.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that uses structured processing to reduce distress tied to traumatic memories. Parts of EMDR can be adapted to video work so the therapist and client can work through memories while tracking progress together.
Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods as therapy progresses to find the best fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer, interactive work and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send notes and get support between meetings. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels with remote care.
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