About Laura
Laura Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with 17 years of experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction, and other difficult life challenges. Her work focuses on practical steps people can use day to day to feel steadier and more in control.
She uses a few different methods to fit each person's needs rather than one fixed approach. Sessions often focus on clearer communication, better sleep routines, and managing intense emotions.
How Laura works
Laura helps people sort through family of origin issues, parenting stress, grief, and problems tied to abandonment or adoption and foster care. Clients can expect a calm, direct style that centers their goals. Conversations aim to build coping skills, tackle control and codependency issues, and improve self-esteem.
She also supports people dealing with burnout and compassion fatigue and those facing bipolar mood challenges from a practical standpoint. Laura blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and mindfulness practices. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when people want focused change or support for addictive patterns.
The mix is chosen to match the person’s immediate needs and longer term goals. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible access. Sessions are run on a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and an appointment is scheduled based on availability.
Laura lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional patterns. It helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and supports building safer ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation skills.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or help between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to keep momentum between appointments.
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