About Laurie
Laurie Siegel is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of professional experience in New York. She has spent nearly two decades helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low confidence, or depression. Laurie focuses on practical steps and steady support to help people move forward.
She builds sessions around each person's everyday challenges and strengths. Laurie treats concerns like relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, and life transitions.
How Laurie works
She also works with issues such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, body image, and the effects of adoption or abandonment. Laurie uses approaches that rely on evidence and real-world results. In sessions she helps people notice patterns, practice new ways of coping, and set small, doable goals.
Conversations are meant to be straightforward and collaborative so people feel heard and leave with clear next steps. Her background includes long experience supporting people through communication problems, divorce and separation, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and recovery from domestic violence. She also addresses eating and food-related issues and the emotional impact of cancer or other medical concerns.
Clients can expect an approachable style that emphasizes strengths and practical change. Laurie aims to help people feel more capable of managing daily stress and making decisions that fit their lives.
What Laurie works with
The areas below are the ones Laurie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Work
Laurie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and problem solving. One common approach involves helping people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, then practicing alternative responses that reduce stress and anxiety. This approach is useful for worry, low mood, and managing ADHD-related challenges.Another typical method centers on building coping tools and small behavioral experiments. That means setting short, practical goals and tracking what changes, which can help with motivation, self-esteem, and managing mood swings seen in bipolar concerns. These methods translate well to online sessions because they emphasize steps people can try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, listen to the client’s needs and preferences, and adapt methods so they make sense for day-to-day life. This is a collaborative process aimed at matching techniques to goals and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can support shorter check-ins and ongoing reminders. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapy around busy schedules.
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