About Lanika
Lanika Laster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She offers steady, practical support for those dealing with compassion fatigue and concerns around body image or communication. Her language is direct and calm, and she focuses on doable steps people can use each day.
Lanika draws on a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She listens to personal history and family of origin issues to find patterns that matter. Then she helps people set clear goals and practice small changes that add up. Sessions include tools to improve communication, rebuild self-love, and explore life purpose.
She also addresses multicultural concerns and issues specific to women in straightforward terms. The work tends to be practical - noticing what isn’t working and trying new ways of responding. Lanika is based in New York and uses a collaborative style.
She aims to create an accepting space where people can talk through forgiveness, grief, or the stress of transitions. Over time this approach supports stronger daily coping and clearer next steps. Her practice emphasizes skills you can use between sessions.
That might be short exercises, new communication habits, or reframing negative self-talk. The focus is helping people move from feeling stuck to making steady progress.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Lanika uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailors them to each person. For example, practical skills training focuses on concrete actions and exercises to change unhelpful patterns. This approach helps with communication problems, body image, and everyday coping by giving short, repeatable practices.She also uses narrative and reflective methods to look at family of origin issues and multicultural concerns. These approaches help people reframe past stories and see new options for relationships and self-worth. Together, these methods support work on forgiveness, life purpose, and strengthening self-love.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust what isn’t working. Clients are invited to share how an approach feels and what fits their routines so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, quick coping tools, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English