About Laura
Laura Brown is a licensed social worker based in New York who helps people facing parenting challenges, low self-esteem, career setbacks, and major life changes. She also supports those feeling compassion fatigue and people navigating blended family issues, fertility concerns, divorce, or caregiver stress. She speaks English and draws on 16 years of clinical experience to guide practical, down-to-earth conversations.
Laura keeps sessions straightforward and person-focused. She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
She listens first, then suggests small, doable steps to try between meetings. The goal is steady, realistic progress rather than dramatic overnight change. Her work draws on several familiar approaches including Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
She uses tools that help people notice thoughts and change unhelpful patterns, and she helps clients tell the parts of their story that matter most. She also brings in existential ideas to clarify values and purpose when life feels uncertain. Sessions can address communication problems, control issues, isolation, guilt and shame, and problems tied to first responder work or natural disasters.
Laura pays attention to how life events shape daily choices and relationships. She helps people create clearer priorities and better ways to cope. Laura holds LICSW, LCSW, and CSW credentials with licensing details on record.
She offers therapy by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and she works within a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to her practice.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist offers empathy, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify their own solutions; this approach can be useful for parenting stress and self-esteem work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thought patterns and try different actions to change how they feel; it is often used for anxiety, career worries, and coping with life changes. Existential Therapy looks at values and meaning, helping people facing crossroads or midlife questions to clarify what matters most.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, check what feels helpful, and adapt methods based on the client's goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that adjusts over time as needs change.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for focused check-ins, and messaging supports quick updates or ongoing reflection. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New York, Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Vermont
- Languages
- English