About Laura
Laura Jowly is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in New York. She supports adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with addictions. She also helps people coping with grief and loss while working on self-esteem and motivation.
Her style is open and straightforward. She creates a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings without judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps people can take between meetings alongside careful listening in person.
Background and approach
Laura helps clients untangle patterns that fuel anxiety or impulsive choices. She works with issues such as panic attacks, mood swings, and struggles with control or communication. She also addresses concerns tied to divorce, abandonment, guilt, and shame.
People seeking to build self-love and confidence can expect hands-on support. Laura offers tools to manage cravings, reduce worry, and cope with loss. She balances goal-focused work with attention to emotions in the moment.
Her practice offers a mix of check-ins and deeper therapy sessions. Progress is tracked in simple ways so clients can see small changes over time. The overall aim is practical relief and clearer personal direction.
Therapeutic approaches and remote care options
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people manage symptoms and change unhelpful patterns. One approach she uses helps people identify and shift thoughts that fuel anxiety and low mood, teaching skills to break cycles of worry and avoidance. This approach is useful for panic attacks, persistent worry, and depressive thinking.Another method emphasizes coping skills for urges and risky behaviors linked to addictions. It involves learning practical strategies to reduce cravings, plan for triggers, and build healthier routines. That work pairs well with grief work and rebuilding self-esteem after loss or difficult life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not, so clients remain active partners in the process.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is needed, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins or coaching between appointments. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep consistent care.
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English