About Laura
Laura Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. Her work also covers addictions, parenting challenges, sleep difficulties, career concerns, and ADHD.
She meets people where they are and listens first. Sessions aim to make daily life feel more manageable. She uses clear, practical steps alongside supportive conversation.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term clinical practice with adults facing major life changes and emotional overwhelm. She draws on approaches that help people understand attachment patterns, rethink unhelpful thoughts, and build mindful coping skills. In the room she is collaborative and direct.
She helps clients set realistic goals, try new strategies, and track small gains over time. Work often focuses on communication, boundaries, and managing strong emotions. For someone dealing with grief, burnout, relationship uncertainty, or addiction recovery, she offers steady guidance and practical tools.
Conversations can include exploring family of origin issues, commitment concerns, or parenting stress. Laura’s style balances warmth with problem-solving. She helps people find concrete ways to feel less stuck and more in control of their daily lives.
How these approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape present reactions. Online sessions can help people identify patterns in close bonds and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems by teaching concrete skills that clients can use between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Laura will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when video is impractical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while trying tools in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English