About Laurel
Laurel Eigner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience based in Connecticut. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and grief in straightforward, practical ways. Laurel aims to make sessions calm and approachable so people can talk without pressure.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and develop different ways of responding. She also draws on mindfulness techniques to teach grounding and present-moment skills for managing panic, worry, and emotional overwhelm.
Background and approach
These approaches are useful for everyday stress, workplace strain, and coping with life changes. Laurel has worked across a wide span of needs, including support for bipolar mood concerns, self-esteem challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She has also supported people with aging and geriatric issues and those facing isolation or loneliness.
She brings practical problem-solving to conversations about relationships and workplace difficulties. Her style is easygoing and patient. Sessions often include skill building, simple behavioral experiments, and short practices to use between meetings.
People leave with clear steps to try in their daily life. Laurel has experience providing crisis stabilization and helping people through high-stress moments. Her goal is to offer steady support, clear tools, and a calm presence while people work toward better coping and more manageable routines.
How CBT and Mindfulness work in online sessions
Laurel uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. CBT sessions often include practical exercises and short tasks to practice between meetings, which translate well to video or phone sessions.Mindfulness Therapy is used to teach simple breathing, grounding, and focus techniques to reduce panic and steady attention. These practices are short, easy to learn, and can be guided over a call or through text instructions for practice later.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide whether CBT, mindfulness, or a mix best fits their goals and daily life. That decision is adjusted as needs change over time.
Online therapy includes video visits, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when that suits them; phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a hands-free check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, skill coaching, or sharing progress between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep practice consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English