About Laurie
Laurie Andrews is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She welcomes straightforward conversations and aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what matters most to them. She uses simple, practical methods so clients can notice small changes quickly.
Sessions focus on understanding what’s getting in the way, building skills to manage strong emotions, and strengthening how people relate to others.
Background and approach
Laurie listens closely and adjusts the pace to each person’s needs. Her background includes four years of professional experience providing care in California. That time has included working with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and motivation struggles.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, blended family issues, body image, and life purpose questions. Laurie draws on several common therapy approaches. She blends attachment-based work to examine patterns in relationships, client-centered methods that prioritize the client’s perspective, and cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are also used when helpful. People who choose Laurie can expect a compassionate, task-focused approach. Sessions aim to be respectful and clear, with practical steps to practice between meetings.
She encourages small, steady progress toward the goals each person sets.
Therapeutic approaches and online care options
Laurie uses client-centered therapy as a foundation, which means sessions are guided by the client’s needs and pace. This approach focuses on listening without judgment and helping people find their own solutions to problems.She also relies on cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Laurie will talk through your goals and try methods that fit your situation. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and invites clients to share feedback on the process.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let conversations feel closest to in-person meetings, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a quick touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while continuing to focus on progress and skill building.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English