About Laurie
Laurie McNamara is a licensed clinical social worker in Delaware with five years of professional experience. She works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. Laurie focuses on practical ways to build confidence, improve motivation, and navigate relationship and career concerns.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then helps people map small, doable steps toward change. Conversations are shaped around each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Laurie draws on several evidence-based methods to meet everyday problems. She uses tools that help people reframe unhelpful thoughts, set realistic goals, and find new stories about themselves. Sessions often include concrete strategies for coping and decision-making.
She also supports people experiencing grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and issues tied to intimacy or jealousy. Additional focus areas include first responder stress, intellectual disability concerns, and challenges common to young adults. Laurie aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly.
She helps clients break large problems into smaller steps and practice new habits between sessions. Her goal is to help people feel more capable and in control of their daily life.
How Laurie Uses Practical Therapies Online
Laurie blends methods that aim to change unhelpful thinking, build motivation, and rewrite personal stories. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift negative thought patterns, which can lower anxiety and improve mood. Motivational Interviewing focuses on finding what matters to a person and increasing motivation to make concrete changes. Narrative Therapy helps people notice the stories they tell about themselves and to develop alternative, more empowering narratives.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Laurie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying ideas together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed rather than sticking to one method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or times when leaving home is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English