About Laurie
Laurie Siegel is a licensed social worker in New York with 19 years of practice as a clinical therapist. She draws on long experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Laurie keeps language simple and direct so parents and busy adults can quickly grasp how therapy might help.
She focuses on strengths and practical steps rather than labels. Laurie helps people talk through family conflict, parenting strain, and relationship issues.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood challenges, and the effects of adoption, attachment, or abandonment. Sessions aim to build confidence and clearer choices. Laurie helps clients develop coping skills for anger, motivation, and attention concerns like ADHD.
She also addresses body image, eating and food-related issues, and caregiver stress in everyday terms. Her work is collaborative. Laurie believes people are the experts on their own stories and she offers guidance to move toward goals.
Conversations focus on what is practical and what fits each person’s life. Clients can expect a calm, respectful tone and help turning ideas into actions. Laurie uses her years of experience to simplify options and find steps that feel doable.
She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into a busy schedule.
Approaches that guide online therapy and what to expect
Laurie works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical problem solving and building coping skills. One common approach helps people learn clear, step-by-step strategies to manage anxiety and low mood so they can handle stressful moments more effectively. Another approach centers on strengthening communication and relationship skills, helping people set boundaries, improve conversations, and reduce recurring conflict.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Laurie will talk with each person about their goals, daily routines, and what feels most useful. Together they choose techniques that fit the client’s needs and adjust them over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow real-time conversation similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can work well when video isn’t convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, daily support, and keeping momentum between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations without losing continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English