About Laurie
Laurie Snyder is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience. She focuses on relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, life changes, and coaching. Laurie takes a collaborative approach and helps people tune into their own strengths as they work toward change.
She uses a blend of practical tools to calm strong feelings and to help people reconnect with what matters to them. That can include breathing and centering practices, guided tapping exercises, and steps to reframe thoughts that keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
The work is aimed at reducing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping. Laurie often supports people who are dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and conflict in close relationships. She helps clients name triggers and learn to speak with clearer personal ownership so conversations feel safer and closer.
She also guides people through separation, grief, and the stress of caregiving or chronic illness. Part of her approach is helping people take small risks toward what they want. That may mean changing long-held beliefs about worthiness, setting intentions, or practicing new ways of communicating.
Laurie encourages present moment awareness and learning from difficult experiences. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, practical exercises, and gentle encouragement to try different strategies. Laurie is licensed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as an LCSW and draws on a long career of work with people facing life transitions and emotional challenges.
Evidence-based techniques suited for online care
Laurie offers several practical methods that translate well to remote sessions. Mindfulness and centering practices involve short guided exercises to calm the body and focus attention; these help with panic, stress, and strengthening present-moment awareness. Tapping and elements of energy psychology use gentle body-based techniques alongside talk work to help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and strong emotions. Cognitive reframing focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing alternative perspectives to reduce shame, guilt, and stuck patterns.Finding the right mix is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to try techniques and see what helps most, adjusting based on goals and feedback. Clients are invited to experiment and choose approaches that feel useful for their day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided practices. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit short check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let clients send concerns between sessions and get timely support while working through exercises. Together, these options make it easier to follow through on the homework and skills practiced in sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English