About Laurie
Laurie Wade offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the fallout of trauma and abuse. She focuses on helping clients clarify what matters to them and find manageable steps toward a more balanced life. Laurie believes people know their own story and brings 20 years of practice to guide each person’s process.
Laurie is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in New York.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths that can be built on, and she helps people notice patterns that get in the way. Conversations are straightforward and grounded, aimed at small, useful changes rather than grand promises. Her work often addresses relationship strain, compassion fatigue, and worries about mood and purpose.
Laurie also supports people coping with chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and financial or life-direction stress. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes when those come up in a person’s history. Practically, she uses methods drawn from attachment-based and client-centered work, along with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies when helpful.
She helps clients practice new ways of thinking and managing strong emotions. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings. Laurie aims to create a steady space for honest talk and real problem-solving.
She helps people set clear goals, test small changes, and track progress at a realistic pace. For many, that steady approach makes things feel more manageable over time.
Practical approaches for online therapy and emotional healing
Laurie draws on attachment-based work to help people understand patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current stress. This approach looks at how connection and trust show up now and what small changes might ease relationship strain.She also uses client-centered methods that keep the person’s own goals at the center of sessions. That means listening closely, reflecting what matters, and shaping each meeting around the client’s priorities rather than a preset agenda.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Laurie will work together with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She may introduce cognitive-behavioral or mindfulness exercises when they match the goals, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs. Video is good for longer sessions that benefit from face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer a way to connect between sessions or to fit brief conversations into a busy day. These options aim to make regular, reliable work on goals easier to maintain from day to day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English