About Laura
Laura White is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) based in New York with four decades of experience. She centers therapy on the body and personal experience, helping people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body and daily life. Her style is practical and down-to-earth.
She focuses on restoring balance and safety so people can move forward. She combines Somatic approaches with client-centered work and evidence-based techniques like cognitive-behavioral tools.
Background and approach
Sessions often include attention to bodily sensations, gentle grounding, and simple skill practice to manage anxiety, mood shifts, or overwhelming memories. The aim is to build steady coping skills and clearer thinking over time. Laura has long experience supporting people facing depression, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, addictions, grief, and trauma-related concerns.
She also helps with family and relationship stresses, parenting strain, career stress, body-image and eating concerns, and caregiving burden. Chronic illness, pain, and end-of-life issues are areas she understands from both professional and personal experience. Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused.
She listens for strengths and practical steps clients can use between sessions. When a referral for medication or specialty care is needed, she researches options and helps connect people to services. Sessions are offered in English and through multiple online formats.
Laura works with people across different backgrounds, including LGBTQ concerns, and aims to make therapy accessible and adaptable to each person’s needs.
Approaches that translate to online care
Somatic work focuses on sensing the body and noticing how stress and trauma appear as tightness, breath changes, or internal alarm. Online sessions can include guided awareness, simple grounding exercises, and movement cues to help people calm their nervous system.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and empathy. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what is heard, and helps clarify goals so clients feel understood and can make practical changes. This approach is useful for many concerns, including grief, identity, and caregiving stress.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Online CBT sessions teach straightforward skills for managing anxiety and depression, like testing unhelpful thoughts and practicing small behavior changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, provide ongoing skill practice between meetings, and allow people to access care from wherever they are. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and check-ins to each format to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English