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Online therapist

Laura Brown

Compassionate guidance for parenting and life change

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Credentials
LICSW, LCSW, CSW
Experience
16 years
Licensed in
New York, Rhode Island, Oregon
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Laura

Laura Brown is a licensed social worker who focuses on parenting, self-esteem, career questions, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She speaks plainly and offers steady guidance to people facing stress or change. Laura emphasizes each person’s strengths and works alongside them rather than telling them what to do.

Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step easier and more doable. Laura uses straightforward, practical conversation to help people sort through challenges.

Background and approach

She listens closely and helps identify small, achievable steps to try between meetings. She brings 16 years of clinical experience to sessions and draws on a variety of methods to match what a person needs. Her background includes training in client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, existential thinking, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches.

Those tools let her help with problem-focused work like communication skills as well as deeper questions about meaning and purpose. She adapts methods to the issue at hand rather than using a single fixed approach. Sessions may include brainstorming ways to handle a tough conversation, testing a new coping skill, or reframing painful thoughts about past events.

Laura explains options clearly and helps people weigh what feels most useful. She is licensed as an LICSW, LCSW, and CSW and practices from New York. People meet with her to address blended family concerns, caregiver stress, divorce and separation matters, fertility-related distress, first responder stress, and similar life challenges.

She also works with feelings like guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose and midlife change.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and identify their own next steps when dealing with parenting pressures or career doubts.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and offers clear exercises to test new ways of thinking. This approach is useful for tackling low self-esteem, guilt, or coping with major life changes.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the issue, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaboration makes it easier to pick methods that feel practical and relevant.

Online therapy with Laura uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to make scheduling more flexible. These formats let people have a session from home or between other commitments, and they support ongoing work whether someone prefers spoken conversation or shorter written check-ins. The range of options helps match the way a person likes to communicate and keeps care accessible during busy or changing seasons of life.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Existential Therapy

Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Laura support?
She focuses on parenting, self-esteem, career issues, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, plus areas like blended family issues and caregiver stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, emphasizing listening, identifying strengths, and trying small practical steps between sessions.
What is her background in therapy?
She has 16 years of clinical experience and has worked across a range of mental health settings to help people with motivation, confidence, and life transitions.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LICSW, LCSW, and CSW credentials and practices in New York. License numbers are VT LICSW 089.0136868 and CO LCSW CSW.09932708.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Laura provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
16 years
Licensed
New York, Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Vermont
Languages
English

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