Laura White
Experienced family-focused LCSW-R
- Credentials
- LCSW-R
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laura
Laura White is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) based in New York. She brings 40 years of experience to sessions and takes a person-centered approach that focuses on the client's needs and goals. Her style is practical and supportive, aimed at helping parents and families find workable steps forward.
She combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to address symptoms and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for trauma-related concerns when appropriate. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with stress and emotional regulation. Laura has worked across many settings since 1980, beginning as a research assistant in a corrections environment and later gaining additional masters-level coursework in gerontology.
Her background includes work with people facing depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma, addictions, ADHD, eating concerns, and caregiving stress. She is also experienced supporting LGBT clients and families dealing with blended family issues, adoption and foster care, and end-of-life challenges. Her approach is hands-on and goal-oriented.
She helps people identify strengths, build self-esteem, and take concrete steps toward change. When specialized care is needed, she looks up and makes referrals for medication management, rehab, or other services. Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
Laura works with people across ages and cultural backgrounds and offers evening and weekend times to fit busy family schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Laura uses client-centered therapy to create space for each person to describe what matters most. This approach focuses on listening and helping clients find their own solutions, which is useful for parenting concerns and family stress.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, and problems that interfere with daily family life. In addition, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is available for trauma-related symptoms and can reduce distress tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and preferences, try techniques that fit, and adjust the plan as needs change. That teamwork helps match methods to what an individual or family actually needs.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, reduce travel, and maintain contact between appointments. Flexible formats also allow continued work during life changes and across different locations.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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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
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