Laurie Siegel
Calm support for family and personal challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laurie
Laurie Siegel is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of professional experience. She practices in New York and brings steady, practical support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting struggles, and family tensions. She aims to help clients name problems and take manageable steps forward.
Laurie works from the belief that each person knows their story best. She focuses on meeting clients where they are and building on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with attention to what feels realistic for day-to-day life. Her background includes long-term work with issues such as relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around self-esteem and motivation. She also has experience with ADHD, bipolar concerns, and concerns related to identity and LGBT issues.
Laurie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients cope and adapt. Parents and caregivers often find her approach practical. She supports people managing parenting stresses, blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and communication problems.
Laurie pays attention to how problems in one part of life affect other areas. In sessions she listens, offers feedback, and helps develop small, doable strategies. She helps people work through feelings, plan changes, and practice new ways of handling tough situations.
Her style is supportive, direct, and collaborative.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Flexible Online Care
Laurie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life change. One approach emphasizes practical problem-solving to break large issues into manageable tasks and build daily routines that reduce stress and increase stability. This method is helpful for anxiety, parenting stress, and coping with life changes.Another common approach she draws on centers on strengthening communication and emotional understanding within relationships and families. It teaches clearer ways to express needs, set boundaries, and solve conflicts, which can help with blended family issues, divorce and separation, and ongoing communication problems.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which techniques fit their goals, preferences, and situation. Plans are adjusted over time as new needs emerge and progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep working on skills between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to support steady, practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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