Laurie White
Calm, practical support for family and parenting
- Credentials
- LSCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laurie
Laurie White is a licensed social worker in Kansas. She holds an LSCSW and brings eight years of professional experience to sessions. Laurie focuses on practical help for people facing family and parenting challenges as well as related concerns like addiction and trauma.
She speaks English and works with adults seeking clearer ways to manage stress, grief, and relationship strain. Laurie builds straightforward conversations. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person’s situation and goals rather than a fixed script. She listens first, then helps create steps that feel doable at home. Her background includes work with substance use, domestic violence, and trauma and abuse.
Laurie also addresses emotional issues such as anxiety, depression, anger, and self-esteem. She brings experience with attachment and codependency concerns and with blended family dynamics. In therapy she draws on several evidence-informed methods.
Those include attachment-based approaches to improve connection, cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness techniques to build calm and focus. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and motivational interviewing also inform her work when clients need emotion regulation or help making changes. Sessions can include short-term problem solving or longer work on patterns that run in families.
Laurie aims to make next steps clear so people leave sessions with something practical to try. Getting started involves choosing a session format and discussing goals together.
Approaches that guide online family and parenting support
Laurie uses approaches that focus on relationships and clear skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns shape current relationships and helps people build safer, more predictable connections. It can be useful for family stress and attachment issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change them through small behavioral steps. It often suits anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing stress in daily life.
She believes choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals and preferences, then suggest techniques and adjustments. Together they decide what to try first and reassess what is working as therapy continues.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make care easier to fit into busy lives. These options allow people to work on relationship patterns, parenting challenges, or coping skills from their own home. The variety of formats also lets the therapist use different tools - short messages for check-ins, calls for deeper conversations, and video for face-to-face work.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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