About Laurie
Laurie Tucker is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with eight years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, addictions, and the fallout from trauma. Laurie works directly with clients to build goals and practical steps they can use day to day.
Her approach is warm and respectful. She listens first and then tailors conversation and strategies to each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with room to talk through feelings and make concrete plans for change.
Background and approach
Laurie uses a mix of methods depending on the situation. That can mean looking at current thoughts and behaviors, exploring motivational shifts, or attending to past patterns that keep repeating. She helps people identify small, doable actions that reduce distress and move them toward their values.
People come to her for many reasons - relationship strain, work stress, low self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, or struggles with substance use and process addictions. Phobias and panic symptoms are also listed among her focus areas. Sessions aim to balance practical coping skills with deeper reflection about life direction and meaning.
Laurie encourages clients to try concrete techniques between meetings and to adjust the plan as progress is made. Her style is steady, compassionate, and focused on empowering change.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities, with the therapist listening deeply and shaping sessions around what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs validation, a clearer sense of goals, or support making choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect, and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, phobias, panic, mood concerns, and problem behaviors because it provides step-by-step strategies to try between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing focuses on increasing a person's own motivation to change by exploring ambivalence and highlighting personal reasons for change. It pairs well with work around addictions, habit change, and readiness for broader life adjustments.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then recommend methods to try together. Plans are adjusted over time based on what the client finds helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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