Laura Phillips, LCSW

Laura Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Her work also addresses trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and issues around intimacy and parenting.

She creates a calm, accepting space where people can talk through difficult feelings. Sessions center on clear goals, practical steps, and learning skills that can be used between meetings. The tone is direct and supportive rather than clinical jargon.

Laura uses methods that emphasize connection and personal choice. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect present ones. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness practices to build steadying habits.

Clients come for a mix of short-term problem solving and deeper work. Common topics include coping with life changes, communication problems, codependency, and caregiver stress. She also works with people navigating abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and family of origin issues.

Her approach aims to strengthen self-understanding and day-to-day functioning. Sessions focus on practical tools, clearer communication, and building routines that support sleep, mood, and relationships. People leave with steps they can try between sessions.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness, and repeated reactions in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing thoughts and changing unhelpful patterns to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to steady attention and manage overwhelming feelings.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try an approach, and adjust as needed. Clients and therapist work together to pick techniques that feel useful and realistic for day-to-day life.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people practice skills in the settings where they live and relate, which can make the work feel more immediately useful.