Laura Brown

Laura Brown is a LICSW, LCSW, CSW with 16 years of clinical experience and a New York practice. She focuses on parenting, self esteem, career concerns, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She also works with life purpose questions and related family and caregiver stresses.

Laura frames clients as the experts in their own stories. She listens for strengths and helps people use those strengths to handle challenges. Sessions are straightforward and practical, concentrating on what is happening now and what people want to change.

Her approach draws on a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and narrative methods. That means she pays attention to how people tell their stories, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns, and supports more useful ways of acting. Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants help finding the energy to make a change.

In practice Laura helps people untangle career doubts, re-evaluate parenting pressures, and manage the emotional fallout from separation, caregiving demands, or sudden life events. She works through issues such as guilt, shame, isolation, and control struggles in plain language and with concrete steps.

People meet with her to talk about midlife questions, fertility-related stress, blended family problems, first responder strain, and family of origin concerns. She asks practical questions, offers focused exercises, and checks in about what is working between sessions.

Approaches used in online sessions and practical fit

Laura uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s concerns and priorities, encouraging people to describe their goals and values in their own words. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to try small, practical experiments that can change how someone feels and acts. Existential therapy helps when clients are facing big life questions about meaning or direction, offering a space to name choices and responsibilities.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss options and decide together which methods best match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process often starts with practical steps and adjusts as progress is observed.

The therapist’s online practice requires confirming current session options before booking. Please check which formats are offered when you schedule. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, and reduce travel time. If video is not ideal, alternatives may be available depending on the practice; confirm the exact options before you book.