Laura Phillips, LCSW

Laura Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and midlife concerns. Her work emphasizes clear communication and practical steps people can take between sessions.

She favors a warm, listening-first style that centers the person's experience. Sessions aim to help people name what they are feeling, try small changes, and notice what helps. Laura uses straightforward tools so progress feels tangible and manageable.

Her background includes long-term practice with people facing trauma, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She also brings experience supporting those with ADHD, bipolar concerns, and caregiver or parenting stress. This range informs how she tailors conversations to each person's situation.

Therapy often includes paying attention to how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Laura draws on attachment ideas to look at patterns between people. She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and mindfulness practices to build steady coping skills.

People who do best in her office tend to want practical tools alongside personal reflection. She helps clients set realistic goals and works collaboratively on steps to meet them. To begin, readers are encouraged to use the site's Start Therapy flow and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule a session.

How her approaches translate to online work

Laura commonly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape emotions and behavior. This helps when people are trying to understand patterns in their closest relationships and how to change them. She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s experience and pace, so sessions focus on what matters most to the individual rather than a fixed agenda. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting.

Finding the right approach is usually a process rather than a single decision. Laura collaborates with each person to decide which combination of methods fits their goals, preferences, and current needs. She aims to make adjustments as progress unfolds, checking in about what is or isn’t helpful.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use mindfulness exercises or behavioral tasks in real-life settings and then talk about how they worked in the next session.