About Laurie
Laurie ODonoghue is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps to ease stress and anxiety and on everyday struggles like parenting, work pressures, and low self-esteem. Laurie uses a calm, respectful approach that aims to help people feel heard and understood.
She creates an open space where people can talk about what matters to them without feeling judged.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and direct, with focus on what someone needs right now. Laurie helps clients sort through priorities, build confidence, and find clearer direction at home and at work. Her style is collaborative.
She listens, asks questions, and helps set realistic goals. Then she and the client choose small, manageable steps to try between sessions. Over time those steps add up and help people notice real shifts in daily life.
Laurie recognizes that starting therapy can feel hard. She aims to make that first step easier by offering steady support and plainspoken guidance. Her work centers on respect, sensitivity, and practical problem solving.
People who prefer straightforward conversation and clear action plans often find her approach useful. Laurie encourages progress at a pace that fits each person's life and responsibilities.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Laurie works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and real-life changes. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice clearer, more balanced thinking to reduce anxiety and stress. This method is practical and aims to change day-to-day reactions more than to dwell on past events.Another approach centers on building routines and small behavioral changes to improve motivation, confidence, and focus. It breaks larger goals into short, doable tasks and tracks progress over time, which can help with career challenges, parenting demands, and ADHD-related struggles.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Laurie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit their life. The plan can be adjusted as work progresses so techniques match what actually helps.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth or cameras are limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins between appointments. These options offer flexibility so people can continue care amid work, errands, or family responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English