Laurie White, LSCSW

Laurie White is a licensed social worker in Kansas. She holds an LSCSW and brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice. Laurie focuses on practical support for people facing major life stresses and changes. She aims to make first steps toward change feel manageable and real.

Laurie helps people who are coping with addictions, family conflict, and trauma and abuse. She also addresses parenting challenges, grief, and relationship strain. Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday strategies that can be used between meetings.

Her approach draws on attachment-based methods to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices are added when emotion regulation and stress management are priorities.

Laurie shapes the work around each person’s needs. Conversations and plans are adjusted as progress is made. She aims for practical steps, not abstract theory, so people leave sessions with actions to try.

Laurie works with issues such as anxiety, depression, anger, ADHD, sleep problems, and career stress. She also supports people facing codependency, communication problems, and the fallout from separation or divorce. Her goal is to help people find safer ways of coping and clearer choices moving forward.

How Laurie’s approaches translate to online work

Laurie combines attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral techniques to address relationship patterns and daily thinking habits. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early connections shape how people relate now and helps identify new ways to connect and respond. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce distress.

She also uses dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness practices when emotion regulation or stress management is needed. DBT skills teach ways to tolerate strong emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness helps people notice their reactions and choose calmer responses instead of reacting automatically.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Laurie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress happens.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific session formats before booking since the profile does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten commute time, or allow for a quicker check-in during a work break. Different formats have practical tradeoffs such as camera use, bandwidth needs, or how long a session lasts, and those details can be discussed when scheduling.