About Laurie
Laurie McNamara is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Delaware with five years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, career challenges, and ADHD. Laurie approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported. Laurie prefers straightforward, goal-oriented conversations. She works with clients to build clear, achievable plans and small habits that add up to real change.
Background and approach
Sessions often include problem-solving, goal setting, and skills practice tailored to daily life. She also uses coaching techniques to reinforce motivation and follow-through. Her background includes working with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and issues connected to first responder work.
Laurie adapts her approach when someone faces intellectual disability or is a young adult finding their path. She listens for strengths and past successes to build from them rather than starting over. Laurie draws on several therapeutic methods to guide sessions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns. Motivational Interviewing boosts readiness for change. Solution-Focused and Narrative techniques help clients clarify values and rewrite personal stories into more helpful ones.
People who do best with her tend to want practical steps, honest feedback, and steady encouragement. Laurie aims to make sessions useful each week and to help clients carry progress into everyday routines.
How Laurie Uses Focused Therapies Online
Laurie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions focus on practical exercises and homework that target daily routines and symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help someone build motivation for change. This method uses short, reflective conversations to strengthen commitment to goals such as career shifts, healthier habits, or managing ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Laurie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick methods and adjust them over time so the work fits the client’s life and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat or text is useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
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