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Laurie White, LSCSW

  • Experience8 years
  • LocationKansas
  • Focus areasADHD, Addictions, and Relationship
  • Therapy approachesAttachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Laurie

Laurie White is a Kansas-licensed clinical social worker (LSCSW) with eight years of professional experience helping people navigate substance use, relationship strains, trauma, parenting challenges, and a wide range of emotional concerns.

Background and approach

She draws on a background supporting clients through anxiety, depression, grief, anger, sleep problems, and ADHD-related struggles, offering practical strategies alongside empathetic listening. Her approach emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion, with care plans shaped to each person’s situation and goals.

Laurie blends evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies with attachment-focused and client-centered work to address patterns in relationships and coping. She prioritizes collaboration, adapting conversational style and interventions to fit what each client needs in order to move toward greater functioning and well-being.

How Laurie’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Laurie commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based therapy into her work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, offering practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address addictions. Attachment-based therapy explores patterns in relationships and emotional bonds, helping clients rework long-standing relational responses and improve trust and communication.

Choosing the right approach often evolves through collaboration. Laurie works with clients to clarify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, adjusting methods over time so therapy matches each person’s needs rather than following a fixed formula.

Online sessions make this collaborative work accessible through a range of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options allow for flexible scheduling and steady continuity of care when in-person visits are difficult, while still supporting skill-building, reflection, and the therapeutic relationship with licensed professionals.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns can Laurie address in therapy?
She works with a broad range of issues including addictions, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, stress and anxiety, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, depression, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related concerns.
What therapeutic style does she use?
Her style combines client-centered empathy with structured methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, dialectical behavioral elements, and attachment-based work to help clients build insight and practical coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Laurie has eight years of professional practice experience supporting people across a variety of emotional and behavioral challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she licensed?
She holds the credential LSCSW and is licensed in Kansas with the registration KS LSCSW LSCSW 05679.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Laurie provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

AddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issues

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyLGBTGriefSleeping disordersAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSocial anxiety and phobiaYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

8+ years

Licensed

Kansas

Languages

English

What Laurie can help with

Laurie White works with clients on addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, and parenting issues.

Laurie works with clients coping with addictions, family conflicts, and trauma and abuse.

Laurie works with parenting issues.

How Laurie approaches therapy

Laurie's clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy.

Experience and training

Laurie is an LSCSW practicing in Kansas.