About Laurel
Laurel Dietterle is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship struggles. She speaks plain, direct language and focuses on what matters to each person. Laurel aims to create a respectful, collaborative space where people can start to feel clearer and more steady.
She begins by asking what brought someone to therapy and what would make the work meaningful.
How Laurel works
Sessions often focus on improving communication, reducing self-criticism, and changing patterns that cause pain. Laurel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape practical steps you can try between sessions. Her approach blends empathy with active problem solving.
She values authenticity and works to align therapy with each person’s beliefs and goals. That may include building emotional awareness, learning coping tools, or practicing new ways of relating. Over six years in practice, Laurel has helped people address issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, avoidant personality traits, codependency, commitment and control issues, dissociation, eating and food-related struggles, and feelings of emptiness.
She also supports work around forgiveness, guilt and shame, communication problems, and coping with natural or human-caused disaster. Laurel asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling. Therapy sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and she works in English from her New York practice.
What Laurel works with
The areas below are the ones Laurel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Laurel Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Laurel draws from well-known, evidence-based approaches to guide her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. It helps with problem solving and changing patterns that keep people stuck.Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skill-building for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills are useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Laurel talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they choose which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and skills practice to an online setting so clients can apply tools between sessions and in everyday routines.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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