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- Communication skills
- Body image work
- Attachment focus
About Laurie
LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) in California with 25 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and family strain. Laurie Aldrich focuses on improving communication and building self-esteem. She works with women on body image, attachment issues, and pregnancy and childbirth transitions. Sessions are offered in English.
Laurie frames sessions around listening and practical conversation. She helps people talk through difficult feelings and improve how they relate to others. That can mean practicing clearer communication, identifying patterns that lower self-esteem, or sorting out relationship conflicts.
She also supports parents facing the emotional load of caring for children with special needs, including moments of compassion fatigue. Laurie helps people notice recurring relationship themes and links between past experiences and current struggles.
Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's own perspective, psychodynamic ideas about how earlier life shapes present patterns, and narrative and Jungian approaches that consider life stories and symbols. These approaches inform how she asks questions and reflects patterns back to clients.
Laurie aims for a collaborative process. She helps clients set goals, try new ways of communicating, and track changes between sessions. People who prefer thoughtful conversation about personal meaning and relationship patterns may find this style useful.
To begin, use the site’s matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time and costs vary with location.
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How her approaches shape online sessions
Laurie uses client-centered work to focus on each person’s concerns and experience. That means sessions begin with the client’s priorities and proceed at a pace that feels manageable. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, and relationship problems.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at repeated relationship patterns and how past experiences influence current behavior. That can help when someone wants to understand why certain reactions keep happening. Narrative and Jungian elements are used to examine the stories people tell about themselves and the symbols or themes that recur in their lives, which can be helpful for questions of life purpose and identity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying different angles in early sessions and adjusting as progress and priorities become clearer.
Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and permit continuity when schedules change. They also allow for shorter check-ins when time is limited and let conversations continue without needing travel, which can help keep momentum between appointments.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
25+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, self-esteem, and related issues such as attachment and body image.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a collaborative, conversational approach drawing on client-centered, psychodynamic, narrative, and Jungian ideas to explore patterns and personal meaning.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience supporting people through relationship, mood, and life-transition concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) practicing in California.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How do sessions and cost work?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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