Laurie Snyder , LCSW

Laurie Snyder is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She focuses on women's issues within broader concerns like relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Laurie emphasizes collaboration and guides people toward clearer self-understanding and stronger emotional regulation.

Her approach blends cognitive psychodynamic ideas with body-based tools such as tapping and meditation. She uses these methods to help people calm intense emotions and process past wounds or current stress. The work often centers on reducing reactivity and building steadier coping skills.

Laurie spends a lot of time on relationship patterns. She helps people identify triggers, take clearer personal ownership, and speak so they are heard. Part of this work is reshaping old relational blueprints so intimacy can feel safer and closer over time.

She also addresses issues around self-worth, money and life purpose. Laurie supports clients who want to risk change, set intentions, and shift beliefs that limit them. That can include simple mindset work, practicing new behaviors, and learning ways to notice and reframe negative self-talk.

Spiritual viewpoints are woven into her practice when helpful. Laurie encourages present-moment awareness and non-attachment to outcomes as tools for moving through hard times. She aims to help people build self-trust, practical coping skills, and clearer direction for the next steps in life.

Approach and online options for emotional healing

Laurie uses cognitive psychodynamic ideas to look at how past patterns shape current feelings and relationships. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way and what to change to feel more stable and connected.

She also incorporates body-focused techniques such as tapping and meditation to reduce strong emotions and improve regulation. These practices can be useful for trauma reactions, panic, and stress because they provide concrete tools to calm the body and return to clearer thinking.

Finding the right combination of methods is part of the work. Laurie collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That means experimenting, adjusting, and agreeing on practical exercises to use between sessions.

Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or health limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat lets someone check in quickly, and text-based messaging supports short updates or exercises between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while maintaining steady progress.