About Laura
Laura Rubenstein is an Illinois-licensed LCSW with 22 years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and other life transitions.
Background and approach
She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and adapts conversations and treatment plans to reflect individual needs and goals. Her practice emphasizes practical, client-centered work aimed at helping people move toward greater well-being.
Clients can expect a collaborative process in which the therapist listens first and then shapes interventions to fit the situation. Rubenstein recognizes that seeking help requires courage and offers steadiness and support throughout the therapeutic journey.
She attends to concerns such as depression, grief, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career issues, coping with life changes, ADHD, and LGBT-related matters while tailoring care to the unique context of each person.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Access to Care
Laura Rubenstein uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's situation. One common approach emphasizes practical problem solving and skills training to reduce stress and anxiety and improve daily functioning. Another focuses on trauma-informed care that prioritizes safety, stabilization, and gradual processing of difficult experiences to address the impacts of trauma and abuse.Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative work. The therapist will explore goals, preferences, and needs with clients and then recommend and adjust techniques so the plan fits how the client wants to progress. This collaborative process helps identify which evidence-based methods will be most useful for relationship issues, grief, self-esteem, ADHD-related challenges, and other concerns.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for scheduling and consistent access when in-person meetings are not possible. These formats allow clients to maintain regular contact, continue momentum between sessions, and choose communication styles that feel most comfortable while working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English