Laura Gryniewich-Franklin

Laura Gryniewich-Franklin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) based in Maryland. She brings nearly 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Her approach is calm and straightforward, and she focuses on building a respectful, non-judgmental relationship with each person she meets.

Laura draws on practical methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. She also uses a person-centered stance that emphasizes listening and collaboration. Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, learning small skills, and testing changes between meetings.

Her experience spans outpatient therapy, in-home work with children and families, school settings, and medical social work. That background informs routine concerns such as parenting stress, caregiver burden, workplace issues, grief, and relationship communication problems. She also works with issues like codependency, fertility-related stress, and compassion fatigue.

Laura aims to make therapy approachable and practical. She helps clients set focused goals and track small steps forward. Conversations are direct but compassionate, and both short-term problem solving and longer-term self-reflection are options.

People interested in starting are invited to use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability. Sessions are offered in English and she does not work with international clients.

CBT and Mindfulness for Online Support

Laura uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so a person can test small changes and see what helps with anxiety, depression, or workplace stress.

She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach present-moment awareness and simple practices for managing stress and emotional reactivity. Mindfulness can help with grief, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue by building steady attention and self-kindness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide whether CBT, mindfulness, a blend of both, or a more person-centered way of meeting is best. Goals, life demands, and personal preferences guide that choice and the pace of change.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, avoid travel time, and use shorter check-ins when needed. A therapist can suggest exercises to practice between meetings and adapt tools to everyday routines so progress continues outside sessions.