Laura Lekocevic

Laura Lekocevic is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New Jersey with 14 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or struggles with self-esteem. Laura aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported. She creates an open, nonjudgmental space for people to share thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on practical ways to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Conversations often include identifying patterns in thinking and behavior and trying small changes between meetings. Laura uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are offered to address unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. Mindfulness practices are used to help ground attention and reduce reactivity. Her background includes helping people process trauma and abuse with approaches designed to reduce distress and increase safety in daily life. She also supports people facing relationship stress, communication problems, caregiver strain, and immigration-related concerns. Laura provides services in English and Spanish and works with adults on issues such as guilt and shame, loneliness, social anxiety, and life purpose. She encourages honest conversation about goals and practical steps toward a more satisfying life.

Approaches that guide online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person’s goals. The therapist creates a respectful space and helps people set priorities for change, which works well for feelings of loneliness, low self-worth, and relationship stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms and to change unhelpful behavior patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean starting with a client-centered conversation, adding CBT tools, or introducing mindfulness practices over time.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, remove commuting time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also supports continuing care when in-person visits are difficult, while the therapist and client together decide how to structure sessions for practical benefit.