Laura Jean George

I hope to get to know you, and we consider your options and look for solutions to life's challenges, including transitions, stress, and anxiety, and the particular work and life stress you hope to address. The approaches I use are cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, relational, and strength-based. We decide on how we might approach your specific goal, which can be dealt with in a few sessions; other times the problem has more complicated dynamics, and needs to be addressed over a longer period of time.

At the start, I hope to get to know you. We can discuss tailored practices, resources, and mindfulness techniques for the challenge in front of you. The stance is collaborative, and the aim is a better understanding of yourself.

I work with individuals. The ages I see are adults and elders. The concerns that fit are relationship issues, anxiety, coping skills, stress, life transitions, mood, and parenting. Anger, conflict, and adjustment to retirement are part of the same work. I put a great deal of value on helping you make decisions about the direction your life will take in a complicated world. The work suits you if you want us to look at how you relate to people and situations, including how you relate to me.

I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in the District of Columbia. In the session I bring a collaborative stance: we look at how you relate, we analyze it, and we build a plan that fits your needs and values, with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness interventions.

I have worked in west Africa. I am on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. I published in Psychoanalytic Social Work in 2011 and in 2015. The clinical work itself is individual therapy for relationship issues, anxiety, stress, and life transitions.