Laurie Agnello

Walking into a first session with Laurie Agnello, clients often find that the conversation moves faster than they expected — not because anything is rushed, but because Laurie has a way of meeting people exactly where they are. Her background spans individual and family work, group settings, crisis intervention, and mediation, which means she has sat with a wide range of human struggle and knows how to hold it steadily.

Laurie holds an LMHC, a CASAC, and a permanent New York State school counselor certification (K–12), credentials she has built out through continuous coursework and workshops — particularly in substance use, where she keeps her approach current and evidence-grounded. She has worked across clinic and supervisory roles that exposed her to people from genuinely different circumstances: the teenager whose anxiety lives as much in the comment threads as in the classroom, the family that can’t get through dinner without a phone pulling someone away, the adult carrying trauma that has never had a name.

Her practice covers the full arc of difficulty — mood and depressive disorders, anxiety, eating disorders, personality and adjustment disorders, addiction, abuse, and more — serving children through elderly adults, men and women alike. Laurie offers sessions by video, making her accessible to anyone in New York ready to be heard.