Laurel Cooney, MBA, LICSW
Laurel Cooney is a clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice located in Norwich, Vermont, less than ten minutes from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Laurel works individually with adults ages 18-100+ to support them in attaining, restoring, and maintaining mental wellness.
Laurel grew up in the rural Sierra Nevada mountains of northeastern California. She earned her undergraduate degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where she studied history of philosophy, literature, mathematics, language, music, and science.
She went on to earn her Master of Social Work degree from Boston University in 2016 with a clinical concentration.
Laurel has been working in the field of mental health since 2013. She has worked in an array of settings providing therapeutic intervention in inpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment facilities, mandated criminal justice outpatient treatment programs, and in various outpatient clinical roles and settings. As a military spouse, she has years of experience living and working with active-duty military, vets, and their community affiliates.
In each of these settings and experiences, Laurel was challenged in new ways to best serve and support her clients by broadening and refining her clinical knowledge and skill, combined with her creativity, humor, intuition, compassion, and firm adherence to the ethical framework of Social Work.
An area of particular interest and specialization for Laurel’s clinical work has been developing and refining skills and interventions targeted to working with adult clients with ADHD.
As part of her ADHD work, Laurel founded and developed a therapeutic psycho-educational group curriculum for adults with ADHD, conducted educational presentations to clinical staff, and has provided neurodiversity consultation to health industry professionals.
Laurel earned her Master of Business Administration in 2021 from University of Maryland, Global Campus in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She obtained this degree in service of exploring and encouraging the adoption and development of entrepreneurial and business practices that effectively foster, and subsequently benefit from, a flourishing neurodiverse talent pool.
Laurel enjoys theater, music, art, history, riding her bike, and spending time keeping up with and admiring her rambunctious children, 2 dogs, and 2 cats.
Laurel is a member of the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD).
Laurel is currently a fellow at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.