Laurel Bonney
LCSW
Laurel (“Laurie”) Bonney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in
Connecticut with 25 years of experience in diverse clinical settings,
working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. She joined
Sterling Institute in 2017.
Connecticut with 25 years of experience in diverse clinical settings,
working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. She joined
Sterling Institute in 2017.
Laurie takes a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach,
focusing on building safe, supportive relationships where clients feel
comfortable, understood, and able to show up as they are. Her work is
collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs, drawing from
evidence-based modalities including CBT, DBT, and attachment-informed
and family systems approaches.
focusing on building safe, supportive relationships where clients feel
comfortable, understood, and able to show up as they are. Her work is
collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs, drawing from
evidence-based modalities including CBT, DBT, and attachment-informed
and family systems approaches.
She has extensive experience in adoption, foster care, family
preservation, and adolescent and family mental health, and has trained
with the Mary D. Ainsworth Child-Parent Attachment Clinic using the
Circle of Security model. Laurie’s clinical interests include trauma,
anxiety, depression, emotion regulation, grief and loss, communication,
and life transitions.
preservation, and adolescent and family mental health, and has trained
with the Mary D. Ainsworth Child-Parent Attachment Clinic using the
Circle of Security model. Laurie’s clinical interests include trauma,
anxiety, depression, emotion regulation, grief and loss, communication,
and life transitions.
Laurie holds an M.S.W. from the University of Maryland and a
B.A. from Northwestern University. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental
space that supports meaningful, lasting change.
B.A. from Northwestern University. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental
space that supports meaningful, lasting change.
