About La
La Rue De Vries is an AASW social worker with seven years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain and trauma. She creates a calm and non-judgemental space where clients can speak honestly about what feels hard. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people take small steps forward.
Clients can expect practical conversation and collaborative problem solving. La Rue listens first, then helps identify patterns that keep problems active.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to notice unhelpful thinking and on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and next steps. Attachment-based ideas guide how she talks about close relationships and repeated hurt. Dialectical behaviour therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
Sessions are paced to suit each person, with a mix of short-term skills work and longer conversations when required. La Rue pays attention to everyday pressures like caregiving stress, chronic illness and isolation. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems and the emotional aftermath of separation.
Her work includes support for people working through guilt, shame and low self-esteem. She offers video, phone, live chat and text-based sessions for people in Australia. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for the client.
La Rue aims to help people find new ways of thinking, being and acting that fit their life.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
La Rue commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice strong thoughts and feelings, identify what matters to them, and take gradual action towards those values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each client about goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to use. That means sessions can shift over time as needs change or as new priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and non-verbal cues, phone can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for quick reflections or when someone prefers writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives, while still allowing skilled therapists to teach skills and support lasting change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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