About Laura
Laura Aiken is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who focuses on helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She meets people where they are and offers straightforward support for depression, relationship strain, and the aftermath of trauma and abuse. She prefers an individualized approach.
Sessions are adapted to a person's needs using practical techniques and conversations that aim to reduce overwhelm and build clearer choices. Laura draws on methods that help people notice patterns, regulate emotions, and make steady changes in daily life.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in addiction settings and collaborations with drug courts and a recovery home. That experience shaped a direct, problem-solving style and an appreciation for small steps that add up to lasting change. She brings five years of clinical experience to each case.
Therapy often begins by identifying immediate priorities and manageable goals. Techniques from client-centered work, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness are mixed depending on what a person finds helpful. Sessions may include skill practice, guided reflection, and short-term planning to reduce symptoms and improve coping.
Laura also addresses related concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation. Her practical focus is on usable tools and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and what matters most to them. It involves listening, reflecting, and helping someone find their own solutions for issues like anxiety or relationship stress.Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, includes skills for regulating intense emotions and improving relationships. It is practical work that teaches breathing, grounding, and communication skills for day-to-day coping.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness exercises that reduce reactivity and calm the body. These practices can help with worry, stress, and recurring negative thoughts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods together. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to the person's pace and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to attend sessions. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option when video isn't convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging let someone check in between sessions, get short coaching, or handle brief problems without a full session. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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