About Laura
Laura Akins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people regain calm and direction when life feels overwhelming. She draws on decades of experience to listen, reflect, and guide practical steps toward clearer thinking and greater emotional balance. Her style is relaxed and straightforward.
Sessions tend to feel like one person listening and responding to another. She uses clear questions and gentle challenge to help people notice patterns, try new habits, and reduce anxiety and stress.
Background and approach
Laura has worked for 34 years with concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, trauma and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing relationship struggles, self-esteem problems, compassion fatigue, and issues like abandonment or codependency. She mentions life purpose, first responder stress, and men's issues among the topics she addresses.
Her approach draws from practical methods such as acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused work, client-centered listening, and motivational interviewing. That mix helps people move from stuck patterns into more flexible responses. Laura's graduate research included spiritual development, and she is open to exploring spiritual resources when clients want that as part of their work.
She practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to commit to actions that align with personal values; this works well for anxiety, stress, and questions about life purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve problem-solving. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, giving people space to tell their story while the therapist reflects and helps them find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options, and try methods that fit your needs. If one approach does not help, she will adjust and try other techniques until the work feels productive.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deep conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is desired. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and pacing therapy across the week. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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