About Laura
Laura Arstall is a counsellor who takes a person-centred approach to therapy. She focuses sessions around each person’s priorities and moves at the client’s pace. Laura explains options clearly and will adapt to a more solution-focused style if that better suits someone’s goals.
She trained on a Level 7 BACP accredited programme and holds BACP registration. Laura has around five years' experience and sees people remotely as well as in person while based in the United Kingdom.
Background and approach
Sessions usually follow what the client brings to the room. That can mean talking through stress, anxiety or low mood, or working on relationship and family concerns. Practical steps and clearer next actions are available when someone prefers a solution-focused style.
Laura has worked with people dealing with trauma, grief, addictions, eating and anger issues, and with those navigating gender and sexual identity questions. She also has experience supporting people with ADHD, autism and related neurodiversities, and with concerns such as attachment, adoption and foster care. Her manner is warm and straightforward.
She encourages people to build confidence and find ways to cope with life changes. If a different direction feels better, she says so and helps arrange that change so the work stays useful for the person involved.
How Laura’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience. The counsellor listens and follows what the client brings, helping them find their own solutions and build self-understanding. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood and issues around identity or relationships.Solution-Focused Therapy is more goal-directed. It looks for small, practical steps that can lead to change and is useful when someone wants shorter-term, action-oriented work for problems like stress or coping with life changes.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Laura will talk about options and tailor the style to a person’s needs, goals and preferences rather than imposing one way of working. That conversation continues as progress is reviewed and goals shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is helpful for deeper, face-to-face conversations, while phone calls can fit a shorter break in a busy day. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing written support between calls. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on what the person needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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