About Laura
Laura Bratley is a counsellor who uses a warm, client-centred approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She holds BACP registration and has three years of professional experience supporting individuals through hard times. Her style is straightforward and calm, which helps people feel heard and understood from the first session.
In sessions she creates an open space for thoughts and feelings to be talked through without judgement. She listens closely to what matters most and works with each person to set simple, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy are used when they fit the situation to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping. Laura also draws on techniques from dialectical behaviour therapy to help people regulate strong emotions and manage panic symptoms. She helps people build everyday routines and communication habits that reduce stress at work and at home.
She supports those dealing with grief, relationship difficulties, shame or life transitions by breaking problems into manageable steps. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change next. Therapy can include short exercises, reflective conversation and small behavioural experiments to practise between meetings.
Laura aims to make each session useful and easy to follow so people can notice steady progress. Her practice is based in the United Kingdom and sessions are conducted in English. People who are unsure what to expect are invited to try a short matching process to find the right format and pace.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor follows the person's lead, reflects what is said and helps people clarify what they want to change. This approach is useful for building trust and for working through grief or relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses short exercises and practical techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different responses, which can help with anxiety and panic symptoms.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving everyday coping. It teaches breathing and grounding practices, emotion regulation strategies and ways to handle difficult interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and propose options together. That means they can combine listening with practical tools so the plan fits the person's life and pace.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in without video. Live chat and messaging suit quick updates, reflections or people who prefer not to speak aloud. These formats help make regular contact easier to fit around work, family and day-to-day commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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