About Laura
Laura Brown is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works in a respectful, down-to-earth way and aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs.
She helps people who are coping with stress and anxiety and those facing depression or changes at work. She also supports people dealing with eating and food-related issues, body image concerns, addictions, grief, and sleeping difficulties.
Background and approach
Other areas she addresses include communication problems, anger, and compassion fatigue. Laura usually draws on client-centred methods that keep the person's own goals central. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot thoughts and behaviours that make problems worse.
Mindfulness practices and brief solution-focused work are available for people wanting practical tools and clearer steps forward. Sessions aim to be straightforward and paced to what each person needs. Conversations are plain and practical, with a focus on small, achievable changes and coping strategies for day-to-day life.
Laura emphasises respect, sensitivity and a non-judgemental attitude. To begin, someone completes the short matching questionnaire and then arranges sessions that suit their schedule. She accepts international clients and runs sessions in English using a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging.
How these approaches work online and in session
This counsellor commonly uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's goals, helping people to make choices and find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and testing small changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.Mindfulness techniques are also used to help people notice thoughts and sensations without judgement; these can be short exercises to reduce stress in everyday life. The counsellor will discuss which methods suit the person's situation and can combine elements from different approaches depending on need and preference.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will collaborate with the person to agree on goals and try methods that feel doable. If something does not fit, adjustments are made together to find a better match.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, real-time support or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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