About Laura
Laura Calabro is an HCPC registered counsellor with 14 years of professional experience. She trained and practised in the NHS in the United Kingdom for four years and worked in Italy for nine years. Laura speaks English and Italian and accepts international clients.
She helps people facing anxiety, stress and depression. She also supports those dealing with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and motivation, and struggles around intimacy and grief.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals. Laura blends psychodynamic ideas with practical skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. She also uses trauma-focused work and EMDR when appropriate.
This mix lets her address how past experiences affect current feelings while also teaching concrete coping strategies. In sessions she aims to be respectful, sensitive and compassionate. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what feels most useful to the person in front of her.
She encourages small, manageable steps and checks in regularly about what is working. People who prefer a blend of talking about life history and learning real-time skills often find this approach helpful. Laura works to create clear, collaborative plans so people know what to expect and how progress might look.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Laura commonly uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and EMDR as part of her online practice. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy teaches practical skills such as distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness to help manage intense feelings and reduce anxiety. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing focuses on processing traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming and can reduce the emotional charge linked to past events.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your history, goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods to try first. Plans are reviewed and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing reflection or when a written format feels easier. These options help people access continuity of care and fit sessions around work, travel or busy family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian
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