About Laura
Laura Chilson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses clear, practical conversation to help clients take manageable steps toward feeling steadier and more in control. She draws on five years of experience in clinical settings, social services, school counseling, and life coaching.
That mix of roles shaped a straightforward style. Sessions often center on skills you can use between meetings and on small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, including relationship strain, trauma and abuse recovery, parenting stress, depression, sleep problems, addiction issues, grief, bipolar mood challenges, and coping with life changes. Laura also commonly works with people facing compassion fatigue, abandonment or attachment issues, blended family difficulties, and long-term medical or immigration-related stress.
Her approach blends client-centered listening with methods drawn from attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and mindfulness. That means clients can expect both empathic listening and practical tools for thought patterns, emotion regulation, and relationships. Laura aims to tailor goals and the pace of work to each person’s needs.
She emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s unique background. If someone wants therapy that mixes emotional support with concrete skills, her sessions are set up to offer both.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and helps people notice patterns that repeat in partnerships or parenting. It can be useful for people struggling with trust, abandonment wounds, or repeating relationship cycles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It teaches practical exercises to reduce anxious thinking, improve sleep routines, and handle mood swings in day-to-day life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, current struggles, and preferences, then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments happen as the work progresses so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet when in-person care is hard to fit in. Video calls replicate a face-to-face session, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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