About Laura
Laura Craven is an integrative counsellor who uses a mix of evidence-based techniques to help with anxiety and related concerns. She brings a straightforward, warm approach to sessions and focuses first on building trust and respect. Her aim is to create a working relationship where the person feels able to talk and be heard.
Laura works in a flexible way, drawing on talking, creative tools and simple psychoeducation. Sessions might include talking things through, journalling, mindfulness exercises or learning about how stress affects thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
The shape of therapy is agreed together so it fits the individual's needs. She has three years' experience and has supported people coping with grief and loss, trauma and domestic violence. Laura also helps with work-related stress, low mood, relationship problems and issues around self-esteem.
Other areas she can address include attachment and caregiving stresses, chronic illness, body image and communication difficulties. Laura holds BACP and NCPS credentials, listed as BACP and NCPS. She works with people across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients.
Sessions are offered in English using a range of online formats to suit different schedules. If someone is unsure what to expect, Laura encourages an initial conversation to agree goals and the best way to work together. She aims to treat people with sensitivity and respect while helping them take practical steps forward.
Integrative approaches for online wellbeing
Integrative counselling blends different evidence-based techniques to suit each person's needs. One common strand is mindful awareness exercises, which involve short breathing and grounding practices to reduce immediate stress and help with anxiety management. These techniques can be useful when worries feel overwhelming and when someone wants tools to calm their body and mind.Another helpful element is psychoeducation and reflective talking. This means explaining how stress and mood affect thinking and behaviour, and then talking things through to spot patterns. It helps people make sense of what they are experiencing and try small practical changes between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor collaborates with the person to decide which methods to try based on their goals, preferences and day-to-day realities. This is a shared process and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats offer real practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports short check-ins and text messaging can suit people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while accessing registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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