About Laura
Laura Disley is a BACP counsellor who focuses on stress and anxiety among other concerns. She believes people hold strengths that help them through hard times. She offers a calm, supportive space for someone wanting change.
Seeking help is a brave first step and she aims to make it easier to take that step. With ten years of experience in the United Kingdom, Laura helps people manage relationship strain, grief, depression and addiction-related worries.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing career stress, caregiving challenges, and changes like separation or illness. Her work includes a wide range of issues such as body image, communication problems and coping with life transitions. Laura adopts a person-centred style that keeps the client's perspective central.
She uses solution-focused tools to set clear goals and practical steps. Mindfulness techniques are introduced to help with ongoing worry and sleep difficulties. In sessions she brings a steady, respectful approach and listens for each person’s priorities.
Motivational Interviewing elements help people find internal motivation when making difficult changes. Existential ideas are used when clients want to explore meaning, values and life direction. People can expect straightforward conversation and concrete actions to try between sessions.
Laura describes work as collaborative – she and the client decide what to try next. Her aim is to help people build coping skills and clearer ways of moving forward.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Laura combines client-centred work with solution-focused techniques to create short-term, actionable plans. Client-Centred Therapy means she listens closely to what matters most to the person and follows their lead to set priorities and goals. Solution-Focused Therapy uses small, concrete steps and questions that help people identify what is already working and build on it.She also draws on mindfulness methods to help with ongoing worry and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple breathing and attention practices that people can use between sessions to reduce rumination and notice emotional patterns. These approaches suit worries like anxiety, stress and coping with life changes while keeping the work practical and tailored to the individual.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which strategies fit their needs, goals and preferences. That means adjusting pace, trying different tools and agreeing what to focus on for the next session.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy around work and family. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins and messaging supports ongoing touchpoints between sessions. These formats give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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