About Laura
Laura Duffy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who helps people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, and mood concerns. She has nine years of clinical experience and uses a calm, nonjudgmental style that aims to make hard conversations easier to start. She focuses on practical goals that matter to the person in front of her.
Sessions often begin by identifying a few measurable steps a client wants to take.
Background and approach
Progress is tracked and plans are adjusted when needed so work feels relevant and doable. Her background includes work in community agencies and hospital programs across multiple levels of care. That experience informed her approach to substance use, co-occurring mental health concerns, and trauma.
She has also coordinated crisis intervention and supported people navigating severe and persistent mood and personality disorders. Therapeutic work draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and skills-based practices. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of the mix when clients want help with motivation, coping, or relapse prevention.
The focus is on teaching tools people can use between sessions. Laura emphasizes empowerment and compassion. She aims to help rebuild self-esteem and self-efficacy while reducing shame and isolation.
For many clients this means working step by step toward clearer routines, healthier coping, and firmer boundaries.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust so the person feels understood and supported; it helps when someone needs a steady, compassionate space to sort thoughts and choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) brings skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness that can reduce impulsivity and crisis reactions.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can make short check-ins or skills practice easier to fit into a busy day. These options aim to make regular therapy more flexible and easier to maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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