About Laura
Laura Duncan is a Licensed Master Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers calm, practical support and listens closely to what each person needs. Her style is straightforward and focused on small, useful steps people can try between sessions.
She uses approaches that center the client and strengthen attachment and coping. That means she pays attention to how relationships and past experiences shape reactions today.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and reflection on patterns that get in the way of feeling better. Laura has nine years of clinical experience working with concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, body image, and caregiver stress. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and career or intimacy-related worries.
Her experience includes helping people through blended family issues, adoption and foster care topics, and difficult medical situations like chronic illness or cancer. Her methods draw from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. In practice that looks like talking through patterns, testing small behavior changes, and noticing thoughts and feelings without judgment.
She encourages practical tools that fit into everyday life. Laura practices from Michigan and offers sessions in English. She works with people who want collaborative, skill-oriented therapy and who prefer a calm, relational approach to change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try new ways of connecting and trusting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical skills to test unhelpful thoughts and change actions that maintain anxiety or depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past experiences, and what methods feel useful. Together they will adapt techniques from different approaches to fit needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief exchanges or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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