About Laura
Laura Hawkins is a licensed master social worker in Michigan who helps adults facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and big life changes. She meets people who seem fine on the outside but feel overwhelmed, stuck in worry, or disconnected from themselves and others. Her sessions are practical and collaborative.
She uses structured exercises, clear skill-building, and creative ways to break patterns that keep someone stuck. The aim is to calm the nervous system, reduce overthinking, and return more moments of emotional steadiness.
Background and approach
Laura combines several evidence-based approaches so therapy focuses on what helps most for each concern. Work often includes learning tools to manage anxious thoughts, practicing new ways of communicating, and noticing attachment patterns that affect relationships. Sessions include short, doable skills you can try between meetings.
She has nine years of clinical experience and often supports people dealing with trauma, burnout, compulsive worrying, and relationship difficulties. Laura pays attention to safety and respect while encouraging steps toward change. If someone wants clearer boundaries, fewer panic moments, or more confidence after a life shift, Laura helps build a plan with specific steps.
The work is meant to feel active and focused, not only a place to talk. She invites clients to try new strategies and track what makes a real difference.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Laura draws from evidence-based techniques that map well to remote work. Cognitive-style approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and developing practical replacements to reduce anxiety and overthinking; these often include worksheets and short between-session exercises. Skills-based approaches teach concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help with relationship stress and impulse control. Attachment-focused work looks at relationship patterns and how early connection styles show up now, which can help when repairing communication and closeness.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan rather than sticking rigidly to one method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, brief live chat or text messaging works for quick check-ins or between-session coaching, and texting helps people fit therapy into busy days. These options make it easier to attend sessions from work, home, or while traveling and offer flexibility for different needs and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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