About Laura
Laura Hopf is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Washington. She moved into counseling as a second career and has spent six years helping adults and teens manage stress and anxiety. Her work covers mood concerns, trauma, and relationship struggles with a focus on practical steps.
She has provided individual and group therapy in community mental health and day treatment settings. That includes work in intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs where she supported people through harder transitions.
Background and approach
This background informs her ability to help with crisis follow-up and structured treatment plans. Laura uses a range of approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior ideas, plus mindfulness and solution-focused techniques.
Sessions aim to be warm, nonjudgmental, and goal oriented so people can see change and feel safer in day-to-day life. In sessions she helps people build coping skills for panic, sleep problems, grief, and substance concerns. She also addresses attachment, abandonment wounds, body image, and caregiver stress when those issues come up.
Her style mixes skill teaching with chances to reflect on patterns and relationships. Laura invites collaboration on goals and plans treatment to fit real life. She supports work toward symptom relief, better coping, or deeper insight depending on what a person wants.
Her practical emphasis is on tools people can use between sessions.
Approach and online options for anxiety and stress
Laura often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep anxiety or depression going. CBT focuses on clear steps and homework that target specific symptoms like panic attacks or sleep problems.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT skills teach ways to handle intense feelings, reduce impulsive reactions, and improve communication when relationships feel strained.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit their needs and goals, adjusting methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility to make that collaboration practical. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or short coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain continuity when travel or work schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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