About Laura
Laura Kirk is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. She brings three years of clinical practice alongside many years supporting people in mental health roles. Laura aims to build a trusting space where clients can notice what they feel and begin to change how they respond.
She often works somatically, helping people connect with sensations in the body to find the emotions underneath.
Background and approach
This can be useful when anxiety, trauma or grief feels stored as tension or overwhelm. Laura combines gentle body-based noticing with calm regulation techniques so people can settle and think more clearly. Her background includes long experience as a support worker in mental health settings before training to practise as a psychotherapist.
She is registered with the BACP, which she lists as her credential. Her practice reflects work with anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and relationship concerns, plus related challenges such as sleep problems and self-esteem. Laura also has experience supporting people with ADHD, autism, bereavement and perimenopause or menopause changes.
She describes herself as neurodivergent and draws on that perspective in sessions when helpful. She aims to be empathic, grounded and honest while encouraging clients to notice their strengths. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps.
Laura emphasises collaboration - clients remain in control of their journey while she offers support, reflection and challenge where it will help progress.
Approaches that combine talking and body awareness
Laura uses client-centred work to place the person’s experience at the heart of therapy. This means sessions begin with the client’s concerns and priorities, and the counsellor follows the client’s pace to explore what matters most. Somatic therapy focuses on what the body is signalling - noticing tension, breath or sensations to trace feelings linked to anxiety, trauma or grief. Trauma-focused therapy addresses the effects of past distress by helping people process upsetting memories and responses in manageable steps.Choosing the right approach is part of working together. Laura will discuss different methods with clients and adapt the mix of talking, body awareness and trauma-focused techniques based on needs, goals and preferences. The process is collaborative so people keep control while the therapist offers guidance and challenge where useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for this kind of work. Video calls let the therapist observe facial expression and body cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use somatic noticing and regulation skills across daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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