About Laura
Laura Lathan is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She aims to give a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can learn skills to manage intense emotions and day-to-day conflicts. She believes therapy is not about being fixed.
Instead she helps people build practical tools and understand their own experiences. Laura will work with parents who feel unsure about supporting a child while managing their own stress, offering clear strategies alongside emotional support.
Background and approach
In her practice she has supported people dealing with ADHD, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and behavioral challenges. That work has included attention to attachment issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, coping with separation, and struggles with impulsivity or isolation. Laura commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach ways of handling strong emotions and responding to stress with healthier actions. Her style is practical and collaborative. She mixes professional knowledge with each person's lived experience so clients learn tools that fit their life.
Laura aims to help people move forward at a pace they can manage.
How evidence-based skills translate to online care
Laura often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. CBT sessions focus on real-life thinking and behavior - identifying a thought, testing it, and practicing a different response to reduce anxiety or depressed mood.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills are brief, concrete tools people can practice between sessions to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then try strategies that fit those priorities. If something does not feel helpful, she adjusts the plan together with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls work well when a fuller conversation is needed, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats support quick check-ins or ongoing skill practice between appointments. This range of options helps people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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