About Laura
Laura Lee Adams is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She practices in Mississippi and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. Her approach treats each person as the expert in their own life and builds on their existing strengths.
She works with concerns like depression, relationship problems, grief, addiction, and sleep difficulties. She also supports those navigating parenting challenges, LGBT-related issues, and coping with big life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions address emotional reactions such as anger, low self-esteem, and feelings of emptiness alongside more complex concerns like trauma, bipolar symptoms, and attention difficulties. Her background includes long-term clinical work that emphasizes practical problem solving. In sessions she helps people identify small, manageable steps they can try between meetings.
She listens for patterns in relationships and behavior, then helps clients test new ways of coping that fit their daily lives. People can expect straightforward conversation and clear goals. Laura helps sort immediate worries and also plans for longer-term change.
She encourages clients to use their strengths while learning new skills for stress management and emotional regulation. Her practice is grounded in experience with a wide range of issues, from family and fertility concerns to first responder stress and codependency. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on realistic strategies for feeling better over time.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and stress care
Laura draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life skills and clear goals. One common approach emphasizes learning specific coping strategies for managing worry and panic, such as breathing exercises, thought tracking, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These methods help people reduce immediate distress and gain confidence tackling anxiety over time.Another approach centers on improving daily routines and sleep patterns, with concrete behavioral changes like structured activity scheduling, sleep hygiene, and problem-solving for barriers to rest. This is useful for people whose mood, energy, or focus are disrupted by poor sleep or irregular routines.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to a client's needs, try approaches that fit their goals, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process helps identify techniques that match the person's preferences and life circumstances.
Online formats make this kind of care flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation similar to in-person work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share brief updates, ask questions between sessions, or use written tools when speaking is difficult. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay connected over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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