About Laura
Laura Nagy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 30 years of experience in mental health. She uses a client-centered, solution-focused style that asks the person to set their goals while she provides guidance and practical tools. Her approach is straightforward and aims to help people take steps between sessions to make steady progress.
Over three decades she has worked with stress and anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She has supported people dealing with grief, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and problems with eating or sleeping. Her work also covers career strain, parenting challenges, intimacy-related worries, and coping with life changes. Laura draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the client's needs.
She often suggests short exercises or between-session work to build new habits and skills. The focus is on practical change and on recognizing strengths that helped someone reach out for help. Sessions emphasize clear goals, homework when useful, and finding or strengthening a natural support system.
Laura aims to empower people to manage difficult feelings and to move toward greater calm and functioning. Her style is warm, direct, and steady, offering structure for people who want concrete steps. She lives in Michigan and brings experience from crisis counseling and work with PTSD and suicidal ideation.
The emphasis is on collaboration and on creating a personal set of tools that can be used long after therapy ends.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's goals and experience, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client's lead to identify what matters most. This approach helps people who need someone to listen and then support goal-setting and personal growth.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and depression going. It uses clear techniques such as thought records and behavioral experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with sleep, worry, and mood problems.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then recommend methods that fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on progress and feedback so the work stays relevant to the person's needs.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options offer flexibility in scheduling and let people use the format that best supports their daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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