About Laura
Laura Pascal is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey with 20 years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, grief, and big life changes. She writes plainly, listens closely, and focuses on practical steps that clients can try between sessions. Her style aims to make therapy feel approachable for someone juggling work, family, and everyday pressures.
Clients often come for help with depression, relationship strain, or parenting challenges. Laura also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness, career questions, and feelings of isolation.
Background and approach
She draws on several therapy approaches to match the work to each person’s needs. In sessions she uses client-centered methods to follow the person’s lead and build on strengths. Cognitive behavioral ideas help identify patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to anxiety or low mood.
Mindfulness practices are offered as simple tools to manage stress in daily life. Laura takes a collaborative stance and helps people set clear, doable goals. She mixes short-term problem-solving with deeper conversational work about values and life purpose.
Progress is measured by changes people notice in their day-to-day functioning. Her background includes long-term clinical experience across many concerns including compassion fatigue, first responder issues, LGBT-related stress, and aging or caregiver issues. Sessions are offered in English and serve adults seeking to better manage emotions, relationships, and life transitions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the individual, offering empathy and support while people talk through concerns like anxiety, grief, or role strain. This approach helps clients feel heard and encourages practical next steps based on their priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions can help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns, try small behavior experiments, and track changes over time to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices for attention and stress reduction. These techniques are easy to practice between sessions and can help with day-to-day anxiety, sleep disruption, and moment-to-moment overwhelm.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what seems most useful, then adapt methods as the work unfolds. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted over time.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between appointments or plan shorter, focused exchanges. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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