About Laura
Laura Richardson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience in Florida. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or life changes. Her approach is straightforward and focused on what will make daily life easier.
She uses a client-centered style that places the person’s needs and goals first. That means sessions are shaped around what the client wants to address and at the pace they prefer.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, when used, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so small changes lead to clearer results. Laura often helps people build calming strategies for anger and stress. She supports those facing family and parenting tensions, substance concerns, or struggles with self-esteem.
She also works with issues related to trauma, grief, bipolar mood challenges, and career transitions. Over the years she has helped clients sort through attachment and abandonment worries, blended family adjustments, caregiver stress, and problems rooted in family of origin. Practical communication skills and clearer boundaries are common goals in her work.
Sessions are offered in English and provided from Florida. Laura encourages anyone feeling stuck to take the first step and talk through what matters most to them. Therapy is presented as a collaborative effort to build more manageable days and stronger coping skills.
How client-centered care and CBT work online
Laura uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person’s goals at the center of each session. That means conversations follow what matters most to the client and pace is set together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and changing patterns in thoughts and behaviors that keep people feeling stuck, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood shifts.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Laura collaborates with each person to decide whether client-centered support, CBT techniques, or a mix will be most helpful based on their needs and goals. She adjusts methods as progress is made so the plan stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, ongoing support, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping work focused on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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