About Laura
Laura Small is a licensed mental health counselor based in Massachusetts. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. Her manner is warm and down-to-earth, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
She brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions and tailors the work to each person's needs. Laura uses practical conversation and clear tools rather than labels.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps people try different ways of responding. Her approach blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with humanistic and psychodynamic perspectives, plus rational-emotive elements. That means she will help a person notice unhelpful thoughts, name strong emotions, and trace how past experiences still affect current choices.
Plans are adjusted as progress is made. Laura has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care questions, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and communication problems. She also supports those dealing with cancer, codependency, and commitment worries.
Sessions focus on understandable goals and everyday skills. Laura encourages practical steps you can try between meetings, and she reviews what works and what needs changing. She offers straightforward guidance and steady support while you build new ways of coping.
How evidence-based methods work online
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide online work in clear, practical ways. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete coping skills. Humanistic-informed work centers on listening and validating your experience, helping people build self-awareness and self-worth through compassionate dialogue. A psychodynamic perspective looks at how past relationships and patterns influence current feelings and choices, which can be useful for attachment issues and repeated relationship problems.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps. You and the therapist decide together which techniques to use and how fast to move.
Online therapy here is offered through several formats to match life demands. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when a deeper check-in is needed. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let you send updates, try brief coping skills, or check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or tight schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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