About Laura
Laura Sternberg is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma, and life changes. She creates a calm, straightforward space where people can talk about what feels most urgent and start practical steps toward feeling steadier. She listens for what matters most to each person and adapts her approach to match those needs.
Sessions often include working on coping skills for panic, worry, and low mood.
Background and approach
She also helps people manage career strain, grief, and relationship pressures. Laura uses a mix of therapies to guide sessions. She draws on mindfulness to slow down intense emotions and narrative work to help people make sense of their stories.
For trauma she uses methods designed to reduce the hold of painful memories and move toward healing. Her style is direct but compassionate. She helps people set small, doable goals and tries to keep therapy practical and relevant to daily life.
She also addresses issues like self-esteem, addiction, caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation. With eight years of experience as an LPC, she brings steady clinical experience without jargon. People who meet with her can expect clear conversation about what to try next and check-ins about whether those steps are helping.
Therapy is offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Laura often uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice and step back from strong feelings. Mindfulness involves simple exercises in attention and breathing that can reduce reactivity and support calmer decision-making. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma-related distress; this approach focuses on reducing the emotional intensity of painful memories so daily life becomes easier to manage.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their history, current goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and a face-to-face rhythm, while phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing reflections between sessions, and people who prefer typed conversation. These options make it simpler to fit support into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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