About Laura
Laura Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life transitions. Her manner is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making difficult topics easier to talk about.
Clients meet a therapist who listens without judgment and matches tools to real-life needs. Sessions use plain language and practical steps rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Laura aims to help people build skills that fit their daily routines. Her background includes long-term work with trauma recovery, grief, and addiction concerns. She also supports people managing eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, ADHD, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder.
This breadth comes from many years in clinical settings and community work. Therapeutic work often blends approaches to suit the person in front of her. She draws on cognitive and acceptance-based methods plus emotion-focused techniques to address thought patterns and relationship pain.
The goal is clearer choices, steadier emotions, and better coping when life gets hard. People who want a practical, collaborative process tend to do well with her style. She helps parents handle parenting strain and people facing separation or divorce.
Sessions are tailored so progress feels relevant and manageable.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, and then commit to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches concrete skills to change behaviors and reduce anxious or depressive symptoms. It is useful for panic, social anxiety, and obsessive thinking. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotional patterns in close relationships and helps people reconnect and express needs more clearly; it can help with intimacy-related issues and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust when something is not working. That means testing tools in session and choosing the mix that best fits goals, rhythms, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows a fuller face-to-face conversation while phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or to fit a quick check-in during a break. Live chat or messaging can support short updates, skill practice between sessions, or care that fits a busy schedule. These options are meant to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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