About Laura
Laura Walls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel more confident and clear about their next steps.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Laura has worked in many counseling settings with adults facing life transitions, caregiving strain, and midlife changes. She often helps people who struggle with self-esteem, social anxiety, workplace stress, grief, and trauma-related concerns.
She also addresses issues like sleep problems, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. In session she listens without judgment and helps people identify small, workable changes. Practical tools and simple experiments are used between meetings to build momentum.
Many clients focus on improving communication, managing mood swings, and coping with big life changes. Her style combines empathy with clear steps. She emphasizes understanding attachment patterns, practicing mindfulness skills, and using cognitive strategies to reduce worry.
The goal is to build skills that make daily life feel more manageable and meaningful.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Laura blends attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change patterns that fuel anxiety and relationship stress. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current reactions and helps people notice and shift those patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce worry and low mood.She also uses a client-centered stance that prioritizes the person's goals and pace. Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will ask about your needs and preferences and adjust techniques as you go, so the plan fits what you want to accomplish.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or times with lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short updates, planning homework, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around life and work schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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