About Laura
Laura Westbrook is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. She centers sessions on a warm, person-centered style that aims to make people feel accepted and understood right away. Laura uses everyday language, humor, and culturally relevant materials to keep work grounded and relatable.
She emphasizes the relationship between therapist and client as the foundation for change. Sessions usually involve listening, asking clarifying questions, and offering tools that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
Those tools can include mindfulness exercises, narrative work with personal stories, or practical steps to address substance use and coping skills. Laura has seven years of counseling experience, much of it in nonprofit settings focused on addictions and trauma. She has worked with people of diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ community members and people living with HIV and other chronic conditions.
Her experience includes supporting people through grief, major life changes, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms. Her training and background span Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Existential, Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing approaches. Laura explains ideas plainly and helps people pick techniques that make sense for them.
She encourages collaboration so the work aligns with the client’s goals and pace. Away from counseling, she enjoys low-key ways to cope with stress like watching favorite shows and funny animal videos. Those small comforts shape the relaxed, human tone she brings to sessions.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Attachment-Based Therapy views relationships as central to how people feel and function. Online sessions using this approach focus on identifying patterns from past relationships and trying new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and improve trust. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center and emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and listening. In remote sessions this means the therapist follows the person’s lead and helps clarify goals and next steps.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest approaches that fit. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust those choices as progress and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy going around work, caregiving, and other life demands.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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