About Laureen
Laureen Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She brings two decades of experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Laureen speaks plainly and encourages clients to notice their own strengths as they work through problems.
Laureen centers the client's perspective and treats each person as the expert on their own life. She listens for the small patterns that drive big reactions and helps people name what is happening.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to turn overwhelming feelings into manageable next steps that can be practiced between sessions. Her work covers a range of concerns including relationship strains, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and mood concerns such as depression and panic. She also addresses communication problems, control issues, and workplace stress.
Laureen supports people dealing with guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Sessions are goal-oriented and focused on what will help a person feel steadier in day-to-day life. Laureen helps clients develop tools for handling panic attacks, reducing social anxiety, and managing stress reactions.
She also offers guidance around separation and forgiveness when those issues arise. Laureen is based in North Carolina and brings 20 years of clinical experience to her work. She encourages anyone who is feeling stuck to take the small step of reaching out and exploring whether therapy could be helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Laureen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach helps people learn to notice and change the thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety and panic; this can reduce the frequency of intense reactions and improve daily functioning. Another strand of work focuses on processing reactions to trauma and loss by creating a safe pace for remembering and making meaning, which can ease intrusive memories and persistent distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Laureen collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, pace, and comfort. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable in everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging allow shorter check-ins or on-the-go support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep treatment consistent even when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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