About Laurel
Laurel Meine is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 30 years of experience in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and grief. Her work centers on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
Over her career she has supported people through big transitions and long-term struggles. Sessions often begin by identifying immediate concerns and simple strategies to reduce overwhelm. She uses clear, straightforward language and helps clients set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Laurel draws on client-centered methods to make sessions collaborative and respectful of each person's pace. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to notice unhelpful thinking and replace it with more workable habits. Emotionally-focused ideas are brought in when relationships and attachment patterns are central to the concern.
She also addresses issues such as abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and substance use. Laurel pays attention to how several problems can overlap and affect daily functioning. She helps people prioritize what to tackle first and how to measure progress.
Laurel aims to create a calm, accepting space where people can talk through hard feelings and try new ways of coping. Her style is steady and practical, focused on making change feel possible one step at a time.
How Laurel's approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. In this approach the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client set the agenda. It is useful when someone needs a respectful space to sort feelings and make choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online sessions use practical exercises and simple homework to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, and behavior patterns like problematic substance use.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laurel will discuss options with each person and choose the mix that fits their needs and goals. The plan is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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