About Laurie
Laurie Ford is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She combines faith-informed perspectives with practical therapeutic work to help people manage stress and anxiety. Laurie focuses on helping people rebuild after loss, navigate relationship strains, and strengthen self-esteem.
She offers straightforward, goal-oriented support for common concerns like depression, trauma, and coping with life changes. Sessions often involve talking through current struggles, looking at patterns that keep people stuck, and trying new ways to respond.
Background and approach
Laurie also addresses compassion fatigue and caregiver stress for those feeling worn down by caregiving roles. Laurie draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address specific problems such as abandonment wounds, attachment issues, body image, and codependency. She works with individuals on practical skills for communication, setting boundaries, and managing impulses.
Her approach blends emotional processing with action steps clients can use between sessions. Clients who bring grief, forgiveness questions, or struggles with identity will find a space to name those losses and make sense of them. Laurie helps people explore guilt, shame, and the aftermath of abuse in manageable steps.
She also supports fathers and parents who want clearer direction around parenting and blended family issues. With six years of practice as an LCMHC, Laurie aims to provide compassionate, faith-aware care while keeping work grounded and concrete. She meets with people by video, phone, live chat, or text so therapy can fit busy lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Laurie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on symptom relief and skill building. One approach emphasizes practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on processing trauma and grief in small steps, helping people name difficult emotions and gradually work through painful memories.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, personal values, and what feels most helpful, then adapt techniques as progress is made. Clients help shape the plan so sessions stay relevant to their daily lives and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people share thoughts in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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