About Laurie
Laurie Metje is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington who helps people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, and changes in life. She focuses on practical support for mood concerns, eating struggles, low self-esteem, relationship strain, and grief. Laurie uses straightforward, compassionate guidance to help people take the first steps toward feeling better.
She frames therapy around each person's story and strengths. Laurie listens closely and helps clients set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills you can use between appointments, such as emotion regulation and coping strategies for overwhelming moments. Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Dialectical Behavior Therapy for building emotional resilience. Laurie also uses client-centered methods to keep the focus on what matters most to the individual.
Mindfulness practices are offered to help manage stress and stay grounded during difficult emotions. After nine years in the field Laurie has seen many common patterns that make daily life harder. She aims to make therapy clear and accessible, avoiding jargon and offering concrete steps.
The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes. People often come for help with addiction, career challenges, parenting strain, anger, or personality-related concerns. Laurie supports people as they explore options, learn new habits, and build routines that fit their lives.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort level.
How Laurie’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and perspective, giving space to tell their story and guiding work at a pace that feels right. This approach helps people who need a supportive listener and want their priorities to drive the work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and when breaking cycles of worry or avoidance.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes building skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions. It can be helpful when strong emotions make daily life hard.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Laurie will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean trying a skill-based CBT exercise in one session and focusing on a client-centered check-in the next.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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