About Surilla
Surilla Lawrence is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward conversation and goal-focused work to help people manage pressure and overwhelming feelings. Many clients come for help with relationships, grief, trauma, or major life changes.
Surilla emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions. Her approach starts with listening closely to what matters most to each person. She customizes conversations and plans so they fit real life, not a one-size-fits-all checklist.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning skills for emotion regulation and ways to change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Surilla draws on methods that strengthen attachment and emotional connection, while also teaching coping tools to reduce anxiety and stress. She helps people untangle relationship patterns, work through grief, and address issues like addiction or caregiver stress.
The work can include short-term skills practice or deeper exploration of long-standing patterns. With seven years of professional experience, Surilla brings steady clinical experience to the work. She invites clients to set clear goals and checks progress along the way.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Practical next steps include completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the person’s needs.
Online therapy approaches that focus on emotions and coping
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns. It helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and supports building safer emotional connections.Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the person’s experience. The therapist listens without judgment and helps clients find their own solutions and strengths, which can be useful for anxiety, grief, and self-esteem work.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Surilla will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and choose methods together. This collaborative planning makes it easier to try skills or deeper reflection in a way that feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines and comfort levels. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills. Phone sessions can fit a short break or work around bandwidth limits. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, written reflections, or support between calls. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, or medical commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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