About Vanessa
Vanessa LaRose is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on common life pressures like stress and anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and issues with motivation and self-esteem. Vanessa aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and practical guidance.
She builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they really feel. Sessions are intended to help clients sort through upsetting thoughts, try new ways of coping, and practice healthier habits.
Background and approach
Vanessa encourages clear, direct conversation and small, manageable goals. Her work often centers on everyday problems that pile up over time - sleeping and eating troubles, work stress, grief, and parenting strain. She also addresses more complex concerns like bipolar symptoms, addictions, or trauma reactions in meaningful, paced steps.
The goal is to reduce overwhelm and increase a sense of control. Vanessa also attends to relationship and intimacy issues, communication problems, and family-related stressors. She supports people navigating separation, blended family dynamics, and codependency patterns.
Clients collaborate on practical tools for better communication and boundaries. When the focus is on career stress, compassion fatigue, or life changes, Vanessa helps clients prioritize and plan. She meets people where they are and works on goals that matter to them.
Her straightforward approach is meant to feel useful from the first sessions onward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Vanessa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach she relies on helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and abuse at a pace that feels manageable, helping people make sense of painful memories and respond differently in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. The client and therapist decide together which techniques will be tried first and how quickly to move forward.
Online therapy with Vanessa offers flexible options - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when preferred. Phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text sessions are helpful for short check-ins, daily coaching, or maintaining momentum between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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