About Vanessa
Dr. Vanessa Laurent is a Connecticut and Rhode Island psychologist who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She offers practical, evidence-informed work aimed at clearer thinking and steadier daily routines.
Her style is straightforward and centered on each person's needs. She leans on cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that get in the way of feeling better. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to build coping skills and emotional balance.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and focused on small, achievable steps. Over nine years of practice have led her to treat a wide range of concerns, from relationship and parenting strains to trauma, ADHD, and career stress. She has worked with issues tied to adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, fertility, immigration, and financial worries.
That variety informs a flexible, practical approach. Dr. Laurent explains options clearly and helps people pick strategies that fit their life.
She emphasizes skill-building - like stress management, communication practices, and problem-solving - that people can use between sessions. Progress is tracked through concrete goals and regular check-ins. People meet with her to work on self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, coping with separation, and improving communication.
She also offers coaching-oriented support for career decisions and goal setting. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged to suit different schedules.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then move toward values-based action; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that maintain problems, which can help with depression, anxiety, and coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that are useful when strong emotions interfere with daily life. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then recommend and try techniques collaboratively. Sessions often combine strategies so that work is practical and personalized. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and role play, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging can provide short check-ins and coaching between appointments. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, quick follow-ups, and different ways to practice skills outside sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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