About Laura
Laura Clarke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon. She brings four years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people navigate relationship strain, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, and mood challenges such as depression and bipolar. Laura also supports people facing eating concerns, ADHD, and the stress of life changes.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. She helps clients name problems, try new ways of coping, and track what does and doesn't work.
Background and approach
Laura uses tools drawn from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive-behavioral skills, dialectical strategies, and emotion-focused methods. She blends these with a client-centered attitude, letting each person shape the pace and focus. In practice this means practical exercises, emotion work, and values-based planning.
She has particular interest in concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, and caregiver stress. Laura also addresses topics like adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and sexual subcultures including BDSM and kink in a nonjudgmental way. People can expect an initial session to review history, set goals, and agree on next steps.
Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Online approaches that guide sessions and goals
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for mood struggles, anxiety, and sticking with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes, which can help with depression, eating concerns, and negative self-beliefs. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and naming emotional patterns in close relationships so people can shift how they respond to each other and feel more connected.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist and client talk through goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past to decide which approaches to try. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted as needs change, so the plan can shift over time if something isn't working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people see facial cues and do interactive exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to connect when travel or scheduling would otherwise be a barrier.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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