About Laura
Laura Craven is a counsellor with a first-class Integrative Counselling degree. She brings a warm, plain-speaking manner to sessions and aims to build trust and respect from the start. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, helping people feel heard and understood before moving on to practical work.
As an integrative counsellor she draws on a mix of ways to help, tailoring each session to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
That may mean talking things through, learning mindfulness exercises, keeping a journal, or introducing simple psychoeducation to clarify what is happening. The emphasis is on methods that fit the individual's needs rather than a single fixed approach. Laura has three years of clinical experience working with grief and loss, trauma and abuse, and people affected by domestic violence.
She also supports people coping with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties. Phobias are included among her focus areas and she will work with the concerns you bring. She offers practical tools alongside listening and reflection.
Sessions can include exploring patterns, trying short exercises in the moment, and setting manageable steps between meetings. People often leave with clearer ways to manage difficult feelings and everyday stresses. Based in the United Kingdom, Laura works with adults from different backgrounds.
She aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and respect and to adapt sessions so they feel useful and relevant to each person.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Laura uses an integrative framework that draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them for online work. One common approach is cognitive-style work that helps identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns; this can reduce anxiety and help manage phobias by breaking down fearful thoughts into manageable steps. Another element is mindfulness-based practice which teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to lower stress and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences and responses to different exercises and then shape sessions to suit you. This keeps the work collaborative and responsive as progress is assessed over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, sharing journal entries, or following up on tasks between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain steady work on phobias, anxiety and related concerns even when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- 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 natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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