About Laura
Laura Howard is a counsellor who aims to help people feel heard and understood. She works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, stress, eating and body image problems, self-esteem and parenting. Laura is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She prefers a calm, warm approach in sessions. Laura listens carefully and helps people put words to what they are feeling.
Background and approach
The first meeting is used to agree what to focus on and whether her way of working fits the person’s needs. Laura blends psychodynamic ideas with client-centred practice. That means she pays attention to how past relationships and patterns can affect feelings today, while also following what matters most to the person in the room.
Sessions are conversational but focused on the issues the client brings. She has five years of experience and has worked with people from the LGBT community. Laura has also completed a certificate in adoption counselling and supports people affected by adoption and special guardianship orders.
Her interests include attachment, shame, loss and identity matters. Clients can expect a straightforward process that begins by talking about the main concerns. Laura helps people explore emotions and patterns and to try different ways of coping.
She aims to make therapy practical and understandable so people can take small steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Laura uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and emotional patterns, helping people who struggle with trust, abandonment or intimacy problems to understand their responses. Client-centred work means the session focuses on what matters most to the person, with the counsellor following the client’s pace and priorities. Psychodynamic elements are used to notice recurring patterns and links to past experiences so these can be understood and changed where needed.Finding the right way of working is collaborative. The therapist will discuss these approaches with the client in early sessions and agree what feels most useful. Together they shape goals and try methods that fit the client’s needs and preferences, reviewing progress as they go.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and a quiet space are available. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good alternative when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need brief, on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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