About Laura
Laura Leadley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with twenty years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strains, family concerns, and self-esteem struggles. She approaches each person with attention and curiosity to understand their story and what matters most to them.
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills they can use day to day. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that fit into a busy life.
Background and approach
Laura pays attention to patterns in relationships and how past experiences shape current behavior. Her background includes long-term clinical work across a range of mental health concerns. That experience gives her many ways to help people who feel stuck by fear, habit, or old wounds.
She listens for what is getting in the way now and offers tools to interrupt those patterns. People can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. Laura invites clients to try approaches, notice what helps, and adjust plans together.
She balances direct feedback with space for each person to tell their story at their own pace. Laura practices in Iowa as an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist. She provides care in English and offers a mix of remote formats for flexible scheduling.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and set appointments according to availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on how people tell their stories and how patterns shape current problems. Narrative approaches help people clarify the story they are living, separate unhelpful themes, and try new ways of relating to themselves and others. This can be useful for issues like anxiety, relationship conflict, and feelings of emptiness.She also draws on solution-focused strategies that emphasize small, concrete steps toward clear goals. Those techniques are aimed at reducing symptoms and building coping skills that fit into everyday life, which is often helpful for stress, addictions, and self-esteem work.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify priorities, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Together they decide which techniques match the client’s needs, goals, and comfort level.
Online therapy with Laura is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is a shorter check-in option, and text messaging can support ongoing, as-needed communication between sessions. These formats aim to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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