About Laura
Dr. Laura Stoops helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and phobias. She also supports people dealing with relationship strains, intimacy worries, self-esteem difficulties and grief.
Her work covers coping with life changes, addictions, ADHD and problems with sleep or eating. She uses a calm, non-judgemental manner to make it easier to talk about difficult things. Laura Stoops holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has four years' experience as a counsellor.
Background and approach
She trained in different approaches so she can adapt to each person. Sessions focus on listening first, and then trying simple, practical steps together. Her approach draws on client-centred methods that put the person's experience at the heart of the session.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when helpful to spot unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits. Psychodynamic ideas can be used to look at how past patterns affect current feelings and relationships. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable.
People can expect straightforward conversation, reflective questions and at times short exercises to try between meetings. The emphasis is on small, steady change rather than quick fixes. Laura aims to help people find clearer ways to handle stress, improve relationships and reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
She welcomes open discussion about treatment options and practical adjustments that fit each person's routine.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's experience in the moment. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own way forward, which can be especially useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It often uses practical exercises and small experiments to shift unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for issues like phobias, depression and worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the person about goals and preferences, then try methods that seem most useful. They will check in and adapt the plan together as things change.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone contact, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties or limited travel.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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