About Laurie
Laurie Carlton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Laurie listens first and works with each person to build on their strengths and goals.
She believes clients know their own stories and brings practical tools to help make change feel possible. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with attention to skills you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Laurie helps people facing relationship strain, sleep problems, addiction concerns, grief, and the aftermath of trauma. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and develop new habits. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and interpersonal skills.
Mindfulness practices are offered to help reduce worry and increase present-moment focus. Laurie has supported people through career challenges, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She also addresses issues such as codependency, communication problems, infidelity, and impulsivity.
Her work includes support for those coping with bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and first responder stress. Therapy with her tends to be collaborative and practical. She helps clients set clear, manageable steps and tracks progress together.
If you want a therapist who emphasizes strengths and teaches usable skills, Laurie offers that steady, skills-based style.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skills work
Laurie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thinking patterns that drive anxiety and depression, then practice new ways of responding. CBT focuses on small, concrete changes in thoughts and behaviors that lead to different outcomes.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT-based techniques can be helpful when feelings are intense or relationships feel reactive. Mindfulness therapy is offered to increase present-moment awareness and reduce rumination, which supports stress and sleep improvements.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Laurie will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend strategies to try. Together they check what works and adjust the plan as needed to stay practical and achievable.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing skills practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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