Works with
How Laura works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Laura
Laura Smith is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with eight years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and anger. She approaches each person with warmth and directness. Her aim is to help people feel understood and to build practical skills they can use day to day.
She keeps sessions simple and goal-focused. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what can change next.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that make problems worse and works with clients to try different ways of responding. Sessions often include small experiments and practice between meetings. Laura draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person.
She uses clear, straightforward methods rather than jargon. This helps people build coping tools for anxiety, improve communication in relationships, manage anger, and handle losses and transitions. Her background includes counseling across a range of life stages and concerns.
Laura has experience with issues related to trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy-related struggles, and mood conditions such as bipolar. She also supports people navigating LGBT questions and career stress. Laura practices in North Carolina as an LCMHC, and she offers sessions in English.
She provides a respectful, steady space for parents, partners, and individuals who want practical strategies and honest feedback. If someone is looking for a calm, skill-focused approach, she aims to help them move forward.
What Laura works with
Everything Laura lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Laura's practice.
How evidence-based methods work online
Laura uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and try new ways of coping. Cognitive behavioral approaches break problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and focus on changing unhelpful thinking and behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and ease anger. Narrative-informed methods help people reframe difficult experiences and build a clearer story about strengths and values, which can be useful for trauma, grief, or identity concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest a starting plan. That plan is reviewed and adjusted as needed so the approach fits the client rather than the other way around.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues for a standard therapy session. Phone sessions can be easier when a quieter space or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support short check-ins, quick coaching between sessions, and a steady way to track progress. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity across changes in routine.
Questions people ask about Laura
What concerns does this therapist address?
Laura supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and related relationship or parenting issues. She also works with concerns like trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, and bipolar mood challenges.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and direct with practical steps. Sessions focus on current problems, skill building, and trying small changes between meetings.
What experience does she bring?
She has eight years of clinical experience working across many concerns and age ranges. That background informs an approach that blends structured techniques with flexible support.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, LCMHC, practicing in North Carolina.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.