Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
How Laura works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Laura
Laura Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience working in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and the many life transitions that can feel overwhelming. Her work often centers on support after loss, trauma, and major relationship changes.
She meets each person where they are and listens first to understand what matters most. Sessions are practical and down to earth. She helps people build skills to cope, communicate, and make calmer choices when emotions run high.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with mood conditions like depression and bipolar, and with concerns such as panic attacks, social anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. She also supports people dealing with addictions, sleep and eating struggles, and issues tied to body image and self-esteem.
Therapeutic tools she uses include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and client-centered strategies to help people identify values and take small, steady steps. She also draws on dialectical methods and emotionally focused ideas when relationships and intense feelings are central. Clients can expect clear discussion of goals and simple, practiceable skills to use between sessions.
Laura works collaboratively to adapt approaches to each person’s priorities and pace.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Addictions
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Body image
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Laura lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that focus on values and skills
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for stress, anxiety, anger, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical behavior changes; it often helps with panic, depression, and obsessive or compulsive routines. Client-Centered Therapy provides a warm, nonjudgmental space where the person’s own goals and pace guide the work; this approach supports self-understanding and emotional processing.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their goals and preferences. Sessions begin with a focus on what matters most and adjust as needs change, so the plan evolves together rather than being fixed up front.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, to have a quick skills check-in, or to reduce bandwidth when video isn’t practical.
Questions people ask about Laura
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, grief, trauma, relationship and family problems, addictions, sleep and eating issues, mood disorders, ADHD, and related concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is empathetic and practical. She listens first, then teaches simple skills and steps people can use between sessions.
What is her experience working with these issues?
She brings 25 years of clinical experience in New Jersey, providing long-term and short-term support for a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with an NJ LPC credential and practices out of New Jersey.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.