Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Surilla works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Surilla
Surilla Lawrence is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people handle strong emotions. She draws on several therapy styles to address things like stress, anxiety, anger, and relationship concerns. Her approach aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful for everyday life.
She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all script. Sessions focus on clear skills and on understanding patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Surilla emphasizes compassion and respect while helping clients try new ways of coping. Her work covers grief and loss, trauma and abuse, mood concerns including depression and bipolar, and struggles with addiction. She also supports people facing family problems, intimacy-related issues, and parenting stress.
Additional focus areas include abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, and caregiver strain. Surilla blends approaches such as attachment-based techniques, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical skills, and emotion-focused work. That mix lets her help with both practical behavior changes and deeper emotional patterns.
Over seven years of clinical experience inform how she tailors sessions to each person. People meet with Surilla by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Her work is organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is arranged according to therapist availability.
What Surilla works with
Everything Surilla lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Surilla's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Surilla lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How attachment and skills-based approaches translate online
Surilla often uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to guide online work. Attachment-based work helps people notice patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions; it can be useful when anger or intimacy issues keep repeating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing concrete strategies to change them, which helps with anxiety, depression, and anger management.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Surilla will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try strategies in session, and adjust the plan as needed. That collaborative process helps determine whether to emphasize emotion-focused exploration, skills practice, or a mix of both.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their routine. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging allows brief updates or problem-solving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
Questions people ask about Surilla
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, relationship problems, grief, depression, addictions, and related issues such as attachment and codependency.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style combines client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches and an emphasis on emotions and attachment.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of professional experience working in therapeutic settings and has developed a blend of practical and emotionally focused methods.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Michigan.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How do I start working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.