About Laura
Laura Anderson welcomes people who are worn down by daily worry, low motivation, or sudden shifts in mood. She writes plainly and listens closely to help clients understand what they're facing. Sessions are conversational and often include practical skills you can use between meetings.
Laura uses a mix of therapeutic approaches rather than one fixed method. She explains techniques in simple terms and adapts them to each person's needs. Humor is sometimes part of sessions to ease tension and make hard work feel more manageable.
Background and approach
With ten years of experience as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida, she brings steady clinical experience to common concerns like anxiety, depression, and stress. She also addresses relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, career questions, and life transitions. Laura works with people dealing with issues such as panic attacks, mood disorders, codependency, communication problems, abandonment, and feelings of isolation.
She helps clients practice coping skills for anger, guilt, shame, and control issues while guiding conversations about forgiveness and life purpose. In sessions she blends skills training with client-centered listening. Expect clear explanations, guided practice of new ways to respond, and collaborative goal setting.
Her aim is to help clients gain more good days than bad days by building tools they can use outside of therapy.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Laura commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match your values, which can help with avoidance, low motivation, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that feel like a good fit. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques over time so the approach matches the client’s needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls let you see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when you need flexible times between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English