About Laura
Laura Roland is a licensed professional counselor who offers straightforward, task-oriented therapy for adults. She brings 22 years of experience and focuses on helping people move past long-standing patterns that cause distress. Her approach is warm and direct, with practical tools people can use between sessions.
She uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and where they began. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits.
Background and approach
For people with intense emotional swings or self-harm urges, elements of dialectical behavior therapy can teach calmer ways to respond. Trauma work, including EMDR, is part of her practice when processing past abuse or complex trauma. Laura supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, grief, chronic pain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses intimacy-related concerns, anger, career stress, and issues tied to family of origin. Her style is practical and homework-focused. Clients may receive worksheets, weekly challenges, and specific skills to practice.
Laura aims to be a steady, collaborative presence while people try new ways of coping and relating. Sessions are offered remotely in formats that include video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She holds credentials as an LPC and as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida, and she practices with those state licenses.
How attachment work and skills training translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people see how early relationships shaped their current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and guided reflection to map those patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors. In remote sessions CBT often includes worksheets and real-time practice to build new habits. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps process difficult memories; when used online it usually combines focused memory work with therapist-guided bilateral stimulation and careful pacing.Choosing the right method is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest which approaches to try. That process is collaborative and may change as progress is seen or new needs arise.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow frequent, brief touchpoints and written tools between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English