About Laurie
Laurie Metje is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with eating and self-esteem. She also supports clients dealing with stress, anger, career changes, addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting pressures, and personality-related difficulties. Laurie writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
She believes taking the first step toward change takes courage and that most people already have strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Laurie uses a client-centered stance that puts each person’s experience first. She listens for what matters most, then helps set small, achievable goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot thinking patterns and test new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills offer concrete ways to manage intense emotions and cope better day to day. Laurie blends emotionally-focused methods and mindfulness practices to help people notice feelings and respond differently to them. Sessions often include simple exercises in awareness and grounding, alongside conversations about practical problem solving.
Motivational interviewing techniques are also used to support readiness for change and strengthen commitment to goals. She has nine years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Washington. Laurie aims to create a straightforward space where people can talk through hard things, practice new skills, and track small wins.
Her approach is collaborative, with treatment shaped around each person’s needs and pace.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. In practice this means sessions begin by hearing what matters most, then shaping goals around those priorities so work feels relevant and doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday worries because it links thinking, feeling, and action in practical ways. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. These tools can reduce intense reactions and provide clear steps to manage crisis moments while building better long-term coping.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about current needs, goals, and preferences, and then recommend which methods to try first. Progress is reviewed as therapy continues so methods can be adjusted or combined based on what helps most.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to stay consistent with care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English