About Laurie
Laurie Pittman is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with a practical, people-first approach to therapy. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Laurie draws on straightforward methods so people can try new ways of coping right away.
She tailors sessions to each person's situation rather than using one fixed plan. Laurie uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes.
Background and approach
She also brings mindfulness practices into sessions to help people notice emotions and respond more calmly. Before counseling, Laurie spent over a decade as an educator. That background shaped her communication style - clear, patient, and practical.
She draws on 12 years of overall counseling experience to help people set realistic goals and track progress. Laurie works with concerns such as relationship and family stress, parenting strain, communication problems, codependency, caregiver burden, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and intimacy-related issues, bipolar and mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Sessions focus on concrete strategies that can be used between meetings.
Her practice offers a collaborative tone. Laurie aims to build rapport quickly and use respectful, encouraging language while helping people try new approaches. She is based in Louisiana and conducts sessions in English.
How Laurie’s Approaches Work Online
Laurie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is practical and often focuses on short-term goals like reducing worry or changing daily habits.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity. Mindfulness can help people manage strong emotions, improve focus, and feel more grounded between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Laurie will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and work on skills in real time. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Louisiana
- Languages
- English