About Larry
Larry Laehn is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 30 years of experience. He focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. He aims to make sessions straightforward and practical for someone juggling busy days and big feelings.
Larry uses a mix of approaches that fit the person's situation. He draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clarify values, cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, and client-centered methods to keep the conversation grounded in the person's priorities.
How Larry works
Sessions tend to be plainspoken and focused on small, doable steps. His background includes work in vocational rehabilitation and community mental health, which shaped his interest in career stress, workplace dynamics, and life transitions. He also supports people facing grief, chronic illness, caregiving burden, and end-of-life concerns.
Those experiences inform a practical, experience-based outlook in session. People often come for help with sleep problems, anger, relationship communication, codependency, or struggles with meaning and purpose. Larry also works with issues like compassion fatigue, addiction recovery, and coping after disasters.
He aims to help clients build tools they can use between sessions. Larry describes therapy as a collaborative effort. He helps people set clear goals, try strategies between visits, and adjust plans as life changes.
The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to what each person finds most useful.
Larry lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Larry works with
The areas below are the ones Larry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Approaches and what online therapy looks like
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values. It can help when people feel stuck or disconnected from what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, using straightforward exercises to change patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the conversation centered on the person's goals and experience, offering support while decisions and pacing come from the individual.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Larry will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try approaches that fit. Plans are adjusted as needed so the work stays practical and relevant to daily life.
Online sessions can be held as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a lighter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates or ongoing written support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility challenges while keeping focus on useful coping skills and progress.
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