About Laura
Laura Akins is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas with 34 years of experience. She meets people where they are and listens first. Her style is calm and straightforward, focused on helping people find more peace and purpose in daily life.
She draws on long experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports those facing addictions, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
How Laura works
Sessions are conversational and aimed at practical steps that fit a person's life and values. Her approach blends several methods to match what each person needs. Techniques include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Motivational Interviewing, and client-centered work.
Laura aims to help people clarify values, change unhelpful patterns, and repair emotional connections. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, codependency, control and commitment concerns, family of origin patterns, and questions about life purpose. Work may include coaching elements for people who want concrete goals and plans.
Laura's graduate research focused on spiritual development, and she is comfortable bringing spiritual themes into sessions when clients want that. She emphasizes respect for each person's beliefs and concentrates on what will make life more meaningful and manageable. Clients who prefer talking through challenges in a calm, experienced space may find her style helpful.
Her long career centers on listening, practical guidance, and steady support for change.
Laura lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Laura works with
The areas below are the ones Laura selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 34 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and finding clearer life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to symptoms like low mood or excessive worry. It often uses small experiments and practical skill-building. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) works on emotional awareness and repairing relational or attachment wounds by naming feelings and creating new responses.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying approaches, checking what helps, and adjusting the focus as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let most of the conversation feel like an in-person session. Phone sessions are useful when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, coaching touches, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.
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