About Laura-Anne
Laura-Anne Mervyn supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and grief. She also helps with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, and struggles with sleep or eating. Laura-Anne works with concerns around parenting, career pressure, and self-esteem.
She offers a steady, practical presence for people facing big life changes. She uses a client-centred approach that puts each persons experience at the heart of sessions. That means she listens first, helps you name what matters, and follows your lead when planning next steps.
How Laura-Anne works
Conversations are straightforward and down-to-earth, not full of jargon. Laura-Anne aims to help people find clearer ways to cope and move forward. Her practice draws on nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
During that time she has worked with people affected by chronic health conditions and with those navigating family conflicts. She also has experience in school counselling and supporting people with ADHD, bipolar and depression-related concerns. People who choose her can expect short-term practical tools alongside reflective discussion.
Sessions may include talking through patterns, practising new ways of responding, and setting small, achievable goals. The focus is on what helps you in day-to-day life. Laura-Anne is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers appointments online in English and accepts international clients. To begin, follow the sites matching steps and book a session that suits your schedule.
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What Laura-Anne works with
The areas below are the ones Laura-Anne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How client-centred therapy works online
Client-centred therapy is about listening carefully and following your lead. The counsellor focuses on your feelings and perspectives, helping you make sense of experience and choose small steps you feel ready to try. This approach suits people coping with anxiety, stress, grief, relationship worries and life transitions.The therapist also brings practical, goal-oriented conversation. That means identifying patterns, trying out new responses, and setting achievable tasks between appointments to build momentum in daily life. These methods can help with sleep or eating problems, coping with chronic health conditions, and managing low mood or burnout.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The counsellor will ask about your needs, goals and preferences and help choose ways of working that fit. You can try different formats and adjust the plan as you go, keeping the focus on what helps you most.
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video can allow face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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