About Laura
Laura Bourne focuses on stress, anxiety, depression and trauma-related concerns. She also supports issues around self-esteem, grief, relationships, intimacy, sleep problems, anger and coping with life changes. Laura is experienced with ADHD and LGBT-related concerns and can help with a wide range of attachment and family-of-origin difficulties.
Laura practises in a straightforward and compassionate way. She uses talk-based work to help people make sense of painful experiences. Sessions are calm and practical, with time for emotion and time for steps forward.
How Laura works
Her background includes five years working in counselling roles in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which are listed as her professional registrations. Laura originally trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT and has extended her learning to include other approaches.
In sessions she draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. She also uses psychodynamic thinking to notice repeating patterns, and client-centred listening to follow what matters most to the individual. Solution-focused tools are brought in when practical, short-term changes are needed.
People who contact Laura can expect a flexible, tailored approach. She aims to balance emotional understanding with steps that reduce distress day to day. Getting help can feel hard, and she aims to make the process as clear and manageable as possible.
Laura lists 6 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Laura’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape present feelings and responses. Online sessions can be used to notice patterns in relationships and practise new ways of relating in everyday life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It offers practical exercises and small experiments that can be done between sessions to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy. Laura will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process helps tailor each session and keeps the work focused on what the client needs.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make contact easier around work, childcare or mobility limits. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, phone calls can fit into a short break, and messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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