About Laura
Laura Brum is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 10 years of experience. She helps people dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, parenting stress, and attention challenges. Her approach is warm and conversational, aimed at making therapy feel doable for busy, worried people.
She focuses on practical steps that help people move forward. Laura uses client-centered work to build trust and understand what matters to each person. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for emotion regulation and coping.
How Laura works
For people who have been through physical or emotional trauma, she also uses EMDR to process painful memories when appropriate. Mindfulness techniques are part of sessions too, helping with stress, depression, and panic symptoms. The overall goal is to create a clear plan that fits each person's life and goals.
Sessions are conversational but goal-oriented. Laura aims to be respectful and nonjudgmental while helping people try small changes that add up. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on strengths as well as struggles.
Her background includes a decade of counseling in a rural Oregon setting. That experience shaped an adaptable, resourceful style that works for a wide range of concerns. She encourages anyone ready to take a next step to begin with a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Laura lists 7 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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. Online sessions use that same conversational stance to help people feel heard and to set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; in online work this often includes between-session exercises and tracking to practice new skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness that can be taught over video or text and practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that match your needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean trying a mix of approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for richer conversation and reading nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat and text are helpful for quick check-ins or when shorter messages fit a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit care into work, family life, or other routines while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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