About Laura
Laura Calabro is a UK-credentialed counsellor with 14 years of clinical experience across the National Health Service and independent practice in Italy. She speaks English and Italian and works with people facing relationship struggles, trauma, low mood, anxiety, and questions about identity or sexuality. She aims to build a respectful and compassionate space for frank conversation.
Laura draws on several evidence-based approaches to shape her work. She uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to teach practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships.
How Laura works
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing helps her address traumatic memories so they feel less disruptive. Psychodynamic ideas are used to notice recurring patterns that affect current life. Sessions are tailored to the person and their goals.
She listens for what matters most and co-designs a plan that is practical and manageable. Many people come for short-term help with a specific problem, and others work on longer-standing patterns that keep returning. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image and eating concerns, ADHD, dissociation, and codependency.
She also helps with family of origin problems, grief, and career-related stress. These topics are explored at a pace the person can tolerate. People can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
International clients are accepted. Sessions are offered under a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Laura lists 4 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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | HCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| 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
Laura uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to teach concrete skills for handling intense emotions, coping with stress, and improving communication. DBT sessions often include skill practice, problem solving, and planning to apply techniques between sessions.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing to reduce the hold of painful memories. EMDR focuses on processing traumatic or distressing memories so they feel less intrusive and upsetting in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client talk through goals, history, and preferences and then try a way of working that fits. Adjustments are made as progress and needs become clearer, so the process stays collaborative.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when a fuller conversation is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer short, frequent contact or need to fit support around a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care across different locations and schedules.
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