About Laura
Laura Cartwright is a licensed professional counselor with the LPC-MHSP credential and 13 years of experience. She works from Tennessee and speaks English. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and addiction concerns.
She also helps people facing LGBT-related challenges and gender dysphoria, and supports those coping with trauma and abuse or grief. Relationship issues, communication problems, and codependency are common topics in her work. Parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem concerns are also areas she addresses.
How Laura works
Her approach centers on listening first and tailoring conversations to each person's needs. She aims to work collaboratively to build practical steps people can try between sessions. Sessions often focus on clear goals, doable strategies, and checking what is or isn't helping.
Clients can expect straightforward talk about current struggles and concrete tools for coping. Laura frames change as a step-by-step process and offers steady guidance along the way. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction.
Therapy can cover life transitions such as separation or divorce, family of origin issues, and non-monogamous relationship questions. She is familiar with challenges tied to bipolar disorder and ADHD and helps people navigate mood shifts and daily functioning. Her background includes supporting people through drug and alcohol addiction and relapse concerns.
Laura tailors treatment plans to each situation and encourages people to set realistic goals. She supports clients who want practical work around communication, grief, or rebuilding self-worth. The focus is on usable changes that fit a person's life.
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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC-MHSP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Laura uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to individual needs. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and stress through step-by-step practices such as breathing, grounding, and behavioral experiments that test what helps in daily life. Another approach emphasizes mood regulation and planning for people with bipolar disorder or depression, using structure, routine, and problem-solving to reduce mood swings and improve functioning. Finding the right way to work is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person's situation. Together they will track what helps and adjust strategies over time to better meet needs. Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief coaching, quick check-ins, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, travel, or varied schedules while maintaining continuity of care.Start online instead of waiting
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