About Laura
Laura Clarke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon. She has four years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people navigate relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem concerns, depression, eating challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and major life transitions. She offers online options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
In sessions she uses practical, straightforward methods to help people manage hard emotions and make steady changes.
How Laura works
She adapts tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work to fit each person’s goals. The work often includes learning new coping skills, practicing communication, and noticing patterns that keep problems going.
Her additional focus areas include concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care challenges, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, commitment issues, and aspects of kink and alternative sexual cultures. She also addresses autism and Asperger Syndrome, antisocial and avoidant personality issues, blended family concerns, cancer-related stress, and co-morbidity. Laura keeps sessions collaborative and direct.
She helps people set clear goals and tracks progress together. Conversations are practical and down-to-earth with an emphasis on usable skills for day-to-day life. To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
The subscription model can be canceled at any time.
Laura lists 10 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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for mood, anxiety, and eating concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy puts attention on emotions and relationship patterns to improve connection and communication in close relationships. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try different techniques to see what fits best. Together they will adjust the plan based on what is working and what the person wants to achieve. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls let people use visual cues for emotional work and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief, ongoing support between sessions and can help maintain momentum when schedules are tight. These options allow flexibility in how and when work happens while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional understanding.Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with LauraWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What concerns does she address?
What is her therapy style like?
What experience does she have?
Where is the therapist licensed and practicing?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What session formats are available?
How does the cost structure work?
How do I get started with therapy?
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.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for relationship
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions