About Laura
Laura Craven is a counsellor with a first-class Integrative Counselling degree who aims to bring a genuine and respectful presence to each session. She focuses on building a trusting therapeutic relationship where autonomy and mutual respect are central. Sessions are collaborative and designed to help people feel heard and understood as they talk through what brought them to therapy.
Laura uses an integrative approach, drawing on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to fit each person’s needs.
How Laura works
This might mean primarily talking things through, adding creative activities such as journalling, or working with mindfulness and psychoeducation to give a different perspective. The emphasis is on practical steps and clear explanations rather than jargon. She has experience supporting people facing grief and loss, different kinds of trauma, and situations involving domestic violence.
She also helps people dealing with work-related stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship concerns and issues connected to chronic illness and caregiver strain. Sessions are tailored to each person’s preferences and circumstances. Laura aims to make therapy a straightforward process, matching styles and techniques to what feels most useful.
She welcomes questions and encourages people to check how an approach feels as they progress. With three years of professional experience, Laura brings patience, sensitivity and an attentive ear. She works in English and offers sessions for people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
To start, she asks people to share a little about themselves so the right fit can be made.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- 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 natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How integrative techniques work online
Laura uses an integrative approach that blends talking therapy with practical tools. One common strand is mindful-based work which teaches simple awareness exercises and breathing techniques to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These practices can be shown and practised during a video call or guided by audio in text-based exchanges.Another strand is guided journalling and reflective work, where prompts and short exercises help people notice patterns and make sense of feelings. This approach suits those who find writing helps them process grief, trauma or relationship concerns. Psychoeducation is also used to explain how reactions develop and what steps can help, giving clear, manageable information rather than technical language.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try different techniques and adjust based on what feels helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay aligned with their needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and demonstrations; phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or suit lower bandwidth; live chat and messaging offer short, flexible check-ins and space to write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments while keeping therapy practical and accessible.
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