About Laura
Laura Duncan uses a practical, person-focused approach to therapy. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker, or LMSW, with nine years of experience working with adults. Her style centers on listening, building understanding, and helping people find concrete ways to feel better.
She helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She also addresses challenges such as relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating and body image concerns, and ADHD.
How Laura works
Laura offers support for work-related strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and complicated grief as well. Sessions emphasize collaboration. Laura draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are used to help people manage intense feelings in the moment and build motivation for change. Her background includes nearly a decade in clinical settings in Michigan.
That experience gives Laura a range of skills for helping people manage practical problems while also addressing deeper emotional patterns. She focuses on clear, usable tools rather than abstract concepts. People who work with Laura can expect straightforward conversation, skills to try between sessions, and a steady focus on the goals they name.
She accepts clients who prefer online work and offers multiple formats to fit different needs.
Laura lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How attachment and CBT work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship experiences shape current patterns in feelings and behavior. Online sessions make it possible to talk through those patterns and try new ways of connecting without travel.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It suits problems like anxiety, depression, and stress where practical steps and homework can make a clear difference.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean mixing attachment ideas, CBT exercises, mindfulness practice, or motivational strategies until something clicks.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit quick check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules, caregiving demands, or people who live far from in-person services.
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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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