About Laura
Laura Ferguson helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed or unsure about their next steps. She works with relationship and family issues, low self-esteem, trauma and compassion fatigue. Laura also supports people facing workplace strain, identity questions and difficulties with intimacy.
She adopts a straightforward, respectful style in sessions. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths you might not yet notice.
How Laura works
Conversations focus on small, practical steps you can try between meetings. Laura aims to make the first steps feel less daunting and more manageable. Her background includes eight years of qualified professional work as a therapist across independent practice, charities and custodial settings.
This range has given experience of practical problems and emotional distress in different environments. Laura holds NCPS, described as NCPS Therapist - Accredited Member (MNCPS Accred). In sessions Laura combines talking therapies and practical tools.
She draws on client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, motivational interviewing to build momentum, and psychodynamic thinking to understand patterns. Together these approaches shape a plan based on your concerns and goals. People meet Laura to talk through issues such as infidelity, blended family tension, obsessive thoughts, seasonal mood shifts, self-harm and loneliness.
She also offers support for career uncertainty, life purpose questions and the strain of caring for others. Sessions are paced to suit each person and their situation.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| 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
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist reflects what you say and helps you notice your own strengths and priorities, which can help with self-esteem, life changes and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers clear tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new routines, which is useful for anxiety, depression and obsessive thinking.
Motivational Interviewing helps when motivation feels low or change seems hard. It uses focused conversations to build commitment to small, achievable goals and can help with career moves, relationship choices or health-related steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Laura will discuss options and tailor methods to your needs, goals and preferences. She treats this as a collaborative process where you both review what is helping and what to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls suit fuller conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a shorter check-in, and messaging works well for ongoing support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
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