About Laura
Laura Hawkins is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in Michigan who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship pressures, trauma, and major life changes. She often works with people who look fine on the outside but feel overwhelmed, stuck, or emotionally exhausted inside. Her style is practical and compassionate, focused on tools you can use day to day.
She keeps sessions structured and collaborative. Conversations move toward clear skills and small experiments you can try between meetings.
How Laura works
Her work emphasizes calming the nervous system, spotting patterns that keep problems alive, and building steady habits that reduce worry and reactivity. Laura draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques and attachment-focused ideas to address worry, obsessive thinking, burnout, and communication or control challenges.
She helps clients untangle feelings like guilt, shame, emptiness, and isolation while also addressing issues such as impulsivity, infidelity, and commitment concerns. Sessions aim to be practical rather than only reflective. Clients and Laura set goals together, practice new responses, and track progress over time.
The process is direct but respectful, with attention to what’s realistic for daily life. With nine years of experience, she offers focused support for people ready to better understand themselves and make sustainable changes. Laura encourages a steady pace and clear next steps so progress feels manageable and real.
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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's 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 evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Laura uses a few core evidence-based approaches in straightforward ways. Cognitive-behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce worry and rumination. Dialectical-style skills teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance strategies for intense feelings and impulsive reactions. Attachment-focused ideas look at patterns in close relationships and help reshape how people connect and communicate.Finding the right mix of approaches happens collaboratively. The therapist and client review goals and try specific exercises to see what helps. Adjustments are made over time so the work fits the client's needs, preferences, and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible options that match different rhythms. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and live skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions, get brief coaching, or track progress without scheduling a full call. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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A practical next step
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