About Laura
Laura Hopf is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with six years of clinical experience. She began counseling as a second career and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. Laura brings a calm, straightforward style and aims to make visits feel useful from the start.
Her background includes work in community mental health settings and day treatment programs, along with time in intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs.
How Laura works
This varied experience shaped a flexible approach to care and a familiarity with both individual and group formats. Laura draws on practical skills to help people reduce symptoms and find clearer next steps. In sessions she emphasizes the role of relationships, environment, and family patterns in people’s struggles.
She works in a warm, nonjudgmental way and focuses on what will help each person meet their goals. She blends different methods so therapy matches the situation rather than forcing one technique. Laura uses tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches alongside mindfulness and motivational interviewing.
She also uses solution-focused ideas to set small, achievable goals. Her aim is to balance insight with skills people can use between sessions. People who reach out should expect a collaborative process that centers their priorities.
Laura helps identify targets for change, offers clear strategies, and checks in about progress. She supports work on relationships, grief, parenting strains, sleep problems, addictions, self-esteem, and related concerns.
Laura lists 6 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It often helps with anxiety, panic, mood problems, and sleep difficulties by giving clear tools to change patterns of thinking and behavior.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflicts in relationships. It can be useful for people who struggle with impulsivity, intense mood swings, or chronic stress.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and helps reduce reactivity. Simple practices can improve emotional regulation and decrease rumination when stress or grief flare up.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods that fit and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility for many schedules. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and teach practices in real time. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be helpful for ongoing support between longer sessions or for people who prefer writing over speaking.
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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.
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