About Laura
Laura Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, and life transitions. Her approach aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
She combines practical talking and skill-building. Sessions focus on what’s happening now and what can change. Laura uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
How Laura works
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and family dynamics. The work often includes checking how early bonds show up in current connections and coping.
Laura’s client-centered stance means she tailors the plan to each person and works collaboratively on goals and next steps. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, blended family issues, caregiver strain, codependency, substance use, trauma and abuse, and multicultural matters. She also addresses practical problems like sleep, eating, anger, and career questions.
Sessions emphasize clear skills, gentle curiosity, and steady progress. Outside clinical work she spends downtime with family and dogs, enjoying the camper or riding ATV and UTV trails. That balance informs a pragmatic, down-to-earth style in sessions.
Laura lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarify the values that matter most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where direction and motivation feel unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns that contribute to anxiety, sleep or eating problems, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current connections and coping, which can help with intimacy, family problems, and communication difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means adapting tools from different approaches over time and checking in about what is or isn’t helping.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video sessions let people talk face-to-face when needed, phone sessions can be easier with limited bandwidth, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats make it possible to fit regular sessions into busy lives and to continue work between live meetings.
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