About Laura
Laura Nagy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 30 years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy in a client-centered way and helps people set their own goals while offering practical tools to reach them. Her style leans toward solution-focused work, so sessions often include concrete steps and homework between meetings.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas and psychodynamic perspectives when they fit the client's needs. That mix aims to reduce symptoms and build lasting skills.
How Laura works
Laura has worked across a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and bipolar disorder. She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, sleep and eating issues, career problems, and the challenges of life transitions.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Her experience includes crisis counseling and work with first responder issues and family of origin difficulties. Sessions are collaborative and strengths-based.
Laura names and builds on each person’s existing resources while teaching new coping strategies. She emphasizes small, doable steps so change can feel manageable and steady.
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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Laura uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's concerns and goals. This approach centers the conversation on what matters most to the client and helps shape goals that feel personally meaningful.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT often involves practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, manage mood, or address unhelpful patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and needs to decide whether client-centered, CBT, or a blend is best. This partnership helps tailor the plan and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that feels helpful. Phone calls can fit a shorter check-in or times with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, journaling-style notes, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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