About Laura
Laura Pascal is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She works with individuals who need practical support for parenting, relationships, self-esteem, career decisions, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel understood and more capable.
In sessions she uses simple, collaborative methods to identify what’s not working and try new ways of coping.
How Laura works
She draws on client-centered approaches to follow each person’s lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change the behaviors that follow. Mindfulness practices are used to build calm and reduce reactivity.
Over two decades of practice in New Jersey have brought experience with caregiving stress, blended family issues, chronic illness and pain, and concerns common to veterans and first responders. She also works with people facing divorce, midlife questions, isolation, and relationship or communication problems.
Sessions are aimed at clear goals, whether that means short-term coaching or longer work on identity and life purpose. Motivational Interviewing techniques help people find their own reasons to change. Narrative Therapy offers a way to reframe painful stories and create a different path forward.
Laura emphasizes practical tools that fit day-to-day life. She helps clients practice skills between sessions and adapts techniques to fit real schedules. The overall aim is to reduce overwhelm and increase a person’s ability to manage challenges with confidence.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. In online visits this means the therapist reflects concerns and helps set goals that feel relevant to daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers clear exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives step-by-step tools you can practice between sessions.The right approach is often found together. The therapist will explore your goals, preferences, and life demands and then suggest methods to try. That collaborative process includes checking in on what helps and adjusting methods when needed so the work stays practical and realistic.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided practice. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief updates, homework review, or maintaining momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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