About Laura
Laura Pengelly is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 22 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people find practical ways forward when relationships, mood, or life stress feel overwhelming. She uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person.
Sessions look at how someone is thinking about a problem and what small changes could ease daily life. The work is collaborative and goal-focused, with attention to emotions and real-world steps that fit each person's life.
How Laura works
Laura has long experience helping people with relationship and family concerns as well as individual issues like anxiety, depression, bipolar mood disorders, grief, anger, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, intimacy-related struggles, and career stress. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family issues, communication problems, and young adult concerns.
Her clinical toolkit includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. Laura draws from these approaches to tailor short-term strategies and deeper explorations depending on the issue. Sessions are offered in English and are provided to clients located in Pennsylvania.
The format and pace of therapy are shaped by each person's goals, with attention to practical steps and clearer ways of coping.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Laura blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy with Solution-Focused ideas to meet a range of concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or mood swings. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on working through past hurt in manageable steps and building coping skills for trauma-related symptoms. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on specific goals and small changes that produce quick, real-world results.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and then choose an approach or mix of approaches that fit. That collaboration guides whether sessions focus on skill-building, storytelling and meaning-making, or short-term problem solving.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper therapeutic conversation and body language cues. Phone sessions are a solid option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or use written reflection when that feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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