About Laura
Laura Richardson is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience in Florida. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She welcomes questions and aims to make the first step feel manageable for worried parents and individuals.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the person in charge of their own goals. That means listening first, then helping someone find what fits their life.
How Laura works
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior. Sessions often focus on straightforward tools for calming anger, managing stress, and improving communication. She helps people work through family problems, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and relationship issues with clear strategies and simple steps.
Practical skills are paired with space to talk about painful events like trauma, abandonment, or loss. Her work includes attention to attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and family of origin concerns. She also supports people dealing with commitment struggles, codependency, guilt, and forgiveness.
Her approach aims to reduce overwhelm and build small, usable changes. Laura strives to make therapy collaborative. She helps clients set realistic goals, track progress, and adjust plans as needed.
The process is paced to match each person’s needs and daily life demands.
Laura lists 2 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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How client-centered and CBT work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, helping people set their own goals and find solutions that fit their life. This approach works well for issues that need empathy and steady support, like grief, family stress, or feelings of low self-worth.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thought patterns and behaviors. Sessions often include simple exercises, thought tracking, and action steps that can be practiced between meetings. CBT is useful for anxiety, anger, depression, and everyday coping challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which method or combination feels most helpful based on goals and preferences. That shared planning makes it easier to try techniques and adjust them over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while saving commute time. Phone sessions can be a good option when video isn't possible or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for quick check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between sessions. These formats offer flexibility and let people match the method to their schedule and comfort.
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