About Laura
Laura Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the ups and downs of relationships and family life. Her work also covers trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar disorder.
She listens first and learns what matters to each person. Sessions aim to clarify concerns, set small goals, and build useful skills for everyday life.
How Laura works
Laura blends practical tools with a calm, respectful presence so people feel understood and steady as they work through problems. Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods, including acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive strategies, and emotionally-focused work. That mix lets her match interventions to what a person needs most at the time.
She helps people practice new responses to stress, manage intense emotions, and improve close relationships. Parents and young adults often seek help for sleep, eating, body image, or parenting stress. She also addresses intimate issues like infidelity, jealousy, and problems that follow separation or divorce.
Laura provides straightforward guidance for coping with life changes and rebuilding a sense of self. Therapy sessions can include talking through feelings, learning small behavior changes, and trying practical exercises between meetings. She accepts international clients and works in English, offering flexible ways to meet for ongoing support.
Laura lists 8 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Laura uses elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people facing anxiety, depression, and life transitions. ACT focuses on clarifying values and learning to live with difficult thoughts while still taking meaningful action. CBT centers on identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing different behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also incorporates Client-Centered Therapy ideas, offering a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can be heard and better understand their feelings. Choosing the right approach is collaborative; the therapist works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for a full conversational session, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing short exchanges and homework reminders. These formats aim to make counseling more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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